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A couple of months ago I applied for my father's service record. He served in the Royal Marines during WW2 and the application and fee was sent to Portsmouth. On Saturday I received an acknowledgement from a Navy office in Swadlincote (!?) to say that they were dealing with the application from...

I understand completely your loss. I and the rest of the family felt absolutely devastated when our own beloved Buster left us in similar circumstances. My condolences to you.

Thanks for posting this, a really good read.

Looks like she's "Twisting the Night Away" to me!

Watching a T.V. programme this afternoon my wife made a comment about one of the people appearing which immediately took me back to my childhood and to one of my grandma's sayings, "Er looks like a fairy on a gob o' lard" LOL

R.I.P. Phil. We never met but a great source of knowledge and the answer to lots of my many and varied queries on this forum. You will be sorely missed.

Sent you a message.

No reason other than I know the proprietor's husband from way back in the 1950s.

Hazeefantazee ?

By the style of clothes I would date them as Edwarian, early 1900s/1910s ?

Saw Joe Brown in concert earlier this year. Great night out and a wonderful instrumentalist.

Came across this the other day whilst looking through some old family pics

The most vivid memory of Gospel Lane was related to the gang clashes involving rival gangs from Acocks Green, Sheldon and Solihull. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002134/19640427/721/0031 I was a 15 yr old boy from Sheldon at the time and although never a gang member knew...

Nothing to do with horses but the link does provide an informative section on proceedings at the Birmingham Police Courts. I particularly enjoyed the the case of the parrot!

Wow that is great! Thank you very much

Maurice Again I can only apologise. I too have spent most of the morning scouring the internet, mapping sites etc in a futile effort to find the answer. Don't know the teacher's name but I do what I would like to call him/her! :mad:

Sorry to raise your hopes. my Dad worked with a lady at Amington Rd. named Dot but she lived on Cranes Park Road, Sheldon. Jim

What price the quality of teaching these days ? As a last result to the question of the red X another pupil contacted the teacher who set the homework to say it couldn't be found. Reply was that this was a point of reference for the teacher's notes only and doesn't appear on any O.S. maps. I can...

Was your mother in law called Dot and did she live in Sheldon?

It's not on an actual map. It's a homework sheet with illustrations of O.S. map symbols. It is just as described, a plain red X with no reference to other map features. Thanks for your interest.