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Hi all your help required if possible. I have querie regarding some family members who ended up in Aston Workhouse in 1911. My William Baxter B.1859 and his family is clearly shown in the 1911 census Summary book as living at their long time address at 44 Wharton St Nechells but then on the 1911...

Hi Astoness & Mike.Thank you both for your kind help, the map is brilliant as it shows the court dead opposite were he would have gone every day to his work at Bordesley Street Wharf where as I said he was a Boatman on the canals. I will add it to my family tree files if thats OK. Regards Acklam19

Hi all My GGG grandparents were married from Bordesley St in 1876 and most of their eight children were born at 8 House 11 Court but I think it would have been at the " rough end" of the street as the ones in the pictures look to be quite posh and he was just a Boatman Regards Acklam19

Hi All I too have found what I hope is my Grandfathers name J Hewitt on the memorial,he died of wounds 19 August 1915. He spent all his early life in the Fazeley St and Bordesely St area where his people were Boatmen, I was wondering if there is any way I could confirm it his army number was...

Hi all. I remember working on Moor Street Warehouse from about 1956 to the early 1960s and then the huge horses that used to pull the railway delivery carts would travel up Shut Lane morning and evening with showers of sparks off their hoofs as they tried to get a grip on the wet cobble stones...

Hi Carol C. This photo was taken in the playground at Oakley Road School of my class in 1954. Regards Acklam19.

"The entry" saved me at one time I was about ten and had got in a fight with some lad when all of a sudden his Mother appeared with a wild look in her eye and headed for me with a scream,needless to say I legged it as fast as I could with this very large lady on my tail.She almost had me when I...

Hi lucy2811 You should find that the company who were at that address were Flair Photography who took over Dubarrys in I think the late 1990s.I did all the refurb on the old shop for them in the arcade at that time as they wished to keep the Victorian look. They were a wonderful outfit to work...

Re: Did you have Anyone who Served in Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry 2nd Battalion. Hi Christy My wifes uncle served in the 2nd Batt DCLI,he was certainly with them in 1933 as the Absent Voter list shows,his name is George Baxter,Private.5435802 and at the time he was living at 351 Witton...

Hi All. This is my favourite in my collection it shows my father (top left) with his sister and four brothers but it is not very good quality. They were all "hard cases" in their own way as their father was killed in WW1 and had to fend for their mother as well as each other. I have to smile...

Hi Jennyann. Thank you for your interest, I have James record from CWG site downloaded and in his file. thanks Acklam19.

This is my Grandfather Private james Hewitt who died of wounds 19 August 1915 aged just 32. There is a small article on him in the Birmingham Daily Post dated 7 September 1915 it reads...... Mrs J Hewitt of 1 back 16 St Andrews Road has received notification that her husband Pte James Hewitt...

Hi MWS Thanks for the tip about military records I have just spent several hours looking into some of my WW1 ancestors and they throw up some real nitty gritty items unfortunatley the one I really wanted that of my Grandfather James Hewitt 10688 of the South Staffs who DOW 19 Aug 1915 was not...

Hi all I wonder if anyone could help me fill in some gaps in my Baxter tree. George Baxter was born about 1904 the son of Ellen(Nellie) B 1868 in Wolverhampton and William Baxter B1851 of Stafford they may have been living in Wharton Street Duddeston at the time as William was a labourer at...

Hi frenchfries111. I know its a bit late now but I have only just read your letter and the names you are after are in my family tree. I have a copy of Violets marriage cert with her living at 17 Banbury St and her new husband at No 13 his name is Joseph William Johnston, the witness's are George...

Hi All. My memories of the Hunters Moon take me back to the years 1960/63 when on a Saturday night they would have a Free & Easy,there was a lady who sung "Bobbies Girl" every week and was a cue to send all us men to the Gents and also a guy named John who gave a fair version of the big hit of...

Hi Pudding. yes Mr Mason was a nice guy, I also worked for his sister at Barnt Green and she was great too. You may be right about Pritchett St but to be honest I was thinking Princip St that is why I put Aston. At Aston they produced the Garden Sprayer and the Rotary Washing line,to date when...

Hi Pudding I did not work for ASL as such but did lots of decoration work on the new factory in Eliot St when first built and prior to that the factory in Aston around the early sixties. It meant that I had lots of contact with Mr Mason? and Mr Pye who incidently had me thrown of the site for...

Hi all. I worked at Moseley Park in the 1970s, because the vandals kept breaking into the sports pavilion and pushing the tennis court rollers into the lake at the bottom of the hill someone in authority decided to open up the Ice House and make a secure home for the rollers. The job entailed...

Hi 11kilo This is how I found a photo of my Grandfather when none existed in the family. He was KIA in September 1915 so I looked in the newspaper achives at Bham Library and found him in the Birmingham Weekly Post between the dates June 1915 and January 1916 and along with him were the photos...