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There is a James Yates marrying a Sarah QUICK on 03 JAN 1790 in St Martin's, Birmingham, Warwick, England. It is a possibility for you.

"Whilst On His Beat , The Asian Man Lived By The ALLYEBONE Family House So I Would Say Inspector Will,Went ItoThe Great Grotto For His Swift Half That Was The Best Pub In The Sqaure Mile Of The Area, ASTONIAN " I think there were 3 Atkinson public houses in Camden Street also, The Warstone...

Was one the "Ritz" in York Road, Kings Heath? dibs

Wouldn't the nearest police station been the one at the entrance to Summerfield Park?

Greatly appreciated, must be one and the same methinks. Coplow Street is in Ladywood ! ! ! but I was told they sold up in Summer Lane just before the outbreak of war so it is possible they moved over to Ladywood in 39. Kind regards. Dibs.

Would SKS with access to Kelly's around the mid 1930s to 1940 please be kind enough to look for a fish and chip shop run by Thomas and Leah (aka Rose) STANLEY in Summer Lane please. It would be greatly appreciated. Ta, Dibs

"I think we used to go on holiday to Devon in the early 1950's from Snow Hill." You could also go from New Street to Devon, I think it was the "Devonian" that ran from Bradford to Paignton, via Bristol if my memory serves me well ! ! !

Hi Mike. What a lovely surprise to open up those images, thank you. I was born in George Street West, the bottom end by Pitsford Street, and Hockley GWR was one one of our playgrounds. I left in 1961, and missed the demolition and rebuilding. Many summer nights I used to drift off to sleep...

Found the views of Hockley Goods Depot images. If anyone is interested there are 92 images available on the link https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/hockley_station.htm

PMC, cheers for those two images, the one I had from Rail Around Birmingham & the West Midlands Thank you. Now PMC, the other one, the photograph taken of the rail bridge going over Icknield Street, now the painting by...

Great images. Thank you to both Mikes. I had a few great images of Hockley Station and goods yards until my PC a a Benny and dumped the folder :-( I will have to search the internet again for them. I still have a couple relating to war damage in 1940. Many thanks both, I know there is a...

Just wondering if anyone has a photograph of Hockley GWR railway station they would be kind enough to post please, would love to see one of the frontage taken from Icknield Street. Kind regards Dibs

My father Henry Begley worked at the Birmingham Mint as a metal roller during the war, as did my mother (Mary Kathleen Cruxton) , her step father and mother (Henry & Alice Bullock) and Alice's two brothers Stanley & Ivor Griffin, whilst Henry Bullock was too old for combat the three men were...

If you want to know why the British were there "Oil" :-) Feb 15, 1919 A note in which the French government formally accepted the amendment of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, according to which Mosul would have been under French rule and Palestine under a special international regime. French...

If you google "Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry in Egypt" You get the following (Amongst other information) 2/4th - France and Flanders 26 May 16. Egypt and Palestine 2 June 19 to May 20. So by the look of it he had only just been...

Hi Steve Never found out who Bills mother was though. Anyone out there know?. Not sure about this, but maybe it was Carl Chinn that said the expression came from the first world war when mothers/wives got the dreaded telegram telling them that their loved one was lost/missing in action, hence...

https://www.ted.rudge.btinternet.co.uk/pubs.htm https://www.ted.rudge.btinternet.co.uk/id14.htm not a good overall image of the pub though sadly

Astonian, Somewhere I have seen other other images of the Grotto with people outside, not sure what site it was though, will give it some thought and if I come up with anything I will let you know. Goodnight. dib44

Thank you to Mac Joseph for this image of the grotto.

It is an amazing photo, pleased you posted it, as Wendy's photo's too, used to live at the top of Rose Hill (ish) and often walked into Rednal, at one time the old terminus building was turned into a fish restaurant, it was (or still is) a Chinese restaurant, cannot believe how things have...