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I remember the Tower, the West End and the Lacarno very well. My dad used to stay up and come and meet me off the No. 9 bus and bring my flat heeled shoes, oh the relief!!! This was because we had quite along walk either through a park or down Spies Lane before it was widened, when it had over...

Barrie, thank you - it makes interesting reading - I wonder what she did? There's always another question isn't there. Sheri

I found a Sarah Bradley (may be an ancestor) she was born in 1662 in Old Swinford, Worcs. - she may have gone to Gloucester but died in Virginia in 1695 age 33. Why would she have been there? Would she have been transported? Just interested. (I got this info from FamilySearch. Many thanks...

Well said Lyn - I personally would miss the forum so much and really appreciate the help I've received. Keep up the good work. Sheri xx

How lovely to hear about such a positive story and its outcomes - hope your meetings with your other siblings are just as joyful. Well done Shortie. Sheri

Thank you all so much - on some births/marriages I was looking up some of them said Birmingham South and I was unsure where this was - I expect the relatives were in Kings Norton as a lot of them were there way back. I lived close to Woodgate as a girl - I could walk there in a few minutes...

I know someone on the forum can point me in the right direction - what area's are Birmingham South and North please - just a rough direction will do - I only B'ham 32. Many thanks, Sheri

Hi Lynne, I have a connection to my family - Zillah Pugh c. December 1806 at St. Martins - father Benjamin mother Sarah - she married Richard Blackham at St. Mary's Handsworth in December 1824. Hope it helps. Sheri

On my gt. grandparents wedding certificate it says both living in Howards Place. I looked on the address search on FMP but it didn't come up. Was it near Church St which I know was where the station is now. Many thanks, Sheri

My gt. grandmother Kezia Johnson lived at 10 Court, Greenway St. according to the 1901 census with her 3 daughters and my g.father Harry. I thought it must be Small Heath. Sheri

The BBC2 programme 'Reel History of Britain' had one from the 1930's where they talked to people in the 1930's who lived in back to backs although not in B'ham. The film showed what the houses were like!! We wouldn't want to live like that now. Sheri

I expect it was popular with my gt.grandparents too - they lived at 10 Thorpe St - there census's 1861/71. Sheri

It could have been a chop house - as Wendy said there were many types of eating places. Sheri

Hi Bernie, I think its Eating House Keeper. Sheri

Hi Paul, thank you for your reply - that's useful information - the records are on FMP but it is difficult to see, I know its at Kew just got to make the effort to go again. Sheri

have a gt.gt.uncle - Alfred Sutton b. 1840 who was a trained gun smith, I presume. He joined the army in Corps of Armourers in 1861, married a girl in London. He was posted to Canada on the 23rd April 1863 - he was there for some years as at least 5 children were born there - later he was...

Very interesting - the poor children, sentenced to such harsh treatment. What a pity there weren't more names on the photos. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them wasn't my bad boy gt. uncle Robert Nabbs. Sheri

Hello Astonian, Shortie, Clarkie and Dave 89 - thank you so much for your replies - its very kind of you to take the trouble. I hope you don't mind if I ask another question that is - does anyone know the Christian names of any of the Blackhams or Haywards so I can try and trace them. I...

Shortie thank you - I would like to trace them back on census's etc to see where the original connection - I'm sure there is another connection than the one of my gt. grandparents - Henry Blackham married Elizabeth Hayward in 1857 - I would like to get back before that if I can - his father was...

I had a bucket bag - also had to wear a liberty bodice the horrible rubber buttons dug into my legs when I sat down, it held up itchy kharki couloured long stockings that I was always falling over in - when I was ab out 8 I carried on so much I had three quarter socks and no more liberty...