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Eric, I've just scanned the British Library for that name between 1791 and 1841, and the only five English entries are for winners of fruit and vegeatble competitions in Birmingham in 1836 & 1837. Unfortunately, they just give Peter Gibson as a winner in particular classes and no other details...

Vic, Interesting stuff nevertheless, you just miniaturised it! I used to set up distributors overseas for small British manfacturers. One of my customers used to make football tables and in addition used to take on a few cabinetmaking contracts. When they went bust, they still had a contract...

Fascinating, Vic, and a nice momento of your working days. Did you originally start in modelmaking or did you progress to it from another trade? I spent 12 years in cabinetmaking (late 1960s & the 1970s), but sort of accidentally moved into it from being an export agent. That's obviously a niche...

Eric, I presume you are referring to the Peter who married a Harriet from Staffordshire and who was living in Birmingham on the 1841 & 1851 censuses and states that he was born in Warwickshire? If so, nothing in the Midlands on FindMyPast either. Nearest being Dartford, Kent, with a couple of...

Mike, It must have gone fairly recently as the name is still held by the original registrar and has not yet been released back into the pile of free domain names. I guess they are hoping to sell it for a nice profit. If OldMohawk sees this, he might be able to retrieve some of the old site from...

Mike, Google has a number of articles about Hamilton Young Castner and James Fern Webster, and a good image of the latter in a local magazine here:- https://solihulllife.org/2019/11/01/james-webster/ Of course, finding much evidence on the ground over a hundred years later might be quite...

Definitely summer music & a very memorable film. Maurice :cool:

Smudger, Our village taverna charged us a total of 37 euros for a meal for four including starters, large main meals, large side dish of cougettes with cheese, an extra plate of chips, a plate of cheese pies, and a variety of fruit and ice creams, a bottle of beer, half a litre of good wine...

Richard / Pete, Therein lies the problem. I had several lots of hearing aids over the years, and each ones were wound up until they reached feedback point and I replaced them. That was at considerable expense and like all aids they amplify everything, including the chatter and noise you don't...

Pete, I might watch the occasional foreign film on YouTube, but I find subtitles tiring and you miss a lot of the action. When they used to stream the Grand Met operas locally, that was a bit better because I generally knew the plot and the libretto was not really of that much interest. I feel...

I don't watch TV - can't understand half of the dialogue due to my deafness - but I occasionally look in here to see it there are any "dirty stopouts" as my grandmother would call them. :) Maurice :cool:

Not really my cup of tea, Chris, but there's room for all varieties. Thanks for your input. Maurice :cool:

Perhaps sanitization would be a more appropriate word. Maurice :cool:

My class size from 1947 to 1952 at Moseley Grammar was consistently 31 and I think the hotch-potch class in 1953 was 30. When I went into the RAF in 1955. my mate was a guy called Alan who had been allowed to complete his Spanish and Portuguese degree at uni before doing his national service...

Of course, a lot depended upon the pupil, irrespective of what type of school they were in. My slightly younger brother went to a secondary modern, which became a comprehensive, and was quite happy there, stayed out of trouble, and became an electrician via the apprenticeship schome. He worked...

Chris, It sounds as you were like me. I went to Moseley in 1947 and should have taken my O Levels in 1952, but I wasm't 16 until the following January so we had to do another year scrambled together from all four streams of those younger kids. The problem then was that we then couldn't take...

Toronto Brummie, I'm guessing that my late father-in-law was the caretaker when you were there- silver-haired guy who used to be in the Salvation Army Band. Maurice :cool:

Lyn, Just drifting marginally off topic, I wonder how many kids got to their final year of grammar school and knew what they wanted to do as a job/career. I know I certainly didn't. Obviously some went with a specific career in mind, but my mother made several suggestions, including Thos Cook...

Chris, I sure many on such projects, post similar threads on other sites and then forget just exactly where they have posted. Like many oldtimers I'm sure, my link is set to go straight to the New Posts page. If I have posted a request and not had a reply then I have nothing to worry about...

Cosette, I think a lot depended on costs and whether the family could really afford it. There was also a tendency in some families for it to be assumed that girls would get married at an early age and hence the whole process would be a waste of time & money. Bear in mind that people get married...