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I am delighted for him but was this awarded for services to football or some more contemporary activity? If it was for football it has been an awful long time coming.....about 60 years.

Bless. That was reported 38 years ago, the probability is both are now reunited having their pint on the other side. How times and prices change, few could affford to drink 10 times a week now.

The front of the hospital is a grade 2 listed building, hence why it had to be incorporated in the leisure complex. As far as I am aware, the frontage never housed patients but contained the boardroom and administration offices. The main ward block was attached behind the frontage with an...

And dont forget carbolic soap! This was mentioned sometime ago on here and out of interest I bought 6 tablets off Ebay as apparently some of the chemicals used in its production were carcinogenic, the reason its production had been halted. For me, the memory was more attractive than the...

Operation Market Garden (Arnhem) was fought between the 17-25 September 1944. They were indeed heroes.

Key Hill and Warstone Lane cemeteries are but a stones throw from Dudley Rd.

Keep them coming Wendy, I find the provenance of grave residents absolutely fascinating. For me this has to be the most interesting thread on the forum. The expertise of Alberta, mikegee and others in their detective work is amazing, I would not have a clue where to start! Those that could...

What brilliant detective work by Alberta and mikejee! To my knowledge this is the second photograph you have published Wendy and been able, throught the experts on here to find so much fascinating information about the inhabitants of the grave. I look forward to the next interesting photograph...

Thank you for posting the picture lyn, it never ceases to amaze me where you find these "ever so interesting " shots. The circumference of the crater suggests the bomb didnt explode or was a very small device. The shop windows behind the crater are also undamaged. If it was an undetonated...

That drawing is superb, you are very talented. This thread caught my eye because my dad was in B Company Parachute regiment during the last war, jumping in Africa, Italy and Arnhem. I thought those with an interest in the regiment would like to see the attached photos I loaned to the author of B...

Hi Shortie Brian told me the public graves in earth at the far end of the catacombs are estimated to be 40 feet deep. Imagine the mechanics of laying one layer of coffins, infilling for the next layer and so on till the graves were full. It does make economical sense to have vaulted graves as...

The buried memorials and the workman!

Visited Key Hill on Monday and took the attached photos. The first group are of the memorial to those exhumed in the mid nineties for the metro line. Hopefully the inscriptions will be legible for those searching for names. I also took a shot of memorials that had been buried and were in the...

What an interesting medal Wendy, thank you for sharing it with us all. Strangely, if it were not for the mortuary chapel it would be difficult to relate the depicted scene to the present day Key Hill. The catacomb levels appear higher than were actually constructed, very much like the design of...

An absolute disgrace. Not the work of yobs or vandals but scrap metal thieves, lead being a very valuable commodity. Inside the memorial there once existed a circular plaque set on a plinth that gave a positional location of the surrounding countryside. This was stolen years ago but Im unsure as...

Im sure the first tower blocks went up in about 1956. I started infant school that year and remember watching the huge tower crane over the block during the construction. All long before the underpass, Birchfield road was awash with large imposing Edwardian/Victorian gentlemans residences...

I too did my stint as a butchers boy. Monday to Friday 4-6 then all day Saturday. Not allowed to front of house my work was entirely in the back room. Boiling huge hams in a copper, scrubbing the wooden blocks till they were perfect and keeping the freezers tidy. I remember a 25lb turkey that...

What a wonderful history of the Rum Runner. In the early 1970s a group of us spent most Friday nights drinking far too much German lager in Bogarts Beer Keller then moving enmass to the Rum Runner till kicking out time at 2 am. I cant remember too much about the place as I was far too tipsy...

I too spent many happy hours sorting through the many auto jumble boxes at Fletchers. They were taken over a number of years ago but continued to trade under the original name. Following the take over the store lost much of its auto ambience and became like a branch of Halfords with prices to match.

This link names several of the fatalities but I have been unable to find any definitive list on google. https://www.gtj.org.uk/en/small/item/GTJ60284/