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Good morning, Elizabeth, I imagine that the well-defined word peck was used in the expression a peck of land ... from here is could have been used for a stretch of land of an unspecified area (tons of potatoes could mean a large but not-well-defined quantity of spuds, for example). Only...

Hello again, Dek, Having tried to comment on the word "bompeck" in the Group section of the Forum without success, and having typed bompeck into the search engine at the top of the page, I've only just seen your recent posting. I far prefer the letter "b" being inserted into the word. Whether or...

Re: bompeck Being fascinated by words - and never having hear the word "bompeck" - I conferred with my faithful friend "The New (1993) Shorter Oxford English Dictionary" and found the word "peck" can be used to mean "a measurement of land equal to three acres (approx. 1.214 hectares)", which...

Well I wouldn't go to Frothy; he only pulls halves - and he only half fills the glass too !!!!David;)

Phil, without your input - together with the help of Max, mikejee and Dek - we would never have been able to get this far. Oh, by the way, I am now completely satisfied that at that time it was possible to get from the Coventry Road to Saltley Road without going along a "street". I offer my...

Lads, I've just this minute spotted that it wasn't Park Road that is today known as St Saviour's Road, but the parallel road to it: Ash Road, i.e., Bordesley Green Road runs into Ash Road and not St Saviour's Road. So our John would have had to do a very short stretch of Adderley Road before...

Thanks for the link, Phil, I can't wait to look at that later this evening. Max, it certainly does help! As Phil has pointed out, what is today St Saviour's Road, was then called Park Road (it runs along the north-eastern edge of Adderley Park). But on your map there is still no Mill Lane...

That's fascinating information, Phil, and, in that way, High Street was in fact avoided. Could you possibly post a map? David I've had lunch and completed a contribution which I was working on before being called to the table. I'll post it in anyway, although Phil's information throws a...

Dek, if John went along Duddeston Mill Road, passing the gasworks on his right, there must have been a road or track running approximately along the lines of Melvina Road, Devon Street or Cato Street before they were built. If not, as you so rightly say, he must have used the High STREET. D.

Maxwell, Your map illustrates perfectly that there is no point of contact between the Coventry Road and Bordesley Green, but we really need a map of the area north or north-west of the one you have just posted. Could I say that the beauty of your poem is not influenced in any way by my...

Agreed, Dek. Hhum, not trying to get my own back, but shouldn't Adderley Park Road be Adderley Road? But you would then have to turn left into High STREET, before going over Saltley Viaduct and into Saltley Road. Beep-beep-beep-beep!!! No Streets allowed!! D.

Good morning, Dek, Thanks for having pointed out my non-deliberate mistake! I'll leave it as I originally typed it; your post will bring members' attention to my blunder. Have you any knowledge of a Park Road or a Mill Lane in that part of Birmingham? David

To get from the Coventry Road onto Bordesley Green, John the Coachman presumably went along Cattell Road. OK, so we’ve jumped a road. Then the obvious way to get to Saltley Road without going along a “Street” would be to turn left down Bordesley Green Road, continue into Ash Road, straight over...

I can but send you my compliments again, Terry, for this highly detailed and hence interesting photograph. I bet the chicks are far plumper than poor overworked Dad! David

Situations : Wanted Bakers wanted to fill a situation (job; post; position), please apply to J Jennings, Burbury Street ...... another rendering. I'm off to bed now; we're an hour ahead of you. Best wishes, David

"Are situations wanted by out-of-work bakers? If so, please apply to J Jennings, Burbury Street" .... is all that comes to mind. David

Thanks Aidan and Amanda. Indeed a handsome fellow !!! ..... now I can't get them to enlarge ..... oh,well ..... at least I can see the uniform! Thank you both, David;)

I can't either. Den, could you possibly convert your psd. file to jpg. or some other more common type of file. I haven't got a professional photograph processing program installed. Thanks, David

Hello, Adele, Please, please excuse me for stepping into your thread with no hope of helping you out in tracing Herr Preucil, but I would like to draw our members' attention to an excellent book about the behind-the-scenes account of the charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith. It's...

I was tricked into coming to Birmingham from the tiny mid-Wales village in which I was born and lived until 9 years of age on the pretext of being taken to the Scout Jamboree in Sutton Park in August 1957. I started at Bordesley Green Junior School three weeks later. Unlike Dek, I was never...