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Thanks again Mike. If I remember rightly (and I have wet hair at the moment so can't look it up) Witton Lane was in 1891. Also is it possible that they did not wish to advertise in certain years? I have not gone back very far, but I have given some thought to the fact that Joseph Albert's...

Mike - thank you. This is much more than I had hoped for. He did have an oiringal butchers premises in Witton Lane, No 63 I believe. New Town Row came after and then at the same time he purchased the haulage business. I had no idea about the wine and spirit business at all. His son Percy...

I have just been doing some more digging Bernie - it appears he was a butcher originally and then bought a motor transport business (I don't know if the butchery business continued) - it was in Manchester Street, Aston, according to the telephone directory. Some mention of concrete was there...

The two occupations above don't seem to me to go together, but that is what the 1911 census tells the occupation of Joseph Albert Wells was. In 1911 he was living at 61 Albert Road, Aston. Would someone be able to tell me where the business was run from, and when it ceased to be, please...

Hi Chrissy, I can't help you there I am afraid. My husband has just reminded me that we were also members there, that's obviously why I can remember what it looked like inside, but I don't think we went more than a dozen times all told. We live 23 miles away, a long drive for a drink, don't...

I know the Limberlost - in Butler's Lane, Handsworth Wood (not Handsworth). My parents were members in the 1970's. It was a private club which closed either early 2011 or 2012. I think it started in a wooden building which, when land adjacent was sold, was replaced by a brick structure, and...

All the food waste from Tamworth along with garden waste, goes for composting - I understand it is at a farm which is not right on our doorstep. On television a few weeks ago was a processing plant for food waste, which turned all green waste into fertilizer etc. I am assuming that it is a...

The first posting on this thread makes a comment on a theory that Shakespeare may have spoken in an accent near to Brummie. There is something on the internet about Shakespeare OP - Original Pronunciation - where two men (I believe they may be actors, they are father and son), have taken...

Astonion, he was not buried on a car park site - he was buried, hastily, within the Greyfriars monastery church. It's just that the monastery was demolished and the car park eventually took its place. I am constantly amazed, when watching things like Time Team, just how near to the surface...

I wondered what that portico front was - I had assumed it was a hotel, so I got that bit right, but I was on the wrong corner!!

An early one of Bull Street/High Street junction?

Andrew - personally I doubt if the family and the doctor discussed these things to be honest. As you can see from my posting above, senility does not mean mental incapacity, just old age, and as I have also said Rubery Hill took on chronically sick patients (my own gt gt grandmother with a...

Perry Barr Crem opened in 1903. At one time it was owned by the Council, but when refurbishments were needed to comply with new rulings on pollution, they sold it and now beling to Dignity Funerals.

You will find that most of the hospitals have a 'normal' address, Selly Oak is 1a Raddlebarn Road, Dudley Road was 77 Dudley Road - why it was like that I don't know, but it may have been to save embarrassment in the case of poverty perhaps and mental illness.

Seeing as BIR is taken, and BMG also, I would suggest B for Bir, H for ham and X - well, that's anyone's guess. Perhaps because it needs three letters, X is probably the only one that does not have a 'natural' home, so might just be a stand-in when there is a problem. Just my thoughts .......

Hi Jane I am about to re-subscribe to Ancestry Worldwide, so I shall hopefully be able to find out when my William Fulford came to England. Sometimes the Irish took on an Anglicised name, as they were often treated badly (racism is nothing new), so he might have just adopted the Fulford name...

Hi Jane The man I am looking for is one step back than I initially stated - he was William John Fulford who died around 1913. He married Mary Ann O'Hara (formerly Flanagan) in 1899. I have him on the 1901 census aged 38 saying he was born in Athlone. (I had considered that he was the son of a...

I am very interested in this thread - my daughter married a Fulford, whose father came from Birmingham, however the grandfather Fulford was born in Ireland - did any of the Fulford family emigrate to Ireland do you know? It does not seem to be an Irish name, there are a huge number of...

Here you are Cath. A little bit small, but if you save it to your computer you might be able to see the numbers when you pan into the picture. 105 acres is a bit large to get comfortably on an A4 sheet! Shortie

You are welcome Ann. I also have Witton, Lodge Hill, Brandwood, Yardley, KH and Warstone, (plus Cheltenham) so if anyone wants any more, just give me the nod and I will do the necessary.