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I`ve only just realised that the smaller of the two girls is holding a cricket bat and not as I thought, a stick. The older girl is probably holding the ball and she went on to be a very good cricketer and lifelong Warwickshire fan spending many, many hours at Edgebaston. Morturn`s magic with...

many thanks Morturn---I had absolutely no idea how to convert to jpeg, very kind of you.

This is my first attempt at uploading a photo, if it works the photo is of 104a Trafalgar Road in (I think) 1924. I`m dating it from the apparent ages of my aunts but it could be slightly earlier. I remember the house being exactly like this in the 1950s but it looks nothing like this now. There...

My grandparents certainly weren`t wealthy! Grandpa was one of the Randalls of Randall Bros. and Parsons on Smithfield market. 104A was a fair sized semi with a large garden and orchard, there was a strip of land (track?) at the side leading I think, to a junior school. Such a shame the original...

Lovely to see that someone remembers Randall Bros. and Parsons. My grandfather was the son of one of the original Randall Bros. and worked on the market all his life. Does anyone remember a tall chimney with "Randall Bros." written on it in red? It could be seen from the train as you approached...

Hello, I`ve just joined and found Shah`s post re no 86 Trafalgar Road. The Teasdale family living there were my 2x gt uncle, his wife and children. The house was called Mostyn Villa, Frederick was a cap merchant--"Teasdale and Co. Hatters" with two premises in Birmingham. My grandparents lived...