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As kids you could use John Bull sets and play at printing..... Linotype was Hot Metal setting but when I was apprentice from 1968 the Letterpress Compositors set the copy in cold type.Around this time Lithographic printing was being used in Birmingham.The Newspapers and Magazines went onto...

We also had a POW camp just up the road on Groveley Lane Longbridge just before The Austins........its said they built Lowhill Lane that runs alongside Cofton Park and the Airfield area at Austins.......its all concrete sections and is still a functioning surface ( albeit a bit noisy/bumpy now)...

My Wifes tree has an Italian link from Newcastle Under Lyme. I think they were coal miners there but the one man who married wifes Mothers half sister left there with all his large family in 60's and set up as an Ice Cream maker in Dudley. The family name is Calleia and were / are famous in...

I think they need to redo the map(s)...

Am I correct that you can't drive down here nowadays.

The Union used to " Keep the jobs for the boys" under the counter for their mates....

theres another 4 Hoban's in Yardley all buried within a few years so maybe a family plot......( might have died in the War).

Had relatives in Shirley Place back to backs on Longmore....the part that backed onto the Rea.They were Butcher and Harris and were there right up to it was all knocked down....late 60's I think.

Thanks.......I put the pin on my area and the choice of maps came up....brill.

Filters etc etc ....layers...side by side......backgrounds ...all mean nothing...i have been looking at the map linked on here ...#11...and its facinating looking all around my area but no idea of the date or how to try other dates of samemap.

THis site plays with my mind............just cant get on with it........as you say its click click click and hope..........bit silly really. Someone needs to organise it better.

Screw...Driver.... Foka.....Wolfe..... No idea of any jokes here.....lol

WOW these images are awesome....thanks.

Thanks....I missed that link and clicked on the later one which showed a random page. Was looking for Mom....Emily Price born 1922. Family rumour she went into a place like this for a short time.

Is there a section on Ancestry or just a normal search and hope something turns up ?

Yes but when at the clutching at straws stage I am looking everywhere..........having read the Kathleen Dayus books about the unofficial midwifes I get your point of view.

Looked through over 800 names on Findmypast on 1901 census and no names ring any bells....never knew you could do this.Loads more roads etc I can try now if it works on voting as well. Was hoping for any names Gertrude was going by as its the road in 1900 she puts on sons birth cert.

Yes I have a world one on Ancestry and its not bringing up anything for 1901 in the road I want........ I know some Kelly's results come up on name searches but I have only seen businesses. Just tried the road...Willes Road in the keywords etc and it brings up Kelly's results but just a mish...

After many attempts with keywords it did give results in alphabetic order - no names I wanted to see but you cant view any of them without a sub. We had a sub in wifes name (trial) and could see certian results years after but now we cant and it wont even let up see ones we have viewed before or...

OK thanks but....haven't got Findmypast sub at the moment......put Kelly's in Google and no idea what to do and didn't get as far as walk the street....lol