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Edit, images referred to are no longer available. Thanks for the link. Having just browsed the photo's it all seems so run down. I really don't remember it being like that until later - perhaps the minds playing tricks. Same as when you think back you always think of the good old days (were...

As a child I can remember Lozells Road very well. This was in the 1970's/80's. A very different place to now. We had a Woolworths (where I bought my very first record), Fine Fare, Boots The Chemist, A Wool Shop (cannot remember the name), a Pet Shop. At the far end there was The House of...

Hi Bren I have traced them back to Dursley & North Nibley in Gloucestershire. Some came to Birmingham and others Liverpool & London. I wonder what Birmingham was like for them back then? My nan (not a Dauncey) was born in Aston and lived in the nearby area all of her life. She lived to...

My branch of the Dauncey family came to Birmingham in the 1880's. Am trying to trace any Dauncey's living in Birmingham to see whether we have a connection. It is quite a rare surname.

Barrie thanks for this info - it is fantastic! You have just confirmed that it is indeed the right family. Violet Dauncey nee Mason is my grandmother. Her brother was Alfred Reginald Mason. Her husband George Daniel Dauncey died before I was born but my Uncle (my dad's brother) has told me a...

Thank you for your help. I have looked at the CWGC website and found an Reginald Alfred Mason listed who may be my Alfred. His father is listed as William Mason of 4 Church Cottages, St. Georges, Birmingham. His regiment was the King's Royal Rifle Corps. The age is incorrect but if he lied...

Alfred Reginald Mason was my Great Uncle. He was born in Birmingham in 1899 to parents William Mason and Mary Ball. Family legend has it that he was under age and lied about it to go to war. He went with a few friends from the same street to sign up and whilst they were all sent home for...

I have many happy childhood memories of Burnham and Brean. As you say it must be a favourite place with Brummies. The last time I was in Brean I bumped into friends from Birmingham whom I haven't seen in 8 years!

Hi everyone! enjoyed reading all your posts. I have just remembered a few sayings that we used a lot in our house. If we had piled our plate too high with food and then couldn't eat it all - we were told "Pelican, Pelican - beak holds more than it's belly can". or our "eyes were bigger than...

Thank you for the information phil - thats fantastic. The only pub on the list that I remember was The Lord Byron. I have just been told that the Man o War pub which was a "newer" pub on Wheeler Street has now been flattened. Other pubs in the area which I used to visit were The Gunmakers...

I have always been told that there were a great many pubs in Wheeler Street and that if you had a drink in each one from top to bottom you would be very drunk indeed. Is this true? Can anyone tell me please the names of all these pubs?

I have been told a story of the Queen visiting Lucas's and from all your posts it seems it was in the 1950's. At the time my nan's sister, Lilly Heath, worked at Joseph Lucas and decorated a bridge in paper flowers for the Queen visit. My nan still had the book which showed how to make flowers...

It is such a shame about the vandalism at all of these graveyards. In today's society unfortunately what hope do we have where there is very little respect for the living............ let alone the dead!

One of my favourite memories of Birmingham is looking down from the top of our street (when we had got home after being away on holiday) and seeing the GPO tower with two red lights on top flashing at us. We then knew we were truly home.

Does anybody remember Dr Woodcock on Hamstead Road. From memory he was opposite where there were some allottments and not quite as far down as Handsworth Park.

Hi Wales I don't remember a pub on the corner of Villa Street and Nusery Road. But your picture is dated 1968 and I would have been 3! I remember there being a pub on the corner of Wills Street and it could have been Villa Street but I cannot for the life of me remember its name. Just up...

JKC Thanks for that info. I too had reached the same conclusion. Unsure if she married him or took his name. Have a death for a Caroline A Jackson in 1897 but may not be my Caroline. In 1901 I have Henry Mumford living with his half brother Thomas Jackson. I think I have proved my family...

Hi John It would be great if I could see you family tree. I have researched my Dauncey family back and my grandfather Alfred Dauncey married a Clara Jackson in 1890. Clara's parents were a George Crawley Jackson who died in 1877 and her mother was a Caroline A Jackson. On the 1881 census...

Hi all, read all the sayings and here are a few I remember; All around the Wrekin Face as long as Livery Street Up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire, daddy was the old gee gee (dad carrying me on his back up to bed!) Its black over Bill's mothers (when it looked like rain) It's a 5 minute walk...

Hi Wak, sorry to come back to you but I have just searched the FreeBmd website and found a Frank Moss married in 1916 in Aston. There is no record of the christian name of the lady he married but she had the surname Jackson. Do you know who Frank Snr. married? My dad's father married a Clara...