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Indeed they could. I hadn't imagined that their work could be so precise and commercial. That is certainly a product of quality.

My grandfather, Frank Howard Gossage, who worked at Chamberlain & Hookham after leaving Central Secondary School, was visited and selected by whoever did these things was enlisted in the Army and sent out to France - he went to Ypres where he was shot in the arm so was unable to hold a shotgun...

That's excellent, thank you Stokkie.

Thank you!

I did wonder if there was a connection to the Chamberlain family. When did the business begin to trade?

Yes, I think it had to be alternating current. He wasn't there for very long because his father and my great grandfather uprooted the family from Albert Road in Kings Heath to take on a farm tenancy in 1915. I know nothing of what they produced but it sounds as though it was a well-established...

Sorry that I haven't been economical with the space but I am new at trying to manipulate and space photos online.

My grandfather was a pupil at the Central Secondary School in Suffolk Street (he was born in 1895). Following his time at the school when he played sports and athletics, he went to work at Chamberlain & Hookhams. I have a few photos of him there and two of them are now here. I hope they are...

Yes, Viv, but I can't unravel the information you have there except to say that my late grandfather (born 1895 died 1982) attended the school in Suffolk Street. I don't know if the CSS and CGS were independent of each other but the School Cup is silver plated (needs cleaning) and weighs a ton...

Thank you, everyone, for the individual snippets of information about the school. My late grandfather was a pupil there (he was born in 1895) and I have his sports cup for winning various sports events in 1911 and 1912. It has been very difficult to find the history of the school so I'm very...

My mother-in-law used to call them "Skinflints".

My daughter and son-in-law have just spent Sunday turning out my garage for me and have come across an old spirit level made by John Rabone & Sons (Warranty corrected) in its old soft metal storage tube (cap missing). It's a lovely piece of work, if old and dirty and much better workmanship...

Steve, I'm sorry that this is 11 years on from your post but I have just read it and wanted to say that John Crathorn b1774 in Handsworth married Elizabeth Parkes and had a daughter, Hannah Crathorn, born in 1813 in Kings Heath. She then married John Gossage in 1833, giving birth to John on 7...

I have struggled to find out much more about William Gossage (licensed victualler at Kings Arms in Moore's Row) and his family. His daughter, Hannah, became pregnant in 1811 (I think as baby born 6th April 1812 (baptised St Martin's) but not married. She was born in March 1794 (also baptised...

Thank you for posting this. My grandfather was a pupil at the Central Secondary School in Suffolk Street and I have the school sports cup he won for running and the long jump in 1911/12. I have tried everywhere to find information about the school but didn't realise it ended up in Gressel...

Thank you for that, mikejee. It's a lovely map which I find fascinating.

Thank you so much for this Phil. If you read my recent post to mikejee you will see what I have been up to for the last 6 years when I placed a post for help about More's Row. I gather from other research I did recently that it couldn't have been a very nice area because Floodgate St was home...

Thank you so much for this mikejee. I am afraid that I didn't get back to the forum for your response and apologise for leaving it so long - 6 years. I have a benign, inoperable brain tumour which was discovered in 2005. From 2012 I was kept busy with my very elderly parents. I kept my...

Thank you, mikejee. I do find the change of names so confusing. I have been trying to compare your 1839 map with A-Z but, of course, that is heavily overlaid with Smallbrook Queensway and others. I will certainly click on your link. Thank you so much for your reply.