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Hi Lyn, thank you for this, it throws a whole different light on dear Bertha. Forgive me, but you didn't send me the 1939 Eve of War register...did you?? As you said "if I look in the column that gives years of birth, it just gives 2 digits"; you sent me two print outs The 1901 Census and the...

Trivia: Lilly ( maybe one "L") was my mother IVY's auntie, ie Jacks sister, and she was the one that looked after my Mom when she was young. Mom always looked up to Aunt Lil, because she loved theatre, and used to take young Ivy to the Hippodrome or the Alex, and the Aston Hipp, when she was a...

Again...Thank you ladies. Are you sure I haven't become a nuisance for you? I seem to have taken so much of your time with my family. I am so grateful ladies. I am learning every bloomin day Thanks to you. x

Another Wow!. I will talk to you tomorrow, you guys are The Tops! G x

Wow! You are putting my family tree research to shame Ha,ha. Yes, Lucy had: in age order; John,Hilda,Violet,Ronnie, Billy and Irene. I know that Violet ( known as CHICK) married my Dads brother John Taylor, and she lived with us, while John Taylor was away at war with my Dad, Charles Harry...

Fantastic; I don't think you realize how helpful this is to me at my age, I am so grateful to you both. This information may well prove invaluable to my own children. This is like "Who do you think you are" on TV Now, it did make me wonder ladies.....Simple Minded? ..... a tick next almost all...

You ladies are Marvelous, I wouldn't have known where to start...I shall certainly look further into this. Bless you guys. Gerry

Interesting fact. Grandad died in I think 1988. in Tamworth, Irwell close? His full name was John Joseph Hill. His father was JJ Hill a Tamer of Beasts, also with Pat Collins Fairs & Menagerie. Grandad was well known round the rag market and sharpened scissors and blades on a converted bike...

Yes.....oops! She said she will send it to you., Soz. Gerry

Lyn. I have DM'd you Thanks. Gerry

Sorry not sure about that. G.

Gerry here. Yes Grandads "Bungalow", was well down Gelenavon Road, I was only seven or eight, and traveled on my own from Great Barr, into town on the Midland Red 119, then walked into either Carrs Lane or Alberts Street, or sometimes down into Bradford Street and caught the number 50. As I...

Thank you. G.

Wow! That is a wonderful find. Thank you so much, as this was the ONLY building of its type, it has to be THE wooden house I remember as a child. Just wanted to Thank you so much ladies, great research where I would not have been able to to look. Kind regards, Gerry ps was there another part to...

That is kind of you Lyn. He was Jack Hill (John Joseph Hill) and my Nan was Kate Elizabeth Hill (nee Smith); its worth a try I suppose. If anything cops up, let me know. Kind regards, Gerry

Thanks Lyn. The picture you have posted IS the right end, as the Main Road where I used to get off the bus is in view. You can see how the shops sit UP ON BANK, that is raised from street level; and that is where my Grandad's wooden house stood, but a little further down Glenavon Road. Thanks so...

Hi Lyn. Just to explain. Grandad and Nan were Romany Gypsy stock, and had lived in Vardo caravan at Chadwick End; they had to leave, and thats when Grandad actually made ( built with his own hands) a little wooden house. think of a PRE-FAB but made out of wood and roofing felt. ( I know, I...

Hi. As a very young lad, I would get off the number 50 bus from city, at Glenavon Road, Kings Heath. My Grandad had built a wooden house on the grass bank on the right hand side as you walked from the main road. I desperately want to see IF any pictures of Glenavon Road back then exsist? Many...

I recall the MUSIC BOX at the Six Ways end of High Street,m where I used to buy all my 78" records. I loved the place. Anyone remember it?

My how it has changed. Thanks for posting.