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Blimey Mike! No I haven't yet. I've been going through my male line (Johnson) and just quickly jotted down Annie's details/parents etc with every intention of coming back to the Child line. An Ancestry link I found on Google tells me that the Child family are fourth cousins of Benjamin...

Excellent Mike, Also ties in nicely with Annie marrying my G Grandfather in 1904, he lived at 22 Station Rd Erdington. Plus I see more than one shop at one point.

Thanks John, I don't remember seeing the info in that format, is 73 the house number?

Not that I recorded or can remember Janice, I had made a note of the above info on a spreadsheet but that is all I have.

I've tried unsuccessfully to find him using the search facility (Pawnbrokers) so throwing this one out to the learned members. My G Grandmother Annie Child (b: abt 1880 ) Her parents Henry & Rosa Child (nee Farmer) All I have is they were both pawnbrokers and resided in Court Lane. I don't...

I think you are right, no more than sixpence at any rate. If I had the choice I always went for the dark red one called 'Red Devil' ?? I think.

Anyone remember Jubblies in the triangular Packaging?

Are these all the newspapers that can be accessed via Findmypast?

Thanks for that confirmation Lloyd. I knew nothing of the 'agreement' with the Corporation.

I loved the old buses, jumping off the platform at the back before it stopped was the best part of the journey, plus having a crafty after school fag upstairs on the way home. I don't ever remember riding on a Midland Red bus though, weren't they for the longer routes out of town?

A mates family invited me to join them on a static caravan holiday to Burnham on sea when I was 12 or 13, loved it. Five years later I made the move to the South West coast permanent. Still haven't tired of the sea view every morning after 45 years.

I used to live just round the corner from the Spinney (bus terminus) at the end of Witton Lodge Rd and Court Lane. Number 7 bus to Villa Park (I think?) As kids we used to hand around there, picking up bus tickets looking for reversible numbers! I think we were easily pleased. Ha!

From memory: 64 to 67 buses to Short heath , Erdington and Pype Hayes from town.

Bar Skittles, I remember having that too. Also Action Man, Airfix models, plastic soldier armies along with those little metal spring loaded cannons that fired matchsticks to mow down the soldiers.

Lipstick? more like a thermo- nuclear device at the time :D

I remember being quite happy as a child opening a few Christmas presents until my kid brother opened this.....

Thanks everyone for your help in replies. (big thumb)

That's a good point Eric. She had only one child, my father in 1937, and no more children until her death ten years later. She was still married to my Grandfather who was in attendance at her death.

My Grandmother died in 1947 aged 34 at Johnson Rd Erdington. Of course I'm curious to know why she departed so early. I can read 'certified by ? ? Mc Creary MD but not the a1 cause or by, although I think the second word is Tumour. Can anyone decipher this please.

Thanks John, least I can see where it was.