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This is most probably Charles Foden 1842-1908, wife Eliza, daughter Jane & son Arthur.

Ok Mike & Viv, so oilcake is for cattle. Now slabcake at the time, was it full of raisins something like Xmas cake? I found on internet an old recipe called World War 1 cake which doesn't have any eggs, milk or butter in it, but lots of spices and uses oil for instance as shortening; I made it...

Thanks BOB.

Oh !! Well, I saw the thread Sribbans Bakery & assumed it was cake using oil as a shortening ingredient !

This is really interesting, I've never got as far as WW2 with the large family history, & I don't know of the farm on Mill Green, Chester road !! Lets see what I can find. Thanks Chris for that?

I just did some research on John Henry Scribbans, so he could quite possibly connect to my grandparents, and the story may well be true. Mr Scribbans in 1911 is an "oil cake manufactorer" and lived in Rosemary Hill Rd, Streetly, while grandpa Foden lived around the corner on Chester Road. They...

Hi there ! My gt gt grandfather Caleb Foden from Erdington, lived on Blakelands Farm in the 1870's and William one of his sons married an Eliza Horton in 1850. Another of his sons took over the 180 acres farm in 1881. Does this farm still exist ??

Ta! Lovely to see the old names again.

How nice to welcome me back, my best regards to all who remember me. Grandpa was James Foden and his garage Foden & Walters was in Burnett Rd while his Dad had the Hardwicke Nurseries on Chester Rd. However, James left S.C. when he married his waitress in 1923. Bet he regretted that (leaving...

Glad to see you're still around Mike!

Anyway, here goes. My grandpa from Streetly ran a garage there during WWI and it seems he was called to Mr Scribbans to repair his car. The story goes he was a fruit cake baker, and he met my grandmother there who was their silver service waitress. This would have been approx 1920 - 1923. Could...

I have been away from the forum a very long time, pls, how can I post on this thread again?

The Casualty Clearing Stations were the front line medical units, whose role was to accept the sick and wounded, assess the casualties, carry out emergency treatment and evacuate the casualties to a general hospital behind the lines. They were highly mobile military hospitals.

He entered 'the concessional area' in March 44. He then left 'concessional area' in Aug 44, and was admitted to hospital 3 times between then and Feb 45. He was then posted to Deolali transit camp pending embarquement for leave in UK. As far as I know he wasn't wounded, but suffered from...

Can anyone help with explanations in the text of my Dad's WW2 military records please. (He came out of Burma in 1946.) - Leave with RA - Admitted hospital 27 CCS and 80BGH

Thanks to this postI downloaded the book as suggested and have just finished the Naked Island. Don't know how he managed to survive thru all that hell. And he still was able to keep his sense of humour after the finish and was able to put it down in a book!

Looking forward to seeing them. Tho' I've never been to one of your meetings yet, it's a way for me to know a little more about how you all are.

Re: Cadbury's Bourneville Interesting info on the name of BOURNE. I have seen the name of Bourne Vale on a map that must be dated about 1890. (It was on Little Hardwick Road, off the A452 & near the Hardwick Inn). The Bourne Waterworks and something called Round Hill was just behind and also...

Re: Cadbury's Bourneville Would the name of Bourneville have anything to do with the area BOURNE VALE nr Streetly, in 1910 ?