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We aim to please! All we need now is for these items to be uncovered! ( That would be just too much to ask!!) As a footnote, I did find the patents for myself; I didn't find any other inventions. But shortly after, poor chap suffered 2 or 3 strokes and past away in 1923. Perhaps there are other...

Glad to help! Some people will find they have the same number! Lu

I was interested to note that you can browse and search 1970's phone directories on Ancestry, on standard membership. Apologies if already mentioned. Reminding us of our own or a friend's previous address and number. Lu

You took the words out of my mouth Aidan!.... .....Mike, Embarrassingly,I have tried to find this, but unsuccesssful. I shant be beaten though! You're amazing, that's really wonderful, thank you! I'll have to see if he invented anything else! I'll put up his photo, if i can find it. All the best Lu

Thanks Mike and Humph I've just googled this and got a list of old patent numbers https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-oldnumbers.htm This shows that the patent number 140697 was between 1920 and 1921. So this fits in with Vale and Charles, electroplate manufacturers, 'Whitvale' tradename must have been...

Hi folks, Trying to answer my own query! I've had a look in old newspapers on Lancashire libraries site , most were too old, no luck. Found antique and vintage shaving brushes; couldn't see any like this. Have you seen a similar item? Lu

Thanks Stan, We guessed it was probably between the wars. Good detective work. Lu

Hi folks, I've done abit of googling, but not sure if i'm able to find out more about this myself. My mum tells me that her grandfather, George Fordyce Clark,born 1866, apparently invented this shaving brush. She found this newspaper cutting advertising it. The address for its purchase is...

:DThis is brilliant, Mike, thanks! I hope you find this as fasinating as I do. I thought this baking connection may help me work out where the Jessops ancestors lived pre William and Mary( nee Mayou) and wonderful to see Yorkshire bakers and flour merchants you found. Interesting as it appears...

These are my Jessops, as promised earlier. I'm just going to rewrite a message that some how I lost!!??

Celia I believe that Robert Baden Roach lived in Mary Road opposite my father's parents later on , perhaps in the 1960's. Yes, they are likely to be related. Anyway just thought I'd ask in case you had any Jones ancestors that you weren't sure of! I'd like to find out about any evacuation...

Just checked in the 1861 census, 163 Bromsgrove St, Mary (nee Mayou) Jessop was pikelet baker after her fruiterer husband, William Jessop, born 1790, had died. They had lived at 81 Livery St in 1851. Lu

Yes, please Mike, that would be interesting, especially as I suspect all the Jessops here were related. The family was in Birmingham a couple of generations before but the pikelet making seems to have been started by John or Hubert's gran. i'll check her name. I would also be interested if...

Here they are, John Willie and family about 1910 Lu

Hi Celia I have a family of called Roach on my tree. Robert W. Roach was married to my gt grans sister,Lavinia Jones. Their son's middle name was Baden.Lived in Handsworth . Ring any bells? I didn't know much about Dad's evacuation, interestingly enough his gt uncle in the states offered him a...

Hi, You've all been really good to me. Thanks for the photos and explanation. This is a bit of a revellation ,Hubert Cornelius Jessop, I really wasn't sure if his name was Herbert where i've seen his name written. Mike what's your source for the Jessop Pikelet makers,can you confirm please? So...

Shortie Thanks for that, I'd no idea. I remember fondly standing on my gt aunt's balony of her penthouse flat looking down on Newtown and the centre of Birmingham. She pointed to show me where their family house had been before the slum clearance. Lu

Wow, Mike I'm amazed you've worked that out. It was quite a big house, do you think they lived above a shop, bakery or cafe? Or perhaps they made the pilelets/ muffins in the family kitchen. They had 5 children at this time. Thank you so much, I'll be popping these on my family tree for the...

Thanks, Moss It's good to glimpse into the past. Lu

Oh thanks, Mike I know were the Barton Arms is, Best regards, Lu