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I wonder if anyone has a photo of these shops around the time my father started to work there as Manager of the Greengrocery shop in 1949 / 1950 or perhaps later over the following 15 years ? I am re-doing my parents 50th anniversary book for the rest of the family (both parents now dead)...

Can someone tell me where the Open air swimming pool was in Small Heath around 1930's. Was it in Small Heath park ? Are there any other photos of it ? When my father got married in 1935 the men went for a swim in the afternoon (Well said dad, it was something to do !) I think this might...

Many thanks for providing the photos of Whites and Thompsons and the advice about searching for others. I did have a really good photo of Thompsons, with the staff and some customers standing outside, showing the open displays of fruit and veg, a wonderful display including about 50 bunches of...

I am new to this site and am not sure how to post a query or question - so please re-direct me if this is not it ! I wonder if anyone has photographs of the following : Whites Removals in Oliver Street, Birmingham - their vans or premises - 1935 - 1945 time. Edit - there is now a separate...

I am new to this site and am not sure how to post a query or question - so please re-direct me if this is not it ! I wonder if anyone has photographs of the following : Whites Removals in Oliver Street, Birmingham - their vans or premises - 1935 - 1945 time....... I am putting together a...

My mother used to say something which sounded like 'oil-tot', used for example in : 'Jimmy is in his oil-tot playing in that water'. So it meant something like a person really enjoying what they were doing. I have never heard it used by anyone else or anywhere else and have often wondered...

Thank you very much for the two posts in answer to my queries about sending a private message and attaching a document. I have (hopefully) sent a private message to macqueen and can then send direct what I have on Kettle's steel houses.

I have had a play to see about sending a private message but didn't get far. Then tried to upload a file to attach with this, again didn't get far ! Not that clear or user friendly it seems ! I had saved a Word document with some information gleaned from searching online which I was...

Where do you fit in to the Kettle FT then ? Or are you researching the steel houses for a different reason than FH ? I cannot say I have a lot of information on John Kettle, and I was told by someone that John Kettle could not have been related to 'my' Kettle family, but I have yet to prove...

Well yes ! That is one thing that, for many years, made me unsure of the tale about William Twist and William Aston being one and the same person. Though I have different copies of the certs with different signatures. But someone on Roots website very kindly checked the original copies of...

I have posted two entries under surnames A and T (for Aston and Twist) searching for information on my g.grandfather who was known as William Aston but it was then discovered some years ago, he had changed his name in 1868 from Twist, although I know believe he was Aston originally. However...

Thank you for your encouragemnt - I appreciate it. It is so fascinating and i have discovered so much about the Twist family (and Kettles who married into the Twist family) over these past months, even though I have been doing researching on William (or trying to) for many years, off and...

Did you get my reply to your post about the birth certs for William etc ? I cannot see it here and I posted it before replying to pjmburns post

Thank you for trying to help anyway. I keep thinking Iwill give up on it and go and do something useful, like digging the garden, but then some other little 'nugget' of info is discovered, and I get hooked in again ! I did begin to think I might be wasting my time gaining so much info on...

Thank you for your reply and yes he married Andora Beards in 1868 and for years I was looking for him with those details and never found anything I felt confident in, then some years ago an elderly Aston grand-daughter of William showed us marriage cert for William Twist with a father Joseph...

I am a recent registered member to this website / Forum so hope you will make allowance if I do not post correctly / appropriately. I have been trying to establish where my great grandfather fits into my FT for more than 30years but although I have made huge progress in some areas, I still do...