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Re: Bartley Green-schools-cutler Family Hi Carol, The photo you uploaded of Alfred and his mother is superb!! The History Group is currently building up a file of those buried in the churchyard in Bartley Green and would like to add this. Have you any objection? If you could scan a copy of...

Hi Laura, I can tell you that there were no wells or ponds in the vicinity of the wall near Warston Avenue. The fields where Warston and Upper Close are situated were known in 1883 as Middle Ox Leasow and Far Ox Leasow. More likely is that the wall is damaged by roots of trees or dare I say...

Re: Bartley Green-Families I'm really enjoying these threads as they help to build up a social history of the district. I believe some of you have made contact through our web site (now shortened to www.bgdhg.co.uk) and the additional info. displayed here helps us to pinpoint a particular area...

Thanks Mike, a pity we couldn't download to help with our WW2 project with local schools!! Fascinating nevertheless and gives an understanding of how the AA battery operated.

As my name implies, I am a member of the Bartley Green local history group. We have been asked by the company that now occupies, some, of the site previously occupied by Birmetals if we can assist with any information, stories or photos of Birmetals. The company will be celebrating their 20th...

Many thanks Chris for your help. Staffs site is brilliant but was unable to leave a message as the 'underlined' numbers (to avoid spam) weren't there! Armed with all the new info., I will see what we can find. Hopefully when people get to hear of our interest they will come forward with some...

Have been reading past messages with interest but unfortunately no-one has mentioned the Home Guard in and around Bartley Green. Does anyone have any information, or where I can obtain, on the Home Guard at Stonehouse Lane and Genners Lane. Maureen

Thanks Mike, I will see what I can find at the library when I next visit. Hopefully someone will know something about Ken Taylor who featured quite frequently in the magazines. Maureen

I wonder if anyone can tell me when this company closed or where they moved to. The company was the official photographers for Church magazines in Bartley Green. A man named Ken Taylor also took photos for the same. It would be terrific if we could locate the originals! Many thanks. Maureen

Would be very interested to learn where you obtained the photo of the Cali Inn? We only have a tattered newspaper clipping showing the swans outside!

If you use the link to PHOTOS and then select California. Which Woodgate Valley did your relatives live on? Woodgate (Woodgate Lane), Woodgate Valley South or Woodgate Valley North (Quinton). Regards Maureen

Hi Jean, The riding stables were owned by Les Parsons as you probably know but they didn't cover Nonsuch Farm land. We believe that as well as land at the rear of the cottages in Stonehouse Lane he also had a field further along Clapgate Lane where the factories now stand. Les sadly died a few...

If you are talking about Bartley Reservoir, then the farm submerged was GENNERS FARM, there were also a couple of cottages.

I went to Tinkers Farm Infant School from 1950-52 then we moved.

I remember the maroon coloured long Co-op van that used to come into our road weekly as it was then I got my bar of chocolate. I can't remember my mum's or my divi number but I still have my book with about £8 in it. It will give my grandchildren a laugh in later years. I often went with my...

Finished packing. Thanks for the Map Mike. However, would point out that Hillcrest School is where the brickworks were and Coalpit Farm. Nonsuch Farm's 'driveway' is now Sommerfield Road leading off Stonehouse Lane. Another entrance was the road to the right of this passed the houses in...

An old map (1883) does show a pool at the rear of Nonsuch Farm towards the boundary line of what is now Gravel Bank. However, this may well have been filled in by the 1900s. Will keep you informed of anything we come across that helps in pinpointing just where on the farm the photos were...

From research we know the RSPCA put retired/ill horses on what was Nonsuch Farm. I wonder if those horses are the same that are in the water. Will need to carefully look at the photos to see if we can pinpoint any landmarks. I have emailed the Farmhouse photo to the man who collected his eggs...

John, I am speechless. After 10 years we finally get to see what the farm looked like! Before I forget I found paperwork relating to that old friend - he said "that he used to play football with a lad called Sid Thatcher whose family ran a farm. Sid went to George Dixon's School". Jim was born...

It's so good to 'meet' up with someone whose family were at Nonsuch Farm. Your surname was mentioned several years ago by an old neighbour and friend Jim Ford (would have been 83) who went to George Dixon School and played football. I need to find the relevant paper but he said his friend was...