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Hi All. An update on the cottage. A nice man called Dave has bought it and is busy restoring it back to how it was with small alterations such as removing the added on bits and replacing them, then he is going to remove all the old rendering and recover it.At the moment he is waiting on the...

Hi Lingard. I have spoken to Malcolm a few weeks ago and he said he would look for any old picures. I told him about this website and the interest in the house but he is too upset about what happened to the house after it was originally sold and the way it was neglected and doesn't want to be...

Hi Keith. Welcome to this site, you will find many people who will be only to glad to help you with any research you need about "Happy Valley" I live in Billesley and am writing a book about Billesley, I am also Chairman of "The Valley Riverside Project" on Billesley Common. If you want to meet...

They used to park buses in Nelson Rd next to the Villa grounds, this pic could also be Nelson RD

Hi Lingard. I will get in touch with Malcolm Leonard who's mom was the last person living there, he will have some pictures i'm sure

I am searching for info on Norman Gidney who lived in Eastham Rd. Billesley. He attended Billesley Infants School and went on to become a multi millionaire. I know about the collapse of his empire and the monies from the Pension Fund. What I need is his life from School to Millionaire! His...

Yes, the TV shops owner was Lesley Smiths, just couldn't remember it!When we moved in the land on the corner of Bevington/Trinity Rd was already being cleared ready for the building of the Health Centre.The newsagants was on the corner of Bevington/Trinity Rd. I remember when Severn Trent dug a...

WE lived at 131 Bevington Rd from 1968 till 1990,just up from the junction of Whitehead Rd. I remember the old surgery, they built one over the road in Trinity Rd & called it a Health Centre. Remember Beebees shop,wouldn't pass todays hygiene inspections!.If you had a TV from the shop at the...

I have contacted the West MIdlands Police Museum to see if they have any info, I have found out it occurred in April 1964.

Thanks to a person who lived in Chells Grove I now know that it was a Mrs Maureen Hill, aged 37 with 4 children who had only moved in a few days before, still awaiting more info.

Hi All. Here are two pics of my father in the Home Guard, problem is I don't know where he was based, it might have been Hall Green or Kings Heath, if anyone can identify the pics or people I would be grateful.My father is at the end of the table in the "Home Guard" pic and third from the left...

When will they ever learn ? Our lads go out so full of hope To fight a war so far away Again they go so ill equipped When will we ever learn? We fight a foe we do not know A people who wish that we would go A culture alien to us all When will we ever learn? Then fight us using homemade bombs...

Hi Pete. I couldn't raise 100-000 pennies nowadays! Enforced retirement...........

When I saw the building up for sale it was discribed as "Billesley Farm" and it stated as a 18th century building with outhouses asking price was under £100-000, then a few years later over£150-000!

I have found the pics! The house shown was demolished in the 1920s to build the housing estate. The Google map shows in the centre the site of the building called Billesley Farm.It's the oblong building in the centre. If you follow the road along you will see a gap between the houses, this is...

There is a house callled Billesley Farm behind Brook Lane it was advertised for sale a few years ago, it's a 18th centery building and it has outhouses. To access it you go down a drive between two houses. It's NOT the old Billesley Farm shown on old maps that stood in what is now Wold walk rd...

Hi Max. I did see the exhibition at Sarehole Mill but I was very disappointed with what was there! That catalogue is available as a friend of mine has it, I believe it was bought off Ebay. When I went to see it the area was all taped off and I was told to just go into the roof area and to ignore...

It's with deep regret that I see in the Birmingham Mail tonight that Ralph Broad has died aged 84.I never met the man but I always admired him. R.I.P Ralph...........

Great pics. soon be time for the weather to resemble them

Hi Paul. The Farm was located in South Birmingham on the border of Moseley and Billesley near the juction of Yardley Wood Rd and Swanshurst Lane in the B13 area, there is a park there now called Swanshurst Park