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I would have thought that, except Mary did die in 1887, and, also it was the 1880's that they lived on Summer Lane. Also, the photo can be no-one else in the family, and they are definitely my ancestors. One thing that might confirm it is that I've read that poorer people weren't always that...

it's strange I don't recognise it as Upper Sutton st then, as we walked up there loads on the way to the Park to collect my cousins who lived on Upper Sutton st. I don't remember the houses having front gardens, and my cousins, aunt and uncle lived in what must have been a back to back with a...

I have worked my way through all of this thread as I was looking to see what the back to backs of Summer Lane were like. There was a 'mystery picture' posted by 'Two' (I think), which someone later said looked closest to the style of the Summer Road courtyards etc - and that might confirm...

was that the outdoor on the corner with the rounded step? I remember sitting on there eating that Gold(?) sweet stuff - which was like brown coconut tobacco with, I think, a Julie Scott (I'm fairly sure it was Scott) who was in my class at Burlington st (in the 60's), and I'm fairly sure that...

Yes, that's where I remember it in the 60's - the bomb peck part of it...used to go from Parliament st. via upper Webster St. to take the bottles back to the outdoor (corner, or nr. corner of Clarendon St.?) for pennies, or tuppence(?) and play on the bomb peck which I suppose was on Clarendon...

yes, I was thinking the same - it looks like Mary Street Balsall Heath to me (we lived near there for years) - with the Roman Catholic church of St. Martins (back view) on the right - and Highgate in the distance.

yes, thanks for posting these - I had not come across them when doing my research. Together they tell a lot of detail.

I just came across this while continuing my research... apologies if it has already been posted about on here or is well known... (please delete my post if this is the case :) ) https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/staff/friends/index.aspx from the page it looks interesting.

I would like to publicly thank Colin B. on here for all the help and information about my grandfather, (Martin - see above), that he has given me over the last few days via pm and e-mail. I am sorry if I posted on a thread that was about someone else - I saw the title of the thread - 'Royal...

This was my maternal granddad, Martin Brislin (lived at 49 Parliament St., Aston). He, and at least one of his brothers were in WW1 and he was at The Somme. Invalided out - shellshock, shrapnel and foot rot (from what mom can remember), sadly ended his days at Highcroft in about '65 as the...

Hi Kevin - you didn't have brothers called Darren, Robert and John and Peter, and a sister named Alison did you? Heanor Croft - Aston? Peter (and his wife Carol) lived in Nechells, Alison in Northfield.

he was my first boss - got a job, in '75, at another shop he owned, and his 70+ mom managed, over the road from his model shop at Stockland Green - it was called 'the Gift Shop' - he also owned Toyland next door to it, which I was seconded to in '76. I wonder if any of the staff that worked...

Mrs Hardy of Burlington St. school used to say (1960's) "Good, better, best, Never let it rest, Till your good is better, And your better best. enough to turn anyone into a perfectionist :(

this is an interesting article about the nuns, B'ham, and Jennifer Worth https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-02-19/did-call-the-midwife's-chummy-exist I loved this TV series - it was over far too quickly. It had such depth and was not embarrassed about words such as 'love' i.e. I think...

Hi Annie, lovely to find you posting on this forum. I was just about to start a new thread about your books (which I have discovered in the last 12 months), so I did a search first and found this thread. I've read quite a few of your books (am reading A Hopscotch Summer at the moment). I loved...

yes, I'm planning to buy this when the paperback is out in April, as she covered the area around Park Lane Aston at the same time (early 60's) as my mom had my younger brother and sister at home in Parliament St. (off Park Lane), so that must have been her patch. I read her earlier book, Twelve...

my dad, John Orr, [of Park Lane Gospel Hall, Aston], used to preach in the Bull Ring in the 50's [probably with other blokes from Park Lane]. Apparently someone wrote to the B'ham Evening Mail a few years ago [mom told me as she buys it], and wrote about witnessing an incident where someone was...

really good memory [I know it's been a while since you posted, but I hope you post again] I vaguely remember that floor in the Dolce Vita... you are so right about the cattle market thing..one reason I stopped going to clubs I remember that time..it may have been why I, and friends, didn't go...

Re: Birmingham Nightclubs of the past that must be what they called the Bali Hai section when I was going there...smaller bar and disco at the far end..more intimate... lol..much smaller dance floor

that made me smile [sorry, I know the post was from years ago]