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I should imagine he served in Montreal with the British forces that fought off an American Invasion of Canada in 1812 - whilst we were tied up fighting Napoleon's forces in Spain. That was the campaign where we burnt the original American White House - the one they have today is a replacement...

Often passed the place when working at Tyseley on B.R. end of '71 and through '72. when we went off in the gang lorry to wherever we had to work that day. Often saw a few chaps still hanging around in the hope of someone hiring them for the dy.

Cheers Eddie - will keep a look out for it. Brian

The more history you read, you realise the more things do not really change! Bet he had few tales to tell, her Gran, like most of her era, never really spoke about the past - too busy trying to keep alive in the present! Is the book a recent publication? Brian

My wife's grandmother's 1st husband fought at Atbara with the 1st Warks. He had joined in 1893 aged 19. Served in Britain Jan 1893 - Oct 1894 Ceylon Oct 1894-Mar 1896 Malta Mar 1896 - Jan 1897 Egypt Jan 1897 - Oct 1898 East Indies Oct 1898 - Apr 1905 Home & Discharged April 1905 Received the...

Joanne Malin mentioned it on the lunch news - not into receivership yet, but they are bankrupt in China?

1) It may cost extra if there are Headstones, etc to remove 2) It may cost extra if it's in the middle of the plot and they cannot get their JCB next to it - have to be hand dug. 3), probably costs more because of care to be taken - not breaking into adjacent grabs, or previous underlying...

Cheers Stars - keeping busy with my tree - I have to find them - not like Lin - the trees come to her! Just found Elizabeth's sister Emily is Housemaid to Robert Lucas Chance - him who's in Key Hill - of Chance Glass - who did the 1851 Great Exhibition glass work! Where would all these great...

Cheers Lin! A lot better than most of his parishioners!

Inherently, just discovered this morning that a distant cousin of mine, Elizabeth Bolus, born 1842, Coleshill is the Housemaid in 1861 of the Rector of St Georges! Looks like he is Rev'd William Locking, (Ancestry has him as Reed William Cooking!) of 142 Hockley Hill. He has 7 children, Cook...

Very well decked out! Those were also the days it was a public road and you go down it - later they presumably purchased it, and put gates at each end, refusing access for non workers.

Even most of the grass has gone - great tracts of hardened soil where hordes hang out during the day - waste of all that work - may just as well tarmacked the place for the care the public gives it nowadays! Bri

Absolutely Magnificent interior! Great find Lyn. Bri

Bert, only just seen this. Father of a friends of my wife, came from Enfield - sent up to work at IMI (Kynochs), Witton making ammunition - they sent a core of skilled chaps from the Gunpowder Mills and Enfield Factories to set up a production line. Strangely his wife to be, was sent from Leeds...

Great pic Lyn, Looks like the boxes just have Mills Munitions Ltd, Birmingham? Maybe the captioner, misunderstood and googled Mill St? Mill St was an extension of Chester St, but the other side of Dartmouth St to Aston Rd North, backing onto the Canal, by AB Row. AS you say though - they were...

Much more decorated than when I left it in 66. I assume that's one of the infant classrooms? I went over to the annex for 2nd & 3rd year Juniors returning to the main school for 4th year. The annexe was just 4 classrooms in Stainsby Ave, off Gt King St/Smith St - just a few minutes walk one way...

Great choice of pics Lin! My neighbour in Little King St pre 1966 worked at Hampstead Colliery - used to come home covered with the coal dust ! My wife's Aunt lived at the back of Dents garage - she used to pop in for dinner when at Manor Park Girls school, and we lived in Birchfield 1976-1987...

Re: st marys chapel loveday st Lyn - there re no names listed [n the Burial Register - presumably the old area was dug up for foundations, etc, and any remains found were boxed up and reinterred. This would be the 'usual' practise at the time. It would not have been a Time Team type excavation...

Re: st marys chapel loveday st In Corridor 9 of the Catacomb at Warstone Lane are approx. 150 Coffins shown in the Burial Register as - ST MARY’S Reburial of Box containing remains from St Mary’s, Whittall St., Birmingham. All Burials occurred during 1952/1953 - No individual names are shown...

Sorry Smudger, Didn't realise you lived in foreign parts. Most of us would like to revisit our Parents with what we now know - probably still won't get the answers we would like though! Brian