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I remember a murder about that time in the Park, I had been there that afternoon taken on a visit by a relative I was just a child so I heard scraps of conversations from the adults in hushed tones saying the victim was a prostitute, whether this was true I do not know but would love to find...

It must have been the 60s that Princess Margaret came to Birmingham, my children were very young we were on a visit to Cannon Hill Park and I think she opened the mac centre, perhaps some one can verify this. Malta.

Hi maggie. I remember the Queen and Prince Phillip came to Birmingham I was standing opposite the Council House next to the press platform I had a good view and rembember that the Queen wore a coat & hat in an emerald green her complexion was like porcelain, it must have been the early 50s as I...

We went to the Swallow Raincoat Factory.I remember the cutting room huge layers of fabrics, it looked like a giant jig-saw puzzle.Malta.

The Fish & Chip Shop was Kench's the fire was the late 60s they reopened in Longmore St. next to the Laundry.

Hi Robert my grandmother was a Harrison before marriage and the family lived in Vincent Crescent. any relation do you think? Malta.

I don't think the word navvie is meant to show any disrespect to the Irish, it comes from the word navigation, when the canals were being dug in the 1700's, these hard working lads came over to earn a living, we all know that Irish labour help build all our transport networks

The guy standing watching had got the hardest job, when you do nothing you never know when you are finished.

Does anyone rember Dante's the Italian Hairdresser on Gooch ST. Balsall Heath, where the girls used to go for the D.A. later the Italian cut. it would have been the late 50s and early 60s.

Hi Looking for descendants of Samuel Williams. Samuel Williams born 1859 Bishopgate St Ladywood Father, Thomas Wiliams born 1823 Newent Gloucestershire Mother, Mary Wilkes born 1830 Berkley Gloucestershire Siblings Elizabeth born 1849, Sarah born 1851, Henry born 1854, and Thomas born 1857...

John Harrison Hi John The information I have is correct, because I have Birth and marriage certificates going back to William and Emma in Sutton Coldfield. Eliza did live in Vincent Crescent Balsall Heath in 1891 with her second husband Charles Cook and the Family of Harrison's and one daughter...

John Harrison Hi John, Thanks for your reply. I was unable to find J.Harrison on Ancestry.co.uk. but found 1881 census on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. [strange don't you think] however the family lived in Bellview Terrace, Kings Norton. but today is known as Balsall Heath...

I am trying to trace the descendants of my great grandfather John Harrison born abt 1853 died 1887 son of William Harrison and Emma Willetts, on the 1881 census John lived in Bellview Terrace which was then in Kings Norton, on the 1851 census William and Emma lived on the Old Chester Rd Sutton...

I have enjoyed reading the threads on WWII, and I wonder if you know the first allied soldier killed in action on D Day on operatoin Tonga was a local lad from Smethwick. Born in 1915,Lieutenant Herbert Denham Brotheridge was an officer in D Company,Oxfordshire and Buckinghanshire Light...

Big Bands What about the jazz nights at the Town Hall in the early fifties,you could see stars like Joe Loss,Ted Heath, Eric Delaney,Ivor and Basil Kerchin, Vic Ash,Joe Herriot.Johnny Dankworth, Squardronairs,Tubby Hayes George Melly, I could go on, the old hall used to shake with the fabulous...

pmc 1947 We used to go the Moseley to see the H films, we would go to the exit doors and when the first house turned out we would walk in backwards we got away with foe ages till they caught on Happy days

Re The Triangle I spent many hours in that fleapit,cheap seats fourpence a tanner if you were rich, Mrs Marnie was the lady cashier she lived over the road by the doctors on the corner of Conybere St and William Edward St,who remembers Dr McGregor, Dr Wand and Dr Sanderland.