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I've just found an old photograph. It may well be a relative of my husband!

I sang that at KEGS Camp Hill too c1956-61.

I was at school with a young girl whose name was Guest and we shared the same Christian name.

Thanks for that. My husband John Hawker often talks about his times at Wilmot Breeden and especially about the sea school at Aberdovey.

Are there any old girls out there who aspired to great things under Miss Mandeville's tutilage? Is there anyone eelse out there who benefitted from Miss Mandevile's tutelage?

I may have asked this question before so apologies if this is so. My husband often talks about the sea school at Aberdovey where apprentices were sent during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Can anyone remember going there?

Thank you all for your replies which are very interesting. I appear to have confused you with my question. I have found Auntie Elsie (Elsie Turner) staying with my grandparents on the 1921 Census in Chase Terrace but the additional information re her occupation was written at the side.

I have today found my great Aunt Elsie on the 1921 Census (currently free on FMP). Her description is Nurse at Low Wood Harborne. Can anyone help me with a question. What was this place and is it still standing please? Judy

I have done a small search of this thread but am unable to find what I'm looking for. My husband's grandfather and parents were living at Prospect Villas, Hillaries Road, Erdington on the 1901 Census. Can anyone show me where that might have been please?

I've just come across this thread which I found very interesting. My husband's grandparents, Joseph Henry Blakemore and Edith Silvers, were married at "St. James Church, Ashted" in 1912. Is this the same church you are all talking about here?

Excuse me interrupting but is there a similar thread to this for KEGS Camp Hill Girls School?

I've got a footer warning re Header Section Tool Too Large. What's this about? I'm dropping out now till it goes.

With reference to The Roundhouse, a relative recently had a guided tour when it was mentioned that someone had been killed there during its construction. It may have been an ancestor of our family. Dooes anyone know the man's name please?

Such a friendly man and so approachable. So sorry to hear this.

In the 1940s/1950s my dad Alec Bradbury had a corn and seed merchants shop at the junction of Highfield Road with Alum Rock Road. There was a very deep dark cellar outside on the pavement covered with a wooden lid. The shop had a very wierd smell I seem to remember.

Thank you for the above information everybody.

Thank you for your detailed account of the early Brierley Hill glass making industry in the 1800s. Obviously it was just a family wish and a story developed, just as the same family reckoned connection to Blakemores (Spar) through the husband of Edith Silvers, Joseph Henry Blakemore!;)

Yes, thank you,that is the guy who is an ancestor of my husband. Disappointing because even far back they all seemed to be shoemakers. His family roots go far back to Dudley but maybe a sibling was in the glass industry. That's the story spread throughout the family and then there are those...

Thank you for your most interesting reply. You have certainly put some effort into it. I now need to trace Francis Silvers back from his home at Heneage Street, Aston, to his roots in Dudley, to see whether he himself was working in the glass industry.

That's sad news. An art history visit and coffee there is a frequent outing.