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Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to this amazing thread over the years, and an extra special big thanks to Vivienne for recreating this topic, following the loss of the old one. I too went to Kingsthorne Juniors. I was born in Dec 65 and moved into the Hare & Hounds pub with my...

Strange, I also have a cousin called Richard Holyoak, and I sometimes work in Somerville Road, Sutton Coldfield.

I would have loved to have spoken with some distant relatives for medical reasons, regarding any hereditary conditions. How old was your uncle Richard back then, when you worked at the store?

Wow, apparently my grandmother is alleged to have had a relationship with a Greengrocer called Mr Sparrow many years ago, and as a result, my mother was born. It's a very long winded story, but back in the day, my family lived in Burlington Street and my mother's gran used to own a coal yard...

Hi Roberta, I see your reasoning but sadly due to an unfortunate event, the Mother cut off all contact with the Father and refused all forms of support. She also refused to provide any and all details about the subjects Father. It is only now, after the Mothers passing, that other family members...

Thanks Smudger, every lead is a possibility, I'll start digging along Gravelly lane.

Hi Wam, apologies, it was my mistake. He is believed to have been born around 1923 and I have now corrected the error in the OP. I only have the first name of Michael, which as you say could well have been Anlgicised. I have searched ancestry but no joy whatsoever. I have located an address...

Thanks Lyn, your support is appreciated as always and I hope I find you well.

Thanks Nick, I totally got the year of birth wrong. :)

Hello fellow B.H.F members, it's been a while, but I could really do with some help here. I'm trying to trace a lady's late Father, the identity of whom was not known until recently. (i.e no name of Father on birth certificate). I have scant information to go on, other than the following: The...

I used to find the majority of the pipe pieces around the edges of the bowling green but there were others scattered all around the large gardens. I'm talking about hundreds of different pipe bowls and stems, with some of the bowls being quite ornate and some shaped like faces. I never found a...

Edit ...Sorry Viv, you said 1974 which is about right. I was a mere 9 years of age haha

So there is a Los Angeles link. I'm sure the man I spoke to had links or even worked for the department at some stage. We may never know, but amazing to recall that night. Were you there with them Viv when they came into to the pub? I know my Mother Joanne was most excited to welcome them over...

Hey Viv, we had to use Radio Rentals to hire our first enormous Colour Tv inside a huge wooden sliding door piece of furniture with a long cable on the remote control hehe. Atlantic Road to me at that time was where the posh people lived Viv. I used to have a schoolmate who lived there, she...

For anyone interested and for future posterity, here a layout guide to when I lived at the pub. I also remember that the Bungalow next door always had a beautiful back garden, unlike ours which was huge and difficult to maintain especially as we didn't even have a law mower. I do recall...

Does anyone remember a girl called Paula who also had a younger sister who lived in the houses backing onto the rear of the pub and the bowling green? I can't remember if she went to Kingsthorne or not. She would be 50 something now.

We may even have some photos somewhere of their visit. I'm sure I've seen one or two in the family vaults.

I must have known your Mom Viv, I used to go into that shop all the time, spending my Dads stash of silver 5 pences and sixpenses. Can you remeber the LAPD link? The one gentleman gave me an LAPD tie bar which I still have and which I wore throughout my service as a Policeman.

Oh my Vivienne, I remember than night quite well, it was the first time I had ever met real true life Americans lol. They were so warm and friendly and they even had plenty of time to talk to us young scamps :0) We were sitting in the Bar on the right hand side as you would enter the pub. They...

It's been a long time since I saw this thread and sadly my Mother passed a few years ago now and she is deeply missed. Mum told me that that my Gran, Cassandra Whitton / Beeston had an affair with a Mr Sparrow and she believes that she was the end result as my Mothers other Sisters had a...