Recent content by Tuppenny Rice

My great grandad Harry Walter Tibbatts was the schoolkeeper at Oldknow Road School and helped with the rescue and recovery. I'm told he was given a hessian sack to collect up some body parts. As I was told it, some bodies were never recovered. I can't find out any more information though, it...

A thread about the BSA in the blitz... https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/bsa-factory-in-blitz.48277/

Inspired by the thread from @Vivienne14 on Riley's Pianos, I recently took these photos as I cleared a family home and was going through all the sheet music. Amazing how many music shops there were (my relatives always lived in Small Heath and therefore shopped there and in town. There must have...

Yes that's my thread, I'm postitnote

Finally solved the mystery... sort of! George Horton was some kind of a cousin of my maternal grandmother Ethel Doris Bennett nee Ballinger (both beneficiaries of a cousin George Hefford). Ethel's husband's sister Rose and brother Ted lived in the house where the medals were found. The...

Reviving the thread following a visit to the office at the cemetery this week. The burials officers were very helpful in assisting me to find a grave from the 1890s. The lady explained to me that the letters on old grave deeds do NOT correspond one to one with the modern map numbers...

Resurrecting an old thread to say: I'm worried bab is dying out! Please tell me it's only being replaced by Love in the south of town? I live away and nearly cry when I come back and get called bab, but only younger people from the black country side seem to use it now [sobs]. Am I imagining this?

I've always remembered it as 'couldn't stop a pig up entry'. Is that right? It exists elsewhere as '.... pig in a passage'.

Got out the birth certificate and it was 19 Sherbourne Road - the Bon Accord. This is quite crazy - she now lives in a care home backing onto Bon Accord House!

Do you remember any Tibbattses or Birches?

I've just been reading a bit about immigration to the US via Ellis Island. They did check for TB and they did ask if you'd ever been in a workhouse. It's highly likely that Canada asked similar questions. I think the workhouse is the stronger theory, in the sense that he'd be checked for TB by...

Yes that's my point. You wouldn't do something that could shame your mother by causing rumours without some very good reason. It might be that some of his paperwork for immigration didn't fit together, eg if he'd been registered at the workhouse in her maiden name. Or maybe some issues with his...

Thankyou so much. It still exists dowellstrust.org.uk

That might indicate he was hiding something for immigration purposes. There must have been a very compelling reason for it, as it implies that he was illegitimate. People nowadays do it if their father is abusive and their parents divorce, but that wasn't the mindset then. I'd look up the...

A descendent of one of George's sisters has seen this thread and got in touch by PM! Sadly too late to give the medals, but great news. I've shared all the info I have. I will update in due course if they are OK to share info.