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In the 1871 census on Ancestry there is a William Bagley in Poplar London with his age mis-indexed as 43 for what to me looks like 48. He is a boot? maker born Herefordshire, wife Harriet children Edward 13 born Birmingham ,Eliza...
Vauxhall Victor estate, Austin Westminter going town the hill ,Ford Pop ?,Morris Minor and a Ford Anglia and the old Oswald Bailey's store .
Ah yes I remember it well
Thankfully we don't have a market in Droitwich , I remember been dragged round them in Brum in the 50's . I much preferred going round Greys and Lewis's . I can remember going into the Kings Hall Market and seeing the strangely dressed people with there vibrantly coloured roll of cloth.
You could make calls for free from the old pre STD phone you just had to "tap out" the last digit of the persons number. That is quickly operate and release the switch hooks (which the handset rested in) for the number times to make the digit.
Joined GPO Telephones 3 Sep 1962 signed official secret act over a stamp. Made reduntant from BT 30 Sep 1995. Spent 27 (1965 to 1992) years on Strowger exchange maintenance at Springfield Telephone Exchange ,Stratford Rd, Hall Green
To add to this question I have been told that my great aunt Roseanna Agatha Morris nee Fisher 1885 to 1965 was a councillor and would like to find out if it's true
you can buy vouchers from £5 . I have been registered for year and bought some CD's , I only receive the very occasional email from the site to say when new data is available. It's not a pain like the large commercial sites.
Re: Ronald C WALKER
Hi Shera
Sorry Edward Cornelius Fisher was born in Rose Cottage Wharf Rd and was in America by 1915. My Norman married to a Fisher relatives lived at 76
A senior moment I'm afraid
Re: Ronald C WALKER
how strange 76 wharf rd is the address of my relative Edward Cornelius Fisher b.1890 and in a letter in Kings Norton Library she states he is her uncle and lived in canada
I am trying to find information on Ronald C Walker who was living at 45 Redditch Rd Kings Norton in 1964 Kelly's , I think he married Olive Myra Griffin in 1940 born 1918.
Have you tried looking for an obituary in the Evening Mail ? lots of people had them in the 60s to 90s All the death in my family in the time scale are there, with where the burial service is taking place, and the name of the undertakers,
I have an Alan King Gale in the 1901 census age 16 grocers assistant born London with his mom in Aberdare, He next appears as John Alan Thompson at his marriage in Oct 1911 in Carbrook Sheffield to Lilian Weaver of 28 Haverlock Rd Handsworth gives his occupation as photographer. He joined up in...
Some admission books and log books are in the central library archives and were available to look at in the 90's but I understand you need to make special arrangements to look at them now, why is beyond my comprehension.