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Re: Bordesley green Dr Don Ellis was never a member of the practice mentioned in Post #10. In Post #10, I was referring to the practice at the lower end of Blake Lane; there was a second partnership in Blake Lane, but it was between the Custard House (on the same side) and Yardley Green Road. I...

Please note that the above "quotations" are only alleged exchanges between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill; they are not well documented and may be misattributed. Another two examples of things Churchill is supposed to have said to Lady Astor are a) that having a woman in Parliament was like...

Talking of tee-shirts (which I'll come back to in a mo'), do you remember when, if we had to do a cross-country run, play tennis, do PT, go climbing, play basketball, run 100 yards, fence, play cricket, etc., etc., we used to ask our Mum for our "pumps"? The ubiquitous plimsoll was the only form...

Good evening All, Excuse me, dek, but I wrote out this more detailed way of posting a photograph a month or two ago and thought perhaps cazxx1 would find it simpler to go through the procedure step by step. This is how I post photographs : Click on the royal blue, black, grey or green box...

Re: Looking for a photo of 510 Green Lane, Small Heath Good morning, John, It was on the Bordesley Green side (north) of Green Lane approximately halfway between Third and Fourth Avenue. There's a recently-built carpet warehouse there now. David

Please note that there are two threads entitled "Archibald Cooke, Engine Driver, LMSR, George Medal Award, 18th December 1942‏"; one is posted in the section "The Railways" and the other is in "The Blitz & Homefront". David

Good morning Dave Y and welcome to the Forum. Have you seen the thread "Archibald Cooke, Engine Driver, LMSR, George Medal Award, 18th December 1942‏" which was started on your behalf by mikemusson? During the last four days I've also come across four scanned pages of a book with a photograph of...

Jean, I've tried to illustrate what Ann saw in Tom's photograph in Post #21. She has long-since convinced me that she is absolutely right. David

If the wedding took part in Birmingham, I think it would be far more likely that the "shingler" was one who was involved in the transformation of molten iron into wrought iron by removing the carbon and other impurities by oxidisation in a reverberatory furnace. "Trow" is sometimes used as a...

Dr Bowen, Dr Jones, Dr Martin, Dr James and Dr Benbow were all partners in the same practice. They ran three surgeries. Dr Bowen (the senior partner) and Dr Jones worked - as fatfingers so rightly tells us in Post #146 - in a big Victorian house which used to stand set back from the road...

Re: Bordesley Green Dr Bowen, Dr Jones, Dr Martin, Dr James and Dr Benbow were all partners in the same practice. They ran three surgeries. Dr Bowen (the senior partner) and Dr Jones worked - as fatfingers so rightly tells us in Post #8 - in a big Victorian house which used to stand set back...

' evenin', all. I've just shown Ann, my three-year-old, Tom's enhanced photo in Post #21 and she insists it's a smiling Humpty Dumpty sitting on a pile of bricks because for once he didn't fall off the wall but, because of the chain of earthquakes the world's experiencing at present, the wall...

' evening all, Has The Holly Bush, Quinton still got a crown bowling green? My dad travelled right across Brum from Bordesley Green to Quinton twice a week to bowl there for seven or eight years between about 1957 and1965. His big mate was Bill Young. db84124

I believe you're right, Colin. My father, who knew the Bordesley Green, Small Heath, Little Bromwich area exceptionally well - virtually house-to-house (not, he wasn't a burglary!!) - often said what you have just stated. And from my cycling days, I remember the stretch of Yardley Green Road...

Re: The Custard House, Blake Lane Yes, Colin, you're quite right. We established in Post #34 that "the (Martin's Custard ) apple is (was?) much grown in the orchards conterminous with Northamptonshire and Leicestershire". Please see : https://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/martins-custard.html...

The Custard House, Blake Lane Good morning all, As I wrote in Post #53, a few days ago I sent a letter to the hon. secretary of the Small Heath Local History Society who very kindly passed it on to her daughter, Dr Chris Shelley. Yesterday I received a lengthy reply to my enquiry regarding the...

I'll never cease to be amazed at what the members of the Forum are capable of !!! Where on earth did you find these, Colin? If only the word "wood" on the third map (Map 15) were "orchard", we would be a step in the right direction to solving this enigma. Let's all keep up the excellent work! David

Brilliant, Mike, another small piece of the jigsaw falls into place! Best regards, David

The Custard House, Blake Lane Good morning John, Now that is very interesting! If you look down the first, long, 1867 list, there is a house called "The Laurels" which is at least a street/road away from Blake Lane. Yet in 1883/84 there was a house of the same name on the Yardley (Green) Road/...

Re: The Custard House, Blake Lane Colin, having had a half-hour break from my fatherly chores, I've just been re-reading your Post #50. There is an obviously strong association between "Green Lanes" and "Green Lane" and your various excellent maps bearing the name "Custard House" in that very...