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I suspect that only Astoness may be able to help with this as it is her back yard. I bought a CD of the 1845 trade directory but Page 84 is blank - I can't believe the page I actually want is missing! Of course, it includes Villa Street - I wanted to see if I could find anything before John...

If only I had a database!!

Thanks Mike I didn't know about the book so just bought it from https://historywm.com/podcasts/forging-ahead where Simon Briercliffe also has a podcast.

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You can listen to my Black Country twang at : https://open.spotify.com/show/19TXDwVjOVn9ia4YPdUdLK

The little blue water jug was from M&B

Thanks Mike, just found my 1938 edition - don't know what I have got!! Yes, Walter Broughton was listed. This is, however, useful. If Joseph Willis had succeeded Joseph Smith in March 1937 [verified date] then he probably would have shown up in the 1938 directory. The fact that he is not...

If it is possible, a moderator can delete all of my messages as many contain links to my website. None of these will work at the moment as I took the site down for re-coding and image protection. Some info on this topic is on my homepage. But, yes, delete all if that stops dead links etc.

Unfortunately, I do not have the 1938 trade directory for Birmingham, a bit of a loss in this case. I have the 1935 and 1936 directories in which Harry Hill is listed at the Villa Tavern. The 1937 directory records Joseph Alfred Smith as licensee. The 1939 directory has Horace Noel Smith as...

Thanks Steve - what is your full name and your brother - just to type correct credit and acknowledgement etc.

Yes, Joseph Willis can be added to the list but not this list as the post-1939 list I typed up is complete. I estimate mid-late 1930s but the licence register for that period was, I am told by the magistrate's clerk, destroyed. Is it OK to use your pic - unlike the wild west of FB I always ask...

If, like me, you are concerned about the declining number of insects in the garden, then I suggest creating a different kind of fence. I pulled out a couple of rotten panels, built a wood frame, and filled it with log cuttings. As I was building it a ladybird moved in for the winter. I was thrilled.

I have been given some Carl Chinn press cuttings which may be of interest to forum members. Please note the cuttings are not dated and detailed so I cannot provide a correct reference source. These will be copyright Carl Chinn or the newspaper which, I presume is the Evening Mail? I have only...

I'm hopeless with mushrooms. Anybody know what these are in my arboretum ... The white mushrooms look edible but I am too much of a wuss to risk cooking them! The orange variety certainly look like they would end up with a visit to A&E!

By the way, Lyn - this isn't your dad is it? I keep hoping that one of my window cleaner pics will be him !!

Well, between some cycling and watching cycling [Vuelta a España] I have been badgering away on this building. I had my doubts about the place and never like to publish anything I have not seen for myself. However, I have found enough evidence to show that this building was erected by Hutton's...

Looking at the pic in Post #8, despite the proliferation of glass, there are elements of the building that may point to a former brewery. The projecting hoist/lift for taking grains to the top of the building. Also the additional roof canopy for ventilation of a malt store? Anyway, here is part...

Hi Mike, I had not used the NLS overlay before - quite enlightening. This appears to put the building on the site of former cottages in Rob Roy Yard. The boundary between these sites and Yew Tree Terrace is the constant in this overlay - the boundary lines still following 19th century patterns...

Further ... re pic in Post #8, the entry to the left of the bloke on the ladder led to Rob Roy Yard. This was between the bedstead works and the Saltley Brewery and is marked as such on a map surveyed in 1888. Trade directories of this period have the bedstead works at 27-9 whilst the brewery is...

Can I put a spanner in the works here. I have not researched this in detail but in my humble opinion the brewery is the building BELOW the words Brewery on the above map extract. This was the earlier brewery referred to above.