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Hi I too remember Russell Lucock as being a man you could talk to, when I progressed from decorating the factory in Camden St to his private home around Lydiate Ash you could always have a sensible chat with him about the work in hand without feeling inferior. As a kid from Arthur St Small...

Hi Georgejan. Are you and I living in a parallel universe? Every part of your posts I have lived myself but perhaps four years before you, the Schools, the Cinemas all the names that I remember from my years at 8/90 Arther Street keep popping up but the most weird thing of all is that I moved to...

hi georgejan. sorry the name does not ring any bells but I must have passed very often as my good friend Geoff Harriss lived in Bolton Road but I can not recall the number. Regards Acklam19.

Hi. My mother met my father in the queue outside the Bordesley Palace and she always said she hated him for his bright red carrot coloured hair but something must have clicked as they married in 1936 and had six of us and unfortunately I got the red hair which has thankfully turned to silver...

Hi Sistersue61 Would you ask your dad if he remembers Charlie and Jane Burgess and their daughters who lived in a huge house towards the top oposite the builders yard in Victoria St and also my Uncle Jim Hewitt who sang in the Vine most weekends and when in full voice you hear him in Victoria...

Hi Astoness Many thanks for the super picture of St Johns I think it was the nearness of the pub that would have attracted my people to that particular church with the excuse of wetting the babies head. Regards Acklam19.

Hi Astoness Would the cross on the building opposite Birds Custard belong to St Johns Church demolished in about 1947 as I have never seen a photo of this church were many of my Ancestors were Baptised. Regards Acklam.

Hi all. My contact with City Window cleaners was working on the property in Salisbury Road Moseley were I carried out the building repairs and to us the lady there was known as "auntie" she was the aunt of the Boss of the firm I subcontracted to hence the name.The big Victorian house I think was...

Hi Brock. I too lived in Arthur St 8/90 from 1939 to 1955 and I think that tall block of flats are built on the exact spot. Because the houses were so small two up and two down the sleeping arrangements were my mom and four sisters in the main bedroom and myself and dad in the box room (well...

Hi Beamish. You may well be right as the two names caused confusion going way back. Your second photo I think was taken from under Bordesley Park Rd railway bridge and so would make that V junction the joining of Dixon Rd and Bolton Rd if that is correct then my good school friends Bryn and...

Hi all I lived at 8/90 Arthur St Small Heath and the Butler St I remember was about 100yrds futher up and on the corner was the Model shop, on the oppisite corner was the local grocery store (Mrs Wimbush or Mrs Williams?) half way up was Wedges where we changed our Acumalaters and just before...

Hi all The name A E Harris Camden St certainly bought back long forgotten memories of when I started out as a Decorator in the 1950s, when the winter came it was a regular job to go and Limewash the Press shops and being only fifteen at the time it was my job to paint under the work bench's...

Hi all I remember Pig bins being our main source of amunition in Arthur St Small Heath when "our Gang" took on their gang from the bottom half of the street the only problem was the bin was nearer to them so we had to dodge the first salvo and collect the wet loaves etc before we could send it...

Hi all In the 1960s I worked at the farm cottage which was to the right of the big house almost hidden from the road. In the cottage lived the widow of the chap who used to farm the land for the Birds and she told me some wonderful tales about the life they had way back then and on the living...

Hi All I had call to look up two St Mary deaths and this is what you get in the way of info and quality.(attached) Acklam 19 unable to reproduce unknown image.

Re: James Hewitt Hi Lou I am the the Grandson of James Hewitt, my father was his youngest son John Henry born August 1914. I have quite a few odds and ends you are welcome to if you want and I suppose you know that we are decended from canal boat people, sorry I have not been in touch before...

Hi Both. Many thanks for the info, its as near as I will get I suppose but it ties in nicely with the rest of their lives which was spent in the Bordesley district of Brum. Regards Acklam19.

Hi All. You may remember me from a previous life when I called myself Steerboy but I moved to Wootton Wawen two years ago and this will be my first querie under my new name. I was at B.ham Library today in search of my ancestor Letitia Mole1822 who was buried in St Mary's Whittall Street on...