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nice link about post office bantams here apparently used sidecars as well .https://www.realclassic.co.uk/postoffice06080300.html

WOT MOI WENDY lol the only thing I can make out is the balustrade ..balcony at the back has a knights helmet in the middle have cropped picture it may help idenify it or maybe not ?:D:headhit:

Lynn I think it was a civic function and the gentlemen were discussing the rights of women in our male chauvinist gents clubs lol

Thanks Paul you may be right the fact he enlisted twice even on rejection on medical grounds says a lot for his character however we do know of some history as regards India but can not find anything at this time am trying to get picture of service medal etc to clear things up thanks for input ,,Tom

I always thought the municipal building had gone?.... just goes to show eyes open but not always seeing Ian lol

thanks Terry hell of a journey for them horses ? The offer of an official burial at Westminster Abbey was refused, and a Unitarian funeral ceremony was planned in Birmingham. On 5 July, Chamberlain's corpse was taken to Paddington Station and sent to Birmingham by train. The next day, the coffin...

Oxhill road nearby lol ?

Thanks Paul there is a little bit of confusion over Ernest he apparently served in India so would be a reservist ? but our documentation... army records ...show him as enlisting twice ? once for 65 days and once for 4 months nothing else... and yet there is a service medal belonging to Ernest ?

slade road erdington?

Hi all thanks to a members help now have discharge papers for Ernest Hadfield.... like most things it sheds some light on the subject but also raises a couple of questions ...at the top of the page there is an official stamp dated sep 27 1914 ? just below is another stamp dated 5 oct 1915 ?any...

Been a while Phil lol is it Dolmans garage winson green ?

Hi daverock thanks for reply my pc is playing up so am on Otherhalfs pc,,,, Maggie uk

I thin it unlikely to be the sandpits Chamberlain had a service at the Cathedral and his funeral route from there to Key Hill Cemetary woul have been via colmore row onto constituition hill so it could have been via Edmond st ? maybe ?

Anthea there were two golf courses one on the left (northfield road) which I used to walk through from school st marys Harborne and one on right which was the private course did you walk up stonehouse lane ?ans across the canal as was or as you say onto bottetourt and hence onto the square ...

heathy if you type in archway of tears in search box there are lots of threads relating to it and the hospitals

The New Talbot was THE CHALET so called because of the attached building at the rear where discos etc were held it was also known by other names as well lol but the Chalet it was.... it is still on the corner of Hagley rd Barnsley rd

thanks for that if you look at earlier post one of the pictures is there ...looked at the advertising pamphlet for the Weoley had a smile at the phone no ...as all local phone numbers started with HAR for Harborne

Great pictures as always of dereliction of interesting sites that could have been put to better use perhaps ... anyway they made me wonder about some of the New structures going up on this particular site ..Sites ? if there are that many tunnels and they have not been filled in ...as it were...

maybe when they build the new road they can get rid of the bottleneck there ..maybe ?

just had a look at the link good ... if you come to bottom of page you can play the reels one at a time wonder where the best washouses were ... after all it was 1928 so no sound ..cheers Tom