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No, Richard. They were very much a 70s trend. But ryebread, prawns, rollmops, herring etc are available in supermarkets these days. Mother's friend Hilda introduced us to the Danish Food Centre and open sandwiches. These days we eat Swedish food in IKEA. There are also home delivery services...

Thank you for sharing your photos and family story. It is good that you were able to visit Canada and find that you have family there. There is a lot of research going on in Canada into the contribution British Home Children have made to the growth of the Canadian state in the early 20C. I hope...

Thanks Pedrocut, an interesting recent paper that can be downloaded and read free of charge. Which is a change for academic publications. Derek

We alway had a box in the kitchen cupboard, but I only remember it being used to clean the tannin out of aluminium teapots and sometimes put down the sink.

Absolutely right, Mike. I can only hope that some of the local jewellery companies will want to preserve their history. Derek

I am sorry to say that this museum is closed except for special events. Sadly it is part of the BMAG group. https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/museum-of-the-jewellery-quarter/visit :(

I think that slope has had different names over the years Becky in the oral stories of local children. But it is the same slope and astonishing that the grounds were laid out by Humphry Repton from 1794. I have fond memories of the woods. I bet you heard stories of the Grey Lady too? It is...

Thanks Deb, That's actually the 1939 National Register. The government knew there would be no census in 1941. Does it say where she was living? Eg Walsall might indicate she worked at Walsall ROF - but North Birmingham could be any number of factories. Derek

The Plastics Historical Society can be contacted here https://plastiquarian.com/?page_id=86 For Birmingham Archives email [email protected] I hope they can be found a home.

https://www.northants-fhs.org/sendthemtocanada/ For interest here's the Northants local research (not your ancestor)

In the 1840s only 10% of passengers had an assisted passage from the Poor Law Guardians and had to be of good character. The family jumped ship story might be true? I'm afraid that with a name like John James Smith he's going to be very very hard to trace. The Canadian online records are...

"Although [James] Neild (and even some historians) labelled this prison as Birmingham Town Gaol, from their first report the Prison Inspectors claimed it was a lock up - Birmingham Borough Lock Up. In their inspections of it between 1835 and 1840, the Inspectors agreed that due to its size, the...

Welcome to the Forum! To Canada? My tentative answer would be probably yes, so I'm interested in what people say. Could you give us the full name of the person, date and the name of the ship they travelled on? This would be 'voluntary' migration and an assisted passage. If they originated...

Murder ball and British Bulldog played in Smethwick in the scouts and at school. We played Pack Horses which seems identical to Polly on a Mopstick, except that one boy has his back to the wall and supports the boy's head who makes a back in front of him. You can make a back of three lads then...

BBC has a more realistic view of work that could be dirty, unpleasant and dangerous. There don't seem to be many photos of munitions workers on the shop floor in WW2, I guess only official photographs were allowed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39434504

Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring, 1943, by Laura Knight. Loftus is at her lathe in the Royal Ordnance Factory in Newport, South Wales. IWM explains about conscription for women.https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-workers-that-kept-britain-going-during-the-second-world-war

Great to see Carl in action last night! Full of enthusiasm and local history. A sprinkling of younger folk in the audience too.

There is a lot of information about Kynoch, but I don't think there are workers records. http://www.staffshomeguard.co.uk/KOtherInformationKynochV2A.htm Kynoch has its own set of threads on BHF. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/kynoch-imi-ici-searches.48350/

A graphic account of a bombing raid on BSA Small Heath.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/32/a2116432.shtml

https://www.munitionsworkersassociation.com Samantha Webb is their historian There's also a Facebook group. With pictures of the recent installation of the Rotherwas Angel in Herefordshire. https://www.rotherwas.com/news/2024/3/9/the-rotherwas-angel-has-landed As opposed to Rotherwas which was...