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The above pic shows the NCO's of one company 1st Bat CG incuding the CSM referred to in my last post. I still remember the time he put me in close arrest for missing a fire drill and on another occasion when I tried to grow a moustache he said I looked like a rat looking over a s..t house...

Taff Thomas ex Welsh Guards and DDay veteran 2nd from right we served together for many years

Me and my mate cut a regimental capstar in the grass outside our hut thinking we would get a recommend but all we got for our troubles was a rollicking for damaging the grass and put on a charge by the CSM. Happy days.

Training at Pirbright with the Coldstream Guards 1957 By best mate was Barry Rowlands from Winson Green we served together for 3 years and got into many scrapes last seen in 1959 I wonder if he is still around? aggieweston

I coy !st Batt Coldstream Guards at Chelsea Barracks 1959 on their return from Germany and taking up Public Duties.

White watch Central Fire Station Corporation St charity football match Christmas 1962.

Same location Swan Pub Yardley

To compliment the above picture Swan Pub Yardley 1947 fire engine and personnel from Wash Lane Fire Station

Auction for the National Fire Service Benevolent Fund outside the swan pub 1947

I am looking for a friend of mine Martin Green who joined Birmingham City Police in 1959 after service in the Coldstream Guards. I know its a long shot but I would really like to meet him again before I depart this world. Any information would be appreciated. aggie

The power of the internet continues to amaze me. So there were 4 people killed and not 2 as I thought. My father also told me that they were all killed in andersons shelters in the garden as kids we used to play in the crater and the bombed houses. Thanks for all the feed back but I would...

Hi mhemery. Thanks for getting back to me. No record shown for the swanhurst link, but it definitely took place. aggie

I was born at 222 heather road, small heath in 1939 and was bombed out in 1940(same raid as the BSA). The land mine which demolished the houses on the corner of heather road and somerville road killed two residents, damaged our house and trapped our family in the anderson shelter under tons of...

I was born in 1966 in Small Heath and spent almost every day in Digby Park from 1974 till 1978. Small Heath was then, as it is now, an inner city working class suburb suffering from high economic deprivation. It consists of rows of tightly packed Edwardian terrace houses. My elder brother...

I remember seeing a Balloon site in Digby Park Small Heath. My dad told me that a balloon broke away from its moorings and came down in Heather Road with its cables draped over the roofs of houses causing a great deal of damage. aggie

Thanks mate it looks as though I have got to buy a Kindle. John Purvin lived in Garrison Lane for 30 years, contracted TB and worked as a bookie, was arrested in the Malt Shovel taking illegal bets and eventually settled down to raise a family, sounds like a good read pity it's only on E Book...

I read in the Sunday Mercury that John Purvin who was born in Small Heath, has wrote his autobiography about his time in Small Heath titled "Look Dad I am Still Here" does anyone know where to get this book? aggie

Hi Handidave. Pictures of your granddad's chip shop as it is now.

Hiya, Just go to Midlands Historical Data (Google it) register with them and buy some credits and bob's your uncle. You will have access to loads of info on who lived where during a particular period. I will be passing St Benedict's Road next Friday so I will take a picture of the chip shop...

Electoral Roll for 1946