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Hi Wendy. Cant say I know it but I'm just a bit "up the road" in Port Macquarie, NSW. Home was, from 1940 to 1963 in Lyndon Road Sheldon, just a couple of hundred yards up from the Sheldon Cinema. I've been back (though not recently) but now the cinema has gone, I don't think I'll be...

Wendylee, whereabouts in Aus? OldBrummie.

I wonder what prompted the "runner" in the dark glasses. The way the photo has been taken makes it look like he's actually in a race carrying the post (or is that a drain pipe?) and sign that says A3. Old Brummie.

"oldMohawk's" photo show's something interesting apart from the kids. Above the window to the left is what appears to be a miniature "potted" garden. Someone has obviously tried to liven a rather drab frontage with pot plants though to the right appears a children's toy house. It's also...

Hi Steve. Dad was company accountant, name Cyril Leatham Platt. I don't remember dates but he was 'head-hunted' and later moved a couple of streets away to "Delta Wire". I remember Hoskins quite well as Dad often worked 'on the books' (accounts) at weekends when it was quiet and he took myself...

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if there are any lists of ARP Wardens who served during WW2, specifically in Sheldon and on the knocker, Lyndon Road? OldBrummie

A beautiful motor but going back to the subject photo there appears to possibly be a bar of some kind across the middle of the radiator and that doesn't look very "Rolls Royce". OldBrummie

Can I join in? This guy has certainly caused a stir. My take - Cover his head and he looks almost female in his gait. Even his swinging arm gives same impression. If they weren't plus fours, it might almost be a skirt. Guy in trilby (?) seems uninterested but the guy to his right with the bag of...

I may be wrong but to me this appears to be the end of the line. Look at the tracks and the one on the left merges with the one on the right, indicating the trams on the right track shuttle across to the left and return from whence they came. Thus this must be a terminus. There appears no track...

Further to my last, the two missing names on the Butlins pic are Harry and Evelyn Adams. Old Brummie

More on 298th Birmingham. 1st pic is the Yardley District Management Team at a conference at Butlins - sorry can't remember the year - nor can I recall all the names. But, from the left husband and wife, Harry and ???. - Arthur Painter (Yardley Funeral Director) - my Mum Molly Platt. - Bert...

JohnO she was definitely a "Show Stopper". OldBrummie.

Birmingham post 1900's was a very different place to that which we know today. For those who would seek more on the period (and many may already know this) may I recommend three books written by one Kathleen Dayus (born Hockley 1903). The first, "Her People" 1982, "Where There's Life" 1985 and...

Janice, thank you so much. OldBrummie.

Morturn I thank you and appreciate your advice but I am not familiar with the 'private msg facility' OldBrummie

Hi again M Chinery (a bit formal but I dont know your name yet). I have been working on the "Chinery Tree" for about 14 years and am aware of James Chinery (1794 - 1840) migrating to The States with his wife Ann Johnson (1796 - 1842). I show 6 children. Ann 1818-1818, Ann Susanna (1820 - ?)...

Spargone you do correctly remember the Police House (or was it two houses?) fronting Coventry Road. And yes there was an Police Alarm Box outside, and the Telephone Exchange was next door in Lyndon Road. On the other side (right) of Lyndon Road just past the Cinema and the car park access road...

I cant be specifically accurate but --- From the Bon Bon towards the right, a couple of houses. The stream which crosses Coventry Road and goes along the rear of Thurlston Ave. Next, set well back from Coventry Road, one or two shops then the Barber. A couple more shops then a driveway with...

Attached photo Yardley District Management Team at a Butlins Conference approx 1957. Harry & Evelyn Adams. Arthur Painter. My Mother. Bert Graham (I think). And although the last one is familiar, I don't recall his name. OldBrummie

Age plays havoc with the memory so I am having difficulties remembering exact dates and names. I started Cubs sometime in the late 40's, joining 1st Olton. Mom was taken on to be Arkela (have I spelt that right?), Dad joined up as "driver and general go-for" and once we got going my younger...