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Like me, Janice, you probably owe your existence to a wound which got your Grandad out of the trenches and out of the dangers he might not otherwise have survived. My own sons could say the same thing about both of their grandfathers. Injuries which were serious enough at the time but which...

Here's one of mine, for starters. A little oval, black-painted tin with a bit of gold decoration. And inside it, a crumbling flower slowly turning to dust. And also inside, a slip of paper, in my mother's handwriting from a century ago. My parents were married in the Parish Church...

The periodic rummage through a box of junk out of the loft sometimes reveals something which one hadn't forgotten about but hadn't looked at in years. A family memento, old but possibly with a clear connection to the present - and definitely with a Birmingham connection. Has anyone got...

Very much ditto, ditto, ditto.......... All the best. Chris

Hap-Hap-Happy Birthday, Lyn! Chris

The GPO Home Guard unit in Birmingham, formed in May/early June 1940 and consisting entirely of GPO employees, evolved during the second half of 1940 into the 47th Warwickshire (Post Office) Battalion, Home Guard). It lost 4 of its members to enemy action in three separate incidents before the...

Not so much in the garden but more in the loft (but they are connected!) The junk expands and another storage area needs to be opened up. This is what I find this morning. How do such tiny creatures create something so huge? And why should they need to? Should appreciate any advice for...

Another phase of life, Bob, not welcomed but possibly not without one or two compensations. All the very best to you as you adjust to new circumstances. Chris

Welcome to the Forum, Val57. (You probably now hold the record for responding to one of the longest outstanding questions!) Unfortunately genie seems to be no longer a member here and so in all probabliity won't see your response. However, other Forum members might well be interested to hear...

Welcome to the Forum, also! I can't comment on Showells but I know a bit about Kynoch. I have to say that unfortunately the prospect of finding a photograph of an individual employee from the period of the Great War is tiny or even nil. The size of the workforce at that time was huge, up to...

Where does that one come from, oldMohawk? It's obviously not from the newspaper image. Chris

Another wonderful image dug out for us by Pedrocut, for which thanks. It prompts me to raise a question which has undoubtedly been posed before - and to which I suspect the answer isn't a good one. Do any of these Post and Mail photographs still exist anywhere in their original form, by some...

Also, an array of headlamps, fog lamps - and even the little illuminated Wolseley badge on the radiator - none of them with any sort of blackout masking. November 1939? Presumably all still to have some post-delivery work carried out on them. And a Wolverhampton registration - perhaps the...

The following seems another way of disguising Edgbaston Reservoir. A gentleman named Donald Bonehill recorded this memory in 2005 for the BBC People's War Archive: I was eight years old when WW2 broke out. A year before the war started we moved for family reasons from Northfield (in the leafy...

Thank you for the images, Viv. It reminds me that my late sister-in-law once told me that she was a member of the ICI Kynoch Works first-aid team at Witton throughout the war which involved frequent overnight stays on-site. I assume that most big factories had their own similar units...

Looks like Machine Tools....Jones and Shipman to me. Perhaps even F.A./H.A./M.A. Jones.... Chris

Thanks, oldMohawk, that's a wonderful image. London to Llandudno in the early thirties - what a trek. I'll repeat it here. Everyone well dressed, men in suits, ladies in summer dresses and hats, stretching legs and no doubt enjoying the fresh air and the quiet, now that everything has been...

Wonderful that pictures such as the one which Pete has just shared with us have survived and are now available to all of us. But such a shame that at the same time the who, where, when and why have been lost over time. I suppose I would guess at around 1920. That would make the birth date some...

We all knew it was going to happen, sooner or later. But what a dreadful blow it is, nevertheless. Not too many of us around from when she first ascended to the throne, but, like Alberta, I do remember and the loss of the King then seemed to me to be something it was very difficult to take in...

Have a look at post #13 in the thread, Burnt_peanuts, where a photograph of him appears. Could we see your image please? Tom Fillery was a leading light in the Home Guard during the war years. He may well appear in contemporary Home Guard group images which in his case might include the 12th...