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Thanks for this one Steve, my wife used to live in a road close to here almost under the bridge and when I started to collect postcards, I started to co.llect cards of the bridges and the Saltash ferry which preceeded the road bridge I now have about 300 and this would have made a good one with...

and the cigarettes we smoked!!!!!! 21/, LUCKY TO GET TO 18. Sorry slipped off the track then

No Ford Cortina, wondered if it was the souped up 1600. Bob

The Midland Red bus (looks like a wartime Guy), is going straight on to turn into Steelhouse Lane, probably on one of the Sutton routes. On the back right corner wasn't that Dunn & Co? Bob

There have been a lot of reports of mystery parcels arriving from Chine, but anything to do with computers, I would be very careful, you never know, plug it in and empty your bank account, sorry I am a conspiracy theorist. Bob

I wonder if Ken & Sue are still together. Bob

The big house on the left, just beyond the pram is where my friend lived. Gosh that stirred some memories, thanks. Bob

What a super view and not a 28 bus in sight, between 1940 and 1947 this was a sight I saw every school day as I headed to Green Lanes School I used to turn left into Boldmere Road and right into Sheffield? Road and over the lattice work footbridge. I used to have a friend lived in one of the...

A good one for John from Staffs to do some vehicle identification, but is that an ambulance on Corporation Street lights and if so what make was it? When you look at the enlarged picture, it almost comes to life, you can feel the hustle and bustle of the City centre. Again apropos my...

Thanks a lot, it looks better, the four year old just told me in future we do any in JPEG not PDF and don't hold your breath but with a red letter day on 1st April, retirement after 68 years of work, I should be able to scan some of the Birmingham postcards I have and any not on here I will put...

This picture was passed to me by a distant cousin (many times removed). He advised that it was of Frederick Vanstone (my grandfathers brother) who had used horse drawn transport for deliveries from the railway and now with the first motorised truck for the LMS in Birmingham to be used for rail...

Interesting in the pictures of the 1950s and 1960s, all the ladies are in dresses or skirts, no jeans, track suit bottoms, shell suits (remember them) or trainers. I know in the sixties the mini skirt came in, but when did women move over to jeans or similar and trainers. Bob

You are an absolute star to go to all this trouble for me, Henry has been a pain in the butt ever since I discovered him. His only records are on IGI, on FreeBMD and ancestry etc he does not appear until his misspelt name in 1851 living in Stoney Lane and then three years later he dies in...

Thanks again I have always assumed brougham to be a misspelling of Birmingham and unfortunately there was no house number in the church entry for the burial, just Cregoe Street. Bob

Thanks for the map, the address translation I wanted was the Solihull one, but looking at your map, this is a long way to go every day Bob

Is there a thread with any pictures of Crego Street?

Thank you again, why I asked about Solihull is because on page 8, Solihull Borough 1841 census, second entry is a Henry Durose an agricultural labourer and I have often wondered if this was my Henry and the name misspelt so many times was written Incorrectly. But can you translate the...

Thanks Bob

He was an agricultural labourer, so possibly he lived in a tied house owned by one of the farms, but thanks for your help. Why he moved to Crego Street I will never know, he is a mystery man anyway, no birth, no wedding but children and a wife including one born about the time of his death...

Very many thanks , zany idea what sort of dwelling it was? Bob