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I have no contact to the Penfold Factory other than driving past it on Bromford Lane many times. Today, I have been on a tour of the building that replaced the factory. It's now a nursing home, it's been open about 12 months. The wife of a friend of mine is to go there for a few weeks respite...

I revisited Handsworth Cemetery yesterday and with the help of one of the office girls I was able to locate the patch of ground my grandfather, James Rogers - d1928, is buried beneath. Of course there's no headstone marking the grave but counting from surrounding headstones I was able to locate...

Further to the above, the demolition work for the building of the new homes is well under way. Today I was chatting to an 89 year man whilst watching the work in progress for the removal of the petrol tanks from the old Forge Garage. He told me that he remembers the Smithy occupying the site on...

My cousin and I went to Salisbury yesterday to look for the grave of our grandfather, W J Parsons. I had been told the foliage had been cleared from over the grave and we had a mapo showing the approximate location. It could have been a better day to travel down the M5 in driving rain but we got...

Thanks Brian. I haven't had time to go back for another look yet but I did phone the office again. The lady I spoke told me the graves were numbered head to toe then back to the start for the next row. Although my grandfather is in a public grave, she was able to tell me that the particular...

Thanks for that Brian. I was a bit pushed for time this morning or I would have gone back to the office and asked. I will ask next time I go. It would make things easier if all the existing stone memorials had the reference number on and not the occasional one, but then that wouldn't be so...

I visited Handsworth Cemetery this morning in the hope of locating the graves of my grandfather and grandmother, James & Ann Louise Rogers, from the reference numbers kindly supplied by Suzanne 3 weeks ago. Unfortunately they were buried separately in public graves and are unmarked. My...

Hi Jim. I hope there is a way to bring this petiton to the sight of the jobsworths in the Council House.

I have just made it 3537. Three generations of my grandfathers and their sons, brothers & cousins were gun barrel makers in Birmingham Gun Quarter. The proposed changing of the name is a disgrace to their memory and the memory of thousands of men, women & children who also worked there to help...

I grew up in Coplow Street, Ladywood. I recall Carl Chinn, some years ago, mention on his Sunday Radio WM programme that some of the road/streets around Ladywood were named after the area near Warwick, which had connections to the Ryland family. Lousia Ryland donated the land or money, or both...

Thanks Pollypops & Lindyloo for your replies. My grandfather would have been 71 the day after he died. He was buried in Devizes Road cemetery which is on the outskirts of Salisbury, about one mile from the mental hospital where he died. He died on 11th May and was buried on 17th May 1949. His...

Lost & Found I am pleased to tell you that I have located the burial place of my grandfather William Joseph Parsons. However, I am not so pleased to tell you I had the information that led us to the answer about 17 years ago. My uncle, his youngest child, had given me some notes he'd written...

Hi Pat I lived at No 6 The Shrubbery, Coplow Street. Coplow Street is parallel with Dudley Road and ran between Inknield Port Road and Northbrook Street. These days it's blanked off and you have to turn down Barford Road to Dudley Road. Living at No 7 Shrubbery was a family named Trevor...

Hi Lindyloo Thanks for you looking for my grandfather. I called in at Salisbury, London Road, cemetery a few years ago on my way back from the south coast. They couldn't find him in their records there or other local cemeteries. His wife, my grandmother, was buried at Handsworth cemetery in...

He certainly did Sylvia. He must have been a bit of a lad though. He enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in Birmingham on 22 Jan 1900. He served for 2 years in South Africa then was on reserve until August 1914. Whilst in South Africa he was jailed for 56 days for "Disobeying Lawful Commands". I'd...

Thanks for trying Suzanne. I'll find him one day, fingers crossed. Mike

I have just carried out a "free" search at the National Burial Index in FMP for the burial of William Joseph Parsons, b1878, d1949 and I only got one hit. A W J Parsons was buried in Morval, Cornwall. I can't believe this is my grandfather as I can't see him being buried there. I know of no...

Hi Brian It certainly was great news. Thanks for the information on Handsworth Cemetery. I went to Handsworth Technical school in the late 1950s unaware I was close to my paternal grandparent's graves. Mind you I was unaware of them full stop then. Thanks to you all for your help. Mike

Hi Wendy & Suzanne. To say I'm thrilled is an understatement. I'm overjoyed. Thank you both very much. You are both stars. I will take a ride to Handsworth soon. My maternal grandmother was buried at Handsworth in 1951. I can visit her at the same time. My paternal grandparents both died long...

Hi Wendy May I take you up on your wonderful offer to look at the Key Hill records? I know my grandparents lived in the Spring Hill area most of their lives and were both living in Stour Street when they died. There's a chance they may have been buried at Key Hill. James Rogers; died 13th...