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Hi Bammot, thank you for your reply. It seems that this John Taylor had a lot of fingers in various pies - interesting man. I've got a lot of JT in my family and I'm trying to see if he is part of it. They were all around Bordsley/Small Heath for a long long time. Sheri

Hi everyone, Not sure if I'm in the right place. I was looking at the thread on B'ham's oldest house and the connection with the Lloyd of Lloyds Bank. Then, can't remember the site, I came across his partner was button manufacturer John Taylor. As I have John Taylor's in my family(several), I...

Hi Judy, Yes you were a few years after me. The cinema we went to was in the opposite direction to wht Warley - near to where the no. 9 bus terminated. Thanks for your reply. Sheri

Hi Judy 39, I used to go to that Milk Bar opposite the Holly Bush every Sunday night after the pictures - this would be about 1956/57. The cinema was the Odeon?? at Quinton. Opposite this cinema about 1954/55 was a transport caff and they had a jute box which is where I first heard Elvis. Sheri

It was very interesting to see the 1930@s map with Woodgate on it - I lived about 15 minutes walk from Woodgate village as a girl. There was a farm opposite our road until a few years after the war when it was developed into a housing estate. We spent many hours playing in those fields...

Thanks Di - it took me back too - my first boyfriend took me to see Johnny Ray - I was about 14. I couldn't remember where the concert was held. I had the programme for years after. He was my favourite until Elvis came along. Lovely stuff. Sheri

good morning Mikejee and Sospiri, Thank you so much for the info - you are right the spike & staple maker is my great uncle & the ivory turner is his son - who died by age 40? - so JB must have taken on the shop when he was older - he'd died by 1891. The problem with this family thay causes...

Hi malvern & sospiri, thanks very much for your help. I got the info that John Blackham was a shopkeeper at 13 Holloway Head from White's Directory of B 'ham 1869 but it didn't say what was sold there. As I live in London it's not possible for me to visit the library very often. Sheri

Hi. Many thanks to Sheronb,pmc1947,mikejee for the information you all posted. It's so interesting to see photos of where my family walked - I don't suppose the houses have changed much from the outside. Sheri

I wonder if someone can help - in 1869 my gt.uncle John Blackham was a manufacturer of 'spike,staple & nail heads' at ct4.Hill St. - he also was a shopkeeper at 13 Holloway Head. Can anyone tell me what he sold in the shop. Thank you in advance. Sheri

It's me again. Where in B 'ham was this road and is it still there? Sheri

Hi, I was most interested in this thread as my gt.grandfather lived at 293 Bell Barn Rd. according to 1891 census - he was a b lacksmith. Would he have had a forge on the premises? The houses didn't look big enough. Sheri

I was looking after my grandson while my daughter did a bit of shopping. She came rushing back and said put the tv on - I thought it was a film at first, then realised it was real, watching it in horror. I said to her it would change the world and so it has, in ways we could not have imagined...

I'm glad someone mentioned going to see Bill Haley at the Odeon. It was wonderful and I've never forgotton it - my parents were amazed that I got up so early - even then all the cheaper seats had gone and we had to pay £5 guineas old money which was more than I earned. Of course I had gone to...

Hi Susen, I don't have an Albina Blackham nor a William/Ellen but that dosen't mean they are not there because I'm sure there are a lot more children than I've got recorded. But I have a lot of connections with Tipton/Rowley Regis/Dudley/Birmingham. The Blackham family is large and there are...

Hi wendy, Thank you so much for the information and the photos - shame such a beautiful church was demolished. I will send for the certificate which I hope will give me the info I need. Sheri

I wonder if someone could help with this marriage. On 29th November 1875, William Henry Johnson married Kezia (Kazia) Sutton at Sparkbrook - was this a village in those days? I need to know the names of their father's and if poss. witnesses to be sure I've got the right family - Have been...

My gt. grandfather lived in Bell Barn Road at 293 in 1891 - I thought it was near the city centre as it's in Market Hall Ward but I don't know where Edgebaston stretched to, probably further than I thought. Sheri

Hi Albany Sharon, Than k you for posting this web site. I found it very interesting - haven't had time to read it all but it will be useful to my research. Sheri

I remember going on the pier when went on a day trip from B irmingham by train - a special offer - when was 17. It is very sad to see what has happened, but I hope it will rise again like the 'Pheonix risi ng from the ashes'. Sheri