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My friend Anne Aston went to Conway Road girls from about 1955 to about 1959. So probably a year younger than you. She can remember a friend Jean Franklin, who was from Trinidad. She lost touch with this friend and would like to make contact again. Please let me know if anyone remembers her.

thank you Mike, what a helpful bunch you are to a newbie!

I just did this, might try it out to do a bit of concentrated research!

Thank you so much for your advice and time Maurice. Would I be able to check out what info is on Midlands Historical Data without paying then pay to see individual records? Sounds like you think that's an avenue worth trying. I hadn't heard of it before.

Hi Maurice, did you see my post, with a bit more evidence from a thesis, placing. However I did not find all 26 of the references you found in the newspaper archive! I am accessing via find my past - would that be the same? I was mainly looking in Birmingham newspapers though. Many thanks for...

PS you are right he probably did have another trade, it's likely he wouldn't have relied on this for a living. What I would like is to locate some likely living descendants who may remember him or have some stories about him.

Hi, sorry Maurice I should have provided all the information I know about him. I attach a table, mostly of newspaper references, but also part of an interview done as part of a thesis on dulcimer c. 1974 (now mostly online). This places Charlie Biddle as living in Small Heath, and also as...

Dear Florence, I am researching some musical Biddles, there names were Charles and Ernie and I have references to them playing an instrument called a dulcimer around the time of the first world war. I wonder if these are in your friend's family? Charlie Biddle played at Bordesley Palace in 1915.

Hi I am doing research into players of the dulcimer in Birmingham. I have found references to Charles Biddle in newspaper records playing in and around Birmingham e.g. to wounded troops in 1917/18. I also have a photo of Ernie Biddle (see https://www.fred-woodley.org.uk/brum_people.html) at the...