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Thank you so much for looking MWS, John, Wendy and Bewdley - it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. i live in London and can't get to Birmingham often. I may have to give this up as I have been looking for years - I know who both John and Richard married. I have another family with the...

Over the years I have looked for the parents of my gt.gt.grandfather - what I don't understand is why when he was born 1795/96 Birmingham - he's there on Family Search but no parents are shown - why arn't they shown? His name is John Blackham. Also there is a Richard Blackham b.aprrox 1803...

I wanted to see those programmes but don't have Skye what a disappointment. Sheri

Bread dipped in egg and fried were called egg pieces in my family and still are - very popular. Sheri

Hi Peter, My gt. uncle was in the Worcester Hussars (yeomanry) - don't know the battalion - he was Frederick James Bray and he died in Eygpt/Palestine, his memorial is on the Jerusalem Memorial in Israel - he was 23 years old, married with a very young son. I would love to know more about him...

Thank you Ken for sharing your teasured letters and photos. So sad your uncle was killed. I have a letter from my Gt. uncle who died in WW1 in Egypt/Palestine - what touches me is the cheerfulness of the letters troops sent home no matter what they were going through. I suppose didn't want to...

I know this is the wrong place but although I can access this site which I love Mike, but I cannot access the whole site - Google keeps coming up 'not found' and I don't know how to get it back. Sheri

My mother married in 1937 and she stopped working - I think it was normal then. She soon went back as my dad was unemployed/shortime for a week or two. Then they started to re-arm for WW2 so he then worked long hours. Sheri

Can't say I'm that fond of Eddy Izzard as a comedian but then don't like many anyway. I was more interested in the process the search for the genetics. Sylvia the only thing I can think of was that DNA evolved or were affected by the changes in the environment in those regions perhaps lack of...

I watched 'Meet the Izzards' both ephisodes - and really enjoyed it. It seems that most blue eyed people stem from the Black Sea area, as all my family are blue-eyed i think I should go and meet the rellies. Very good programme. Sheri

I was born at Quinton and have many happy memories of the Danilo (no TV) which I went to often as a child. I saw Gone with the Wind the first time there and once we were coming back from our holiday on the No. 9 bus and it went past I saw they were showing Calamity Jane - i made a bit of a fuss...

These snippets from the newspapers is always interesting - the striker's article was of significance to me as my paternal family were blacksmiths. Many thanks Mike, Sheri

I remember 1963 well - all the things that have already been said - but I did have a bucket of frozen nappies!! Sistersue is right about the kids at school today - they do have to carry their coats with them so my grandson refuses to wear his - goes in just his blazer as do many others that...

So interesting Mike - round St.Giles has all been rebuilt with a big modern office's - but Drury Lane is quite narrow and it's easy to imagine what it was like many years ago - not 'stews' now. Sheri

Frederick James Bray in Queens Own Worcester Hussars - private age 23. Memorial on Jerusalem Memorial in Israel. (gt uncle) Frederick John Bray of Kings Norton of the Royal Warwicks - memorial Thiepval - (cousin) Many of my families lost young men so we must Remember them. Sheri

Hi Ladylinda, Thank you so much - that's exactly the info I needed. No wonder I couldn't find the marriage with 'Mr Priddy' - as Gertrude's children always called him (my mother hated him!!) I always thought his name was Harry - when Gertrude died her 3 children had to leave their home - I...

In 1911 my grandparents lived at 13 House, Court 17 Watery Lane, Small Heath. They were Harry and Gertrude Sophia Johnson. I've looked but can't trace them after 1911. I was wondering if the numbers changed? Harry died in 1917 so Gertrude would have been there on her own with her children...

An Oliver man was someone who pressed a stamp into hot metal. My gt. grandfather was a kettle maker who became an Oliver man. Sheri

All my families seem to have lived in the courtyards and yards of Birmingham in the 19thc so it has been fascinating to see these old photos they give you an idea of how hard their lives were. So thank you for posting them. Sheri

I was so interested in the reports about the 'ragged schools' in Vale St as my great grandparents lived there and other relatives in Hill St - I wonder if any of the children went to those schools? A bit of history. Many thanks Mike Sheri