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Hi, G G Jean, Your brother, Albert, was working for Holt's in the early sixties, so I guess Ansells didn't close the place down when they took over... But Holt's was eventually closed down as a brewery, because I believe it is now a pub popularly frequented by students of Aston University -...

Hello, G G Jean, Can you tell me the period in which your brother worked at Holt Brewery? And was it still in Holt Street, Gosta Green? I worked there from 1943 for four years until I decided that I was due for call-up for National Service, and I decided to get myself in some kind of...

Hi, Alf, Had a glance at your link regarding defunct breweries and became a litle nostalgic when I found the Squirrel motif of the Holt Brewery Company. This is where I went for my first job when I left Loxton Street Seniors in January 1943. I was office boy on the reception desk with Mr...

Chocks2: I wonder if your grandad ever mentioned the bookie - Harry Jones - who operated (illegaly in those days!) from, I think it was No. 10... No.10 was my Aunt Lil's house. She was Harry's sister-in-law, being married to Lil's sister, who was also my mother's sister - hence Lil being my...

Nice one, Paul. Add my name to your opinions... As for people stealing from their neighbours, I had an aunt who would regularly "pop out" to see someone "down the street" - leaving her door wide open and her purse (which had money in it !) on the table... She would come back and the purse -...

Hi, Wendy, I take your point about your sister-in-law's comment. Maybe teachers these days accept these "modern" forms of communication - perhaps with a shrug of the shoulders? My son - he's now 50 years of age - has terrible handwriting; always has had , even in schooldays. It was...

Stitcher: I totally agree with everything you say in the quote. And I was discussing with the wife, only yesterday, the TH and the AR business... The sad thing is: it's not only our schoolchildren who are now speaking like it - it's adults, as well...! Another thought: schoolkids are, these...

Hiya, Folks, I don't know how I managed to get my post in twice, yesterday. Didn't mean to be emphatic, or anything. Slip of the keyboard or something I expect... Cheers, Jim Pedley (pedlarman)

Hi, Fellow Brummies, A few years ago, my son took me on a "safari" of the Middle-West (cowboyland !) of America as a retiremernt present... We lived mainly off the back of an American equivalent of a Land Rover, getting our provisions from supermarkets in the various towns we went through...

Hi, Fellow Brummies, A few years ago, my son took me on a "safari" of the Middle-West (cowboy land !) of America as a retiremernt present... We lived mainly off the back of an American equivalent of a Land Rover, getting our provisions from supermarkets in the various towns we went through...

Louisa, I thought you might like to see a couple of pictures taken at Pype Hayes Hall during the early Fifties. One is of the kids enjoying a ride on the Hall’s donkey - “Tiny”. My wife is the one on the left in nurse’s uniform controlling the kids. The lady holding on to the donkey is Gwen...

　 Hi, Louisa, Let's try again... My wife started her service at Pype Hayes Hall during the late Forties and early Fifties. In those days it was a residential home for abandoned children, and for children whose parents were unable to cope. The children's ages ranged from tiny babies to...

Thanks, Paul: Postie has given me the same advice. I shall certainly be trying what you both suggest. And I won't be caught out again - even if I have to click for a "Review" after every sentence...!!! Thanks again. Merry Christmas. Cheers, Jim Pedley, (pedlarman)

Louisa, This morning I have written two replies to your queries. The first long one I lost when I clicked for review and up came a new window telling me I hadn't "logged in". So, dutifully, I logged in at the new window and began, all over again, to re-write what I had written before, and a...

Hi, Louisa: My wife is not in at the moment so I can't check with her immediately. I'll ask your question when she comes back. But I don't know whether she will be able to remember details of administration methods after such a long time... We'll see when she comes home. Cheers, Jim...

Hello, shera, I've just checked with my wife and she says that she started at Pype Hayes Hall in 1947, when she was seventeen. (Never realised before now that 1947 was the year I was called up for National Service). Anyway, she says in those days it was a home for orphaned or abandoned...

Frothblower, I met and courted my wife when she was a children's nurse in residence at Pype Hayes Hall, in Pype Hayes Park, which was a City Council children's home in those days. I used to walk it from there back to Duddeston if I sometimes missed the last tram back to town. (My old Marine...

lesg128: I can vouch for mikejee's details. I grew up in Adams Street and a lot of my ancestors lived there, according to my research. The same research told me that Adams Street had a former name of Brewery Street - although it didn't tell me why the name was changed...! Cheers, Jim...

Hi, John, I have one litle story about the Farcroft that might interest you... When I left school in 1947 at the age of fourteen, I was offered the job of office boy accompanying the commissionaire on the reception desk at Holt Brewery (later taken over by Ansells). The brewery used to...