Search results

Welcome to the Forum, Leshere. And thanks for your interesting contribution. (Possibly a typo with the family name? Ehrhardt?). Chris

Worth remembering that today marks the 83rd anniversary of the First Evacuation of children from Birmingham and other industrialised areas - 1st September 1939. Also a moment to remember Beryl M who started this wonderful thread a long time ago....and it's still worth re-reading through! Chris

Adrian, If you still visit the Forum...... Your reference to your grandfather having been given the opportunity of opening a new factory in Kirkby is interesting. Do you know for whom he was working when in Birmingham? ICI, as it was then? Anything further known? (Work began on the Kirkby...

Does any current member of the Forum live in this road? A number of images of one of the houses - no. 97 - have been posted here in the past. A few more, from the early 1920s to 1931, have resurfaced, showing the front of the house and the (large) rear garden of it and neighbouring houses and...

Forward two years, to 1938. Same beach. (Sister, brother, Mum, me and our beloved dog). "What a wonderful world it is...." "So full of interest...." "Oh, blimey, not ANOTHER snap, Dad!" Sunny days for me. But darkening clouds for the grown-ups. Chris

Images from my first holiday, in August 1936: Outside the farmhouse where we had digs, in the South Hams area of Devon. Held proudly by my big sister. And during the same holiday. My first toe in the sea (or, more likely, estuary - probably East Portlemouth, opposite Salcombe). Chris

Interesting conundrum! What is its size, roughly? Any external connections of any sort? Brackets? I was wondering if it is some sort of pressure vessel, for an unknown purpose. Or an expansion chamber in conjunction with some sort of pressurised system. As it turned up on a farm, some sort of...

Here's a CWS bike, not that you can see a lot of it. Either 22" or 24" wheels, not new, almost certainly pre-war, with its original black paint heavily repainted and the chrome as polished up as far as its condition allowed. And that's me on it. The very first go, on our back lawn in...

Welcome to the Forum, bravo121. It's perfectly OK! A horse I'm certain that the family were very much involved with horses (in the plural) in the immediate post-war years. (I'm not sure about the earlier period). There may well be photographs which survive from those days. I think the best...

I think textspeak is even worse. A barrier to comprehension, an unwanted diversion of one's attention from the subject and, to me at least, yet another reminder of how the world has left me far behind! We mainly keep it out of the Forum (strictly speaking, it's against the rules) but u c it...

All the best, Jim, and many happy returns. Chris

Be careful with it, though. Mine threw out its spike a few weeks ago - the first time I can remember, in about eight years - got up to around seven feet and was just starting to open, and then, overnight, snapped off, for no apparent reason. Remarkably brittle stem - woody in texture. The head...

I omitted to mention earlier, when talking about a family tradition for sons to go out to the USA "to make men out of 'em", was that my great-grandfather Henry similarly encouraged?permitted? not only his elder son, Charles (who later became my grandfather) but also (by Rose) his younger one...

Thank you for that, mv52. Quite a coincidence, living so close. It sounds as though the verb "thrive" is overstating the case a bit, although I suppose it is a relative term in any case! I did quite a lot of work in the late 1990s trying to pin down my great-grandfather's years in Oroville...

Stokkie, I think there were two other options: all the way down around Cape Horn and then up the coast to San Francisco; or down from New York to Panama, a trek over the isthmus and rhen another boat up to S.F. I have always felt that the latter was the more likely. Chris

My great-grandfather, b.1832 in Brum, took it into his head at the age of 19 or so, to travel to the other side of the moon (or, rather, its equivalent in around 1851, which was Gold Rush California). Much about his time there is unknown but he had more sense than to dig and, we believe, had a...

Hope you have had a great day, Eric. All the very best. Chris

Hear what you say in your first few words, Ray. But I have to feel that much the same would have been said about the young in 1938 by veterans of 1914-18 and we know now that that worked out wonderfully with all the younger generation stepping up to the mark. I agree that younger generations...

That's definitely the one from the 1950s, Lyn. The original one was much the same height, but narrower. A not dissimilar style. It must've been quite a landmark at the time and I assume that there must be newspaper photographs of its opening. I only remember it in a very sorry state with little...

I'm surprised if no photograph seems to survive of the building in its earliest guise, from the mid/late thirties when it was built before being gutted by enemy action in 1941. There must be some, somewhere, but I don't think I have ever seen one. This is my view of it, a memory from around...