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BBC Radio 4 currently broadcasts on Longwave 198 kHz (just over 1500 metres in old money). But live cricket (Test Match Special) and the Shipping Forecast are now available elsewhere. The Droitwich transmission masts at Wychbold will probably be dismantled as analogue broadcasting ceases this...

And Eric Coates' Knightsbridge March signature tune of 'In Town Tonight'

A 'Tommy Knocker' is a hob or goblin, often thought to haunt mines. As a child, I knew the woods [like Leasowes Park- Blue Bell Dell] well in the 1960s -1970s, but I think this wood was long gone by then. Looking at the newspaper photo, I doubt this was done by children. More like housing...

An 11 cm Ogham inscribed stone found in a garden and now exhibited at the Herbert Art Gallery. Ogham was an early alphabet mainly used to inscribe names on stones, before early Irish adopted Latin...

A wapiti is apparently another name for an elk.

Happy Birthday Judy! Derek

Happy Birthday Mike! Derek

BBC iPlayer has Britain's Lost Masterpieces which has an episode devoted to Birmingham. It must have been in the can before BMAG was closed as we see the Round Room and the picture store. A thoughtful and interesting programme.

Same for me. No content or messages.

MWS Emigration a possibility. Try to look at shipping registers? As you say frustrating. The 1939 Register was apparently used for a long time to establish NHS eligibility. Derek

MWS Would she have been known by another name? People with 'foreign' names often changed them with the impending war. Another possibility is a woman who took the name of the man she was living with but was not married to. Perhaps because they were already married to other people? My paternal...

Happy Birthday, Frothblower! Derek

Theoretical cost of a spitfire in 1940 was said to be £5000, but the true cost must have been higher. KeyAero suggest £10,000 in 1940 prices.

That's good. Good luck - if there was an inquest then Birmingham Archives should have the papers. Death Cert would be signed by coroner. Stokkie.

If you would like to share his full name and date of death then we could look on Ancestry or Find my Past? Or you could have the free trial and look for yourself. You will probably need to order his death certificate from the General Register Office.https://www.gov.uk/general-register-office

Do you have a death certificate, Clivesky? There are some records from the 1890s in the Birmingham Archives, but they probably won't contain records of individual patients.

I've visited All Saints' Hospital in the 1970s singing carols on the wards. More personally Mother was treated as an outpatient as an overdose of L-Dopa for Parkinsons' Disease resulted in mania, paranoia and hallucinations. I'd like to acknowledge the care she received from her psychiatrist who...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Hospital,_Winson_Green https://www.countyasylums.co.uk/all-saints-winson-green-birmingham/ Winson Green Asylum, Birmingham City Asylum, Birmingham City Mental Hospital, Birmingham Mental Hospital the main block is in Lodge Road and not open to the...

Yes, Clivesky. Winson Green Asylum later became known as All Saints Hospital, but the building was the same. Derek