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Yep on the Ohio front. Got this from wikipedia There are multiple places named Birmingham in the U.S. state of Ohio: Birmingham, Erie County, Ohio Birmingham, Guernsey County, Ohio

Glaciermint In "The Second Book of Brum (Aware Din Urea)" by Ray Tennant this is his definition of scrage: "Gravel Rash. Every boy and girl must have suffered this injury to knees, hands or elbows at some time before the age of ten" I know I did. If ever I came off my bike I'd end up...

Postie - I've just looked at the photo gallery on their website and I think your missus is spot on https://www.queensheadmeriden.co.uk/events.html

MaggieUK (and anyone else who is interested) there is a great little book Published by Birmingham Public Libraries called "The Story of Rednal" by R.E. Tupling. It may be hard to get hold of, I've had mine for years. It has no ISBN etc.. because it is one of those local history type books. It is...

PMC1947 - You and I were both talking about the same Rose and Crown, and I can see why you thought it might be that one. Over the years it has been a Coaching Inn, a private house and is now a hotel again (I think). Lloyd - I'd never have got you're answer in a million years but was fascinated...

Sorry Lloyd you've stumped me. Unless its something to do with the loss of the trees to the left as the area was built up or the redesign of that part of the road to take trams down a central reservation. It certainly doesn't look like that quaint country scene now

Don't think it's the Rose and Crown - that has always been set back from the road. It could be the Old Hare and Hounds on the Lickey Road near the old tram terminus.

It is hard to isolate only one favourite fact about Birmingham but I reckon our once being "the workshop of the world" just about clinches it. Such a pity we can't still say that, but we should still be proud of what our forefathers did - they made us too didn't they? Brummies are, in the main...

Not much more info on there I'm afraid. George was a bachelor - Mary a widow, both 'of this parish' The winesses were Alice (?) Phillips and ? Watson (can't read the Christian name).

Re: looking for Harry Lear Younghat - have checked deaths for qtr 4 1946 and no harry / henry lear I'm afraid.

I agree with you on this Kandor. Obviously we don't know the real story here but I do get frustrated when relatives try to blame agencies for failures when they themselves don't appear to have cared enough to check on their own family. It makes you wonder at their motives - maybe it's guilt...

On the 1891 and 1901 census Kate Embury is listed as being born in London. The only Kate Miller I can find born in London on freebmd is in Sept qtr 1850 - may be too early. Here is the freebmd link in case you don't have it. https://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Here is the London birth and...

This isn't exactly a reference book, more a visual capture of a point in time. A colleague brought this book into work the other day. I thought it was brilliant. The watercolours are by a local artist and there is a forward by Carl Chinn. Change in the Midlands: Urban and Industrial...

Herbert Austin established the Austin Motor Company at Longbridge in 1905. Not sure when it started to be refrerred to as Longbridge - I live in Rubery and most of us called it "The Austin" - long after the company name changed. In the 1970s and 1980s most of my family worked there in various...

Did mine in 1971. First with the cones in the school playground then off onto the local roads. Couldn't do that now - too much traffic. Don't know where the certificate went but I've still got the enamel badge they gave us for passing.

Ger22van. My Mom did the same as you once. Spent every penny then had to walk all the way back to Farm Street. She didn't alf cop it when she got home late. Luckily we live in Rubery now so not so far to walk bck home. She's 71 now but we still go walking over the Lickey's, it's our back yard.

Badger For someone like that we used to say "All fur coat and no knickers"

Got no Co-Op or Green Sheild stamps Postied so you'll have to take my bid of £20 in Sterling.

Looks like he did give the wrong birth date when he enlisted. At the start of WW1 I think the upper age limit was 38 - that would explain why he did it. Here are the 1901 census details. I think they are for your William as he is a brass worker and the right age. Warwickshire 1901 Census...

I found a William Holtham on the 1901 census in Brum - married and aged 25. This would have made him about 40 when he signed up for the war (if this is him). Men (and boys) lied about their age sometimes when they signed up - 40 may have been too old to enlist, so he may have given an incorrect...