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Many thanks, this is a helpful insight. Sheila

Thanks Janice, I had been looking at severe depression being the melancholia diagnosis, though what I have read there has to be some action from the sufferer to cause actual death. Her death certificate does add, 'no post mortem necessary', so I suspect it may have been suicide, and that would...

What a find, thank you for posting it. Yes, hats, what are they all holding, it looks like rolled up mats, lino? My grandmother died of melancholia according to her death certificate, I'm wondering if that is a euphemism for something else. Would anyone know of how I could research this, as...

Thank you Janice for your post re Tudor Grange, and the Solihull Heritage organisation, for that has led to me a place to offer the album and other phots and documents. They went off today, so if all goes well they will be available at The Core, Touchwood, Tracey Williams has been my contact...

Yes, here they are, I didn't realise they needed to be saved, thanks for the tip.

Some more I hope, sorry they are fuzzy, I had to photo the photos, etc, there are more to come if interested. Sheila

Hello, My first attempt at scanning....from left to right, Dorothy Bird, my great aunt, Lady Eleanor, my great grandmother, Sir Alfred, great grandfather, Eleanor Bird my grandmother. I will attempt the album photos but the album is a substantial beast, and they will come one by one, thumb...

Hi, This is one of my many limitations...however, I will get some tech help, but it may take a while. Sheila

Thank you superdad3, this is very helpful. I will contact the relevant archivists and hope they can take the items. Sheila

Hello, my maternal great grandfather was Sir Alfred Bird, and grandfather Hemon Bradley, the industrialist. I'm the last in the line of this strand of the Birds, so I would like some guidance and what to do with a small amount of items that were left to my mother by her aunt Dorothy Bird that...