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Re: The Custard House, Blake Lane Another very useful map, Colin, but it doesn't show the detail of the one you sent in in Post #51. Interesting to note that this map - dated 1885 - quite definitely shows a building named "Custard House" right on the corner ; but we know from mikejee (Post...

I told 'em, Oldham !!! No. I didn't ...... I said Liverpool! David

Good morning, John and Mike, There's a Hardman's Estate Agents in Liverpool. Their address is : 96 County Road Liverpool L4 3QN Could this possibly be the same firm? David

Good morning, Len. I think you'll find that the form "By golly" or more commonly "Oh, golly" are only softened forms of "By God" and "Oh, God", so you could in fact upset a devout follower of Christianity, Judaism or Islam - or any other staunch godly person - because you may be accused of...

Jean, I've absolutely no idea !!! Please see "Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories", Posts #33 and #58. David

When still at school, I imagine I had one of the worst Saturday/Sunday jobs in the whole of Birmingham. I worked for Sheldon Window Cleaners on High Street, Bordesley (yes, that's right, Postie, next to the Dolls' Club!). They had the cleaning contract for keeping the assembly lines going at...

Thanks for the photo, Phil. It brought flooding back some marvellous memories ........ Like Ann B in Post #2, I used to use the Wandering Minstrel as a meeting point. I and my fellow articled clerks in a Smallbrook Ringway accountancy firm would meet up every Thursday evening upstairs in the...

Colin, That's absolutely perfect. Thank you very much. I'm extremely grateful for the plan, and also for the link, which I can assure you will be of tremendous use. Thank you. I have written to the hon. secretary of the Small Heath Local History Society asking whether she - or one of their...

Re: The Custard House, Blake Lane Colin, your map in Post #42 is excellent. Could you possibly produce a second, equally clear rectangle which extends to the east beyond the end of Blakeland Street and corresponds with the map I posted in Post #40, i.e. which includes the whole of the "garden"...

Re: The Custard House, Blake Lane The following is an enlargement of the 1890 map showing the junction of Green Lane, Blake Lane, Yardley Green Road and Hobmoor Road. The old Custard House appears to be on the corner between the last two mentioned roads thanks to the label “Custard House”. But...

Re: The Custard House, Blake Lane Colin and col h, and all the members who have contributed to this enthralling thread, We seem to be making far more progress than previous threads about the Custard House pub have ever made. This is thanks to the extraordinary participation of all. Can we break...

Good evening, Lyn and Phil, The site of the missing corner shop and its adjoining shops and houses seems to be too clean to be an operative demolition site. Could this be bomb damage from six or seven years before 1950? If so, there should be records from which the junction could be identified...

Re: The Custard House Blake Lane Hello fatfingers, Apparently "the (Martin's Custard ) apple is (was?) much grown in the orchards conterminous with Northamptonshire and Leicestershire". https://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/martins-custard.html Thanks for stimulating this amazingly...