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Jim, Yes, you an only legally be on one voting list and if they were on the Sheffield one, that would account from their absence in Birmingham. Maurice :cool:

The front wall and the right hand extension also look relatively new, Janice. Maurice :cool:

James, He could have been visiting or arrived after October the previous year, or simply failed to fill in the registration form. At that age he had liability to serve as a juror. Maurice :cool:

Agreed, Mike, but this was only a mechanism for voting & serving on a jury, not for paying the rates, and many people renting paid their rates direct to their landlord as an addition to the rent. Unless you were heavily into politics, you simply didn't care were you had a vote or not. At the...

James, From FindMyPast, Vera Jessie Brooks was living at 19 Passey Road in 1928, no other person at that address. Both Vera's were living at 234 Knowle Road in 1929 and in 1930. When it comes the Charles Deane - there are two - Charles Harald Deane & family living in Hobson Road, Selly Oak, and...

Doing my best to survive, Paul & looking forward to the day :) Maurice :cool:

My own father was one of the manymen that signed up at Curzon Hall in WW1. The unattractive appearance of modern Birmingham is the sheer height of the buildings i9n what seems like an effort to look like New York - bland with empty disinteresting spaces of nothing in between each one. Maurice...

Lisa, Let's keep it in the same thread for now - the mods will separate later if they think fit. The Bill Dargue is generally reliable:- https://billdargue.jimdofree.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-k/kitwell/ Maurice :cool:

And here's that marriage. Maurice :cool:

Interesting, Pedro, as there is an Aris' Gazette entry in November 1824 for the sale of goods from Kitwell House, residence of the late Thomas Webb, but it fails to mention his occupation. But why buried in St Paul, Hockey? Find-a-Grave has St Paul's M I s on Family Search but fails to find a...

Hi Lisa, Welcome to the Forum. I can confirm two sources show that Thomas was buried on 22 September 1824 at St Paul, Hockley. I don't have access to the BMSGH MI Transcriptions, but possibly another member has. As for births in the area in 1750, familysearch.org has two in Warwickshire and one...

I see that late member & drummer Eddie Haynes mentions them too :- https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/birmingham-jazz-alive-well.44834/page-6#post-545610 Maurice :cool:

Vic, Back in the late 1950s many local musicians used Hollick & Taylor to make records. I think my brother-in-law in Bournemouth may well have a few. I never got to use the place and left Brum early in 1961, so I can't tell you anything about the inside as it was then. The records I have seen...

Jim. Great to find so much detail about your father's service as many others know their father's regiment and perhaps unit, but little else. Excellent stories to be proud of. Maurice :cool:

The £7 Dryer in #1416 - was that one of those Flatley things or a tumble dryer. I seem to recollect that the Flatleys were around £3.50, but have no idea of the price of a tumble dryer in those times as we were never rich enough to buy one! Maurice :cool:

The favourite one here, of course, is dropping mobile phones into sea water. Most of the phone shops have small ultrasonic baths big enough for a phone, but success rate is only about 50% so I am told, and getting spare parts during the pandemic was almost impossible. Another good reason to not...

Carol, Coca Cola is good for cleaning coins, so I shudder to think what it will do to the printed circuit board tracks, apart from the fact that it conducts electricity and thus will short out sensitive components. Someone with a large ultrasonic cleaning bath may be able to undo some of the...

And that was the second daughter of that name, the earlier one being Hannah chr 28 Feb 1786, bur 8 March 1786. Peter Gibson married Rachel King 23 March 1782 and other children were Hannah chr 10 April 1787, Thomas chr 14 Jan 1791, Ann chr 12 January 1796 all at Aston Cantilow. Maurice :cool:

Eric, How about this christening at Aston Cantilow on 25 September 1788:- Sept 25th Peter son of Peter & Rachel Gibson, Little Alne Maurice :cool:

There's a Stambermill Viaduct about one mile east of Stourbridge, but that is not Warwickshire. I am really clutching at straws here :) Maurice :cool: