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Firkins are a West Bromwich based company that lost a number of branches when the company was rationalised. A family company they make superb bread and cakes ....and pineapple tarts that look delicious. I remember during the late 70s there was a flour shortage and bread was in short supply. I...

I dislike anything football with a passion but for the crack of it I clicked on the link and it opened perfectly with no threat warnings. I have both McAfee and Ad aware running live and they are usually very robust in warning me against iffy websites.

Physically disabled children were treated in mainstream childrens hospitals and I doubt whether data was collected to differentiate their care from other children. Mentally handicapped children were cared for in hospitals like St Margarets at Gt Barr, indeed many adults I met there in the 1970s...

Vietnam was indeed, like any war tragic but I feel you are making a number of assumptions where substantive evidence regarding numbers of Birmingham personnel, recognition of service and the allegation of lies to those that were killed is required.

Is Wrights egg farm known as Beacon Dairy Farm? If it is the farm I know they supply eggs to Beacon farm and indeed several butchers as far away as Brownhills. Whilst I have been travelling to my caravan in Kent most weekends I have bought eggs from a farm gate with a donation box attached to...

I use hand car washes frequently. But have you noticed how they often appear then vanish overnight? The vast majority of car washes in the Aldridge/Walsall/Brownhills area are run by East Europeans or those from Iran or Iraq. They work for far less than the mininum wage often having bed and...

1954 situp and beg Ford popular, matt grey. 6 volt elecrics meaning the headlights were like candles and I became very expert at using the cranking handle to start the beast. 3 forward gears, top speed of 60mph going downhill with the wind behind me. That was in 1967, so in love with the beast...

Re: Final Handsworth Photographs I think because these were the last of a series that Shortie took at Handsworth. There are lots of others on her previous threads on the event.

Re: More of Handsworth Cemetery Old age is a teriible thing, I meant Handsworth Shortie. There really isnt any hope for me!

Re: More of Handsworth Cemetery Hi Shortie Thank you for all your hard work posting. As I was going down your threads on the cemetery I found the answer to my question. Its been a long time since I visited Witton, Key Hill tends to get most of my spare browsing time but I must now make the effort.

Re: More of Handsworth Cemetery Lovely photographs thank you Shortie. The cemetery looks very well looked after, the lawns almost appear manicured. Was this an open day or some event ?

I know that it isnt, but the photo shows a remarkable resemblance to a garage near the church in Aldidge that has now been converted into houses for the well to do. Think it was called .... James Garage.

Absolutely brilliant Alf, havent laughed so much in a long time. How I love the Muppets.

I was so sorry to hear this very sad new lyn, my thoughts are with you and your family. Steve is with the angels now, the same angels will be watching over you as they alone will really understand the grief you must be feeling at this time.

What a fabulous dog. She had such sad, melt your heart eyes as a puppy. I hope she is having a birthday party today and has a cake made of fillet steak.......

The lines of stones were perhaps in situ so the pallbearers could get an adequate footing when shouldering the coffin. Many of the residents were buried in lead lined coffins which were very heavy.

The main antiseptic ingredient in carbolic is phenol which has been used as an executon method by the Nazis and a substitute for formaldehyde in embalming bodies. The original soap of the 40/50s contained concentrations of phenol in the range of 15-20% which in animal studies on mice proved it...

Memories do fade/become corrupt after 30 years but I am sure this is the portrait at the General. Mikes newspaper cutting states the portrait to be in the medical school. The postgraduate centre is an entirely different building (or was) so that suggests there are either 3 portraits in...

Colin B is very knowledgeable on hospitals in Birmingham, perhaps he can throw some light on their whereabouts. I am friends with some very senior managers in that hospital circuit and no one can answer the question. I was told 30 years ago when I worked there some portraits were painted by...

Drs Withering, Gamgee and Ash were three of the most famous General Hospital physicians. When I was working at BGH the main corridor was lined with oil portraits of these and other notables. Mikes cutting mentions a portrait of Withering together with his diploma in the med school so two...