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Hi, my father was a bricklayer for Sapcotes the Builders of Summerhill Street, Hockley in the 30's, he worked on building the Semi's which line the Coventry Road from the Swan out to where they end just before the Elmdon Airport and in all the roads behind the Coventry Road in Sheldon. The...

Hi, Geoffrey, Thanks for identifying the flower ground as Francis Nicholls, Len Twist certainly rings a bell with me, my mother B. T. Thorley bought flowers from there and other grounds in the wholesale market for over 50 years!! Thanks for that information, I will be posting another much...

Hi Frothblower, The photo looks better already, so much clearer, I have only just noticed the shield on the side of the 'chara', I wonder if the transport 'buffs' can identify the make or company from that! Thanks, Smiler

This photo is in a terrible state and I would be grateful if someone could have a go at restoring it a bit!! I believe that the lady sitting in the back row of the Chara on the right of the photo with the child on her lap is my Grandmother Sarah Ann EVANS nee CAIN 1880-1946, the child would...

Further to my post about Percy Moseley and Lease Lane, I have only ever found one photo of Lease Lane and this was taken after the Market Hall had been bombed in 1940, as a child I can remember that only some of the houses on the lefthand side( going up the hill) of the Lane were lived in and a...

The THORLEY/LEES families have been involved with the Smithfield Wholesale Market and the Bull Ring Market for over 100 years, as can be seen from the 1891 Census record of Matilda THORLEY a Fruiterer living at 17/6 Bull Ring with her son and daughter and a boarder. Piece...

Hi, Wonderful!! This is absolutely all new to me, really fantastic, now remember that I am only step related, but I will ask a lady who I am in touch with to contact you via this thread, because she is related to you and will take you to another part of your family that I dont suppose you...

Hi, Ralph John THORLEY b 1899, was my mothers Stepfather, her own father John Walter WALTON having died in the First World War, The father of Ralph John Thorley was Samuel Thorley b 1879 he died on active service in France 7/8/1917 m aged 38, and is buried in Mendingham Military Cemetery...

Thanks just a try, it was the bend in the road that made me think it was that garage. Keep them coming it takes me back a bit!!! Smiler

Winson Green Road junction Lodge Road and Handsworth New Road. Smiler

My mother who was born in Digbeth, before the First world war, told me that this cinema in Park Street, was always refered to by the locals as the 'Flea Pit' and was not somewhere she would go to, apparently in the 20's and 30's, it was common that whilst the film was being shown, attendants...

Hi, Could this be the man you are looking for? Taken from the London Gazette online. 2nd Volunteer Battalion,1 the Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment], Frank Knight Woodroffe, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant (Supernumerary). Dated 4th May, 1887 Being a Brum the only...

The Minerva Cafe was a real old family run business, it was run by John Fletcher and his brother Ernie Fletcher, together with their sister Lil, who communicated between the brothers who apparently didn't get on. So John worked at the front of the shop serving sausage and tomato sandwiches and...

Percy Moseley in 1945 lived 2 doors away from where I was born, at 10, Lease Lane, off Edgbaston Street, with his wife Flo and children, the youngest was Sammy, Shirley, Joan and there was another son but I cant remember his name. It might have been Maurice!! This was 50 odd years ago...

Thank you all for your replies, Frank Cain was the youngest member of the family, he spent his life as a gun maker in the Gun Quarter. I remember meeting him in the early 50's as a very young boy, he appeared very old although only in his 60's!! he was living at 93, Gt Colmore Street then...

I am looking for anyone who may know anything about the family of Thomas Patrick CAIN and wife Ann, who in the 1891 census lived at 29, Fisher Street, Gosta Green, Birmingham. They were a large family and members lived in Aston Road, Dartmouth Street and Richard Street before the war...

Re the NUTT family in Digbeth, I lived at Rea Street Flats, corner of Rea Street and Digbeth from 1953 to 1968. Next to Digbeth Bus Station. Ronald and Josephine NUTT lived at No 3 Rea Street Flats and are in the 1962 Voters List, they had a couple of children, but I can't remember their...

Believe me thats what I was told by a neighbour who was a member of the club in Bearwood. I wouldn't make that one up, would I!!! Smiler

I believe that this was a 'self help' society for the working man, giving them a club to gather in and have a drink with other like minded men, and if times got hard they could be helped by the other members of the club. This appears to be supported by the club motto 'A Cork never sinks'...

The Mint, Icknield Street?