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Every Christmas after my grandad retired he would have a superb hamper from Serck....yummy food in it, when he died they sent a lovely floral tribute....that type of thing seems to have stopped now in factories...I suppose it's what you call going forward!!!

Robert what year was the newspaper cutting please!!! My grandfather worked at Serck, Greet....don't know what section though...he probably would have retired in the 60's, my husband now works for Serck...like everything all the Serck factories seem to be transferring to one main...

Thankyou do gooders...yet another piece of history bites the dust...if I remember rightly there was a piece on the news when they were doing abit on the slave trade....it was very interesting....glad to see mr sheepdog is still keeping his eye on us..hope you are ok mr sheepdog and feeling a tad...

Hi Eton Sun, Some of the info that I have: 1828...listed as Heaton Brothers, button makers and brass rollers. If you put in your search on your main server "OldCopper", there is a web site that gives you all the identifying marks of this company, they also tell you something about what they...

The Minesweeper Aston Villa was adopted by the Aston and Lozells women's working parties.....HMS Aston Villa was completed in 1937 and was then requistioned by the Royal Navy in 1939. She was attacked by enemy aircraft on 3rd May 1940...at the time she was operating just of Norway, she was...

This is a nice link for aerial views of modern Birmingham www.webbaviation.co.uk/gallery/v/birmingham

Hi Shelagh, if you put the name of the church into your main internet provider search engine you can usually get onto that churchs diocese, most of them have pictures of the church that you are requesting. Hope this is of some help :)

This building was built between 1700 - 1720. The farm buildings, barns, wash houses, stables, pigstyes etc were bulldozed into a pool near the hall at the time of demolition in 1962, halving the pools original depth. The dip can be found outside Wingfield House and is now a play area for...

I notice from the swimmiong thread that you worked at Wimbushs Pom, do you remember any of the staff there, like your Union Rep and perhaps one of the mangers (female) that used to operate from there!!! In the 70's when I first started work one of my best friends used to live by Wimbushs, we...

Here's some more for you "Thomas Baylis, Stratford-upon-Avon, baker V. William Spencer, Great Alne, miller, for damages caused by careless driving of a waggon..1827" "Information of samuel Edgington, Ettington, carpenter V. Joseph Hughes, Halford Bridge, miller, for willful damage to fence of...

If only some of these court actions were in today.... "Indictment v. the Directors of the Union Mill Company for setting up an unlawful undertaking for grinding corn and making bread"....1809 "Briefs for the prisoner in Regina (William George Hopkins, Oversley Mill, miller) v. John Humphries...

Di and gang I'm still here, I will do some updates later for you all, and perhaps some more requests for you to get your teeth into....take your minds of things

Wendy, what year would that be...so that I can check on the electorial rolls!!!

Nice picture Wendy, do you mind if I copy it.....thankyou :)

Amanda try this too, I think I saw some workhouses on this site www.pickardspinkpages.co.uk

Somewhere on this forum there are some pictures of old Chocolate boxes, but for the life of me I can't find them!! Anyway a few interesting facts: 1879...employed 230 workers 1889...employed 1,193 workers 1899..employed 2,689 workers 1909...employed 4,923 workers 1919...employed 7,500 workers...

Thanks Sylvia, I knew of the mill and knew that the site of the mill is now a gas holder, but you have given me the name of the roads which is of great help, so will add that now to my research....I think mom said she would save me the article but won't see her for a few weeks. Once again...

Hi, the only Prosser I have got is: Richard Charles/Charles Richard Prosser who was at Blythe Mill/ Shustoke and Over Whitacre Mill in 1921....I think that you will find that Prossers in the instance deal mainly with animal feed, they are still in existence today, but no longer live at Blythe...

Hi and welcome, did Lelia have any brothers that started at Blythe Mill Coleshill a buisness to do with corn feeds etc :)

Famous gun maker of Holdford Hope that you find this as interesting as I did