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Many thanks for the information. You have solved a question that has long remained in our family. Here is my mother Florence Wragg's...

Here's a picture, not sure the year...

I was working for Brooklyn Garage when Aldridge Road was widened to accommodate buses and the canal bridge removed, the garage belonged...

Hi The photo from Yardley was interesting little more than country lane. When I moved to Great Barr in 1951 ish the Brooklin farm was...

Oh my goodness, what a terrible experience.

A bit of a discrepancy between the mmn listed on Albert jnr's birth reg. (Taylor) to his mother's (Leah) surname listed on her marriage...

I'm sure I've mentioned it before but my 3 x g grandad's brother emigrated to Australia (2 children died on the voyage), then to...

Yes, for someone has taken the extraordinary voyage and it is truly that. I was fortunate to have my sister here. Your gr great aunt had...

My g. greataunt born 1851 Dudley emigrated to New South Wales age 35 with husband and children in 1886. She has many descendants there...

So nothing has really changed, this stuff is still going and most think it’s a new trend! God bless your grandad :cool:.

She wasn't the oldest either, the difference between the eldest and youngest is 56 years. My nan was my grandad's much younger second wife.

“Some of the large party which attended the Birmingham Press Ball at the Grand Casino, Birmingham, last night in aid of the Lord Mayor...

Some info here, not sure if they'll be of any help...

Two of my much older cousins married each other and emigrated to Victoria, Australia in the 1960s with 3 of their siblings. I don't how...

My brother and his family (a wife and 6 kids) went to Australia in 1970 we kept in touch, he came home a few times and I visited them a...