Recent content by pauljon

Thank you that sounds a familiar name, somewhere in the back of my mind I have heard her mention it.

My friend used to live in Stud Lane in the 1950 after moving from a back to back house in a street off Summer Lane We have been friends for 77 years and she has just passed away. We began our friendship in St. Chad's Nursery Brearley Street at the age of 3. We both went into infants and junior...

I remember the screens and the alter being very far away. I got married in St. Chads in 1962 and the screens were there. I moved to Yorkshire to live and it was years later when I returned to St. Chads it was all changed. No longer were the screens there, it was much brighter and lighter.

Thank you, but I do not have a date of death for him, hence trying to find him, no living relatives to ask about him. He died many years before I was born.

Where can I find a death record of my grandfather who was admitted to Rubery Hospital in 1905. I believe he died in the hospital before 1930.

Both myself and my brother Brian were married in St. Chads cathedral. Brian in September 1961 and myself in October 1962 when all the alterations to Bath Street were beginning to take place. Having to negotiate getting out of taxi and avoiding trenches in the footpath.

I remember Racket Court being a lodging house, this was in the 1950's when I was a child. My sister met her future husband who lodged there. I remember my elder siblings talking about the Kenny family. Sadly they are no longer with us. The only shop I remember was Hatton's tea shop. Apart from...

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Unfortunately Bertram's records were destroyed, like many others when the offices were flooded. He lived in Hanley Street off Summer Lane, so maybe he enlisted in his nearest local one.

My Uncle was in the 2/6 Warwickshire regiment and was killed in action on the19th July 1916 at the Battle of Fromelles. I have quite a bit of information about him but have never discovered where he enlisted. I only discovered him when doing family research. Nothing was talked about him, he...

Not sure about where the photograph was taken, I lived in Bath Street and I remember watching that procession. There were crowds of people lining the streets. I do not remember many houses in Shadwell Street, they were mainly small factories that had once been houses. my sister worked in one...

I found the virtual tour of the cathedral when I was researching St. Chads cathedral. A lot different from when I used to attend the church. Going to mass when I was a child every Sunday at 9.30 am, making my first communion and getting confirmed. I got married there and my first child was...

Lots of memories about St. Chads School. I remember going from the infants to the junior section of the girls school which was upstairs. I was 7 and then when I reached 10 the schools became co- educational and went to Shadwell Street school. Then back to the senior school when I was 11...

Looking at the photographs make it seem like yesterday that my older sister took me screaming and kicking through the infants entrance to the nursery school which I attended from the age of 3 - 5. I then joined in the infants until the age of 7. At the ripe of aged 7 transferred upstairs to the...

What an interesting story. I have been in contact with a very old friend of mine and he knew the family better than I did. Frank Onions and, his wife Cissie, had four children, Rita, Ken, Valerie and another son who he couldn't remember the name of, lived next door to the pub. My friend is a...

Like the photograph, trying to see where about it was taken. I remember there were gates in Little Shadwell Street and we sometimes went in there, it was like a yard, this obviously was the back of the pub we used to see the barrels of beer. I think there were two houses at the side of the pub...