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Hi all we will be having a bit of a meet up on the 29th January at The Pen Room from 2 til 4 pm. Chance for the current volunteers to have a chat and anyone else who is interested is welcome to come along. We will be happy to sign up any new volunteers / members on the day, there are lots of...

Those cupboards with the drop - down bread board were lethal, I pulled ours over on top of myself severla times before my mom decided to get rid of it!! And, why were they all painted that horrible greeny - brown colour? Yuk!! * You can still get a 5 Boys bar!!

Weren't the light blue buses from the Walsall garage?

No I couldn't make it that day!

After the house tour on the 18th, Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens will be closed for the winter, they re-open in March.

Sorry Jean no idea!! I'm guessing at sausage rolls, etc though.

Its during the day, I thought the do was an evening one?

Exciting news!!!!! Castle Bromwich Hall is going to be open for a tour on Saturday the 18th December, it costs £10 and there will be a buffet afterwards, details on the Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens Trust website - https://www.cbhgt.org.uk/

Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens this Sunday - Christmas event, 12 til 4 pm, games, crafts and those last minute christmas presents!!!

Its quarter past...... must get a little hand on this watch!!

Beorma's Ham was round about where Kings Norton is now.

I'd just like to pint out that christianity was not legally enforced until the middle of the 17th century, before that you could be pagan if you wanted as you were not forced to go to church, in fact many pagans worshipped at their local church with christians, their only insistence that they...

A good many of the Anglo Saxon Chronicles were not contempory with the events that were written in them. They should be taken with a very large pinch of salt!! They are skewed towards the christian thinking of the day and most do not represent the true nature of viking 'attacks'. The vikings...

Funny, when I saw the Band of Joy, he was dreadful.....

Its not there because it burned down!!

Think so, the road off to the left would be Mason road and just before it is where the library is now.

Hi all, on Sunday 24th October, the Tyseley Locomotion Works are having an open day from 10 am to 5 pm. On Thursday 28th October 11 am to 3 pm, there is a halloween special at Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens, all sorts of games and workshops for kids and adults!!

During WW1 Erdington was barely a crossroads hamlet but at the back of St Barnabus there is a memorial dedicated to the fallen. It is a huge shame that this church has been a magnet for drunks and louts for many years. I used to live in Church road and during my study at OU I had to go and...

Blatant advertising here!! Membership of the Friends of Key Hill & Warstone Lane Cemeteries is a mere £10 per year and every penny we can use goes to the restoration of monuments. If you would like to join please contact me by e-mail at: [email protected] and I will send you a...

I worked at Newey's, Tipton, in the packing department for several years. My mother had homework from there for many, many years, at one time it was delivered by horse and cart, later by a van then still later you had to go and collect it yourself. It was a family occupation and could include...