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Yes, Alfred was George's brother. I have attached an extract from Philip Gooderson's book that I was able to access by searching in Google books.

Angie, I have done some more digging in the records about the Simpsons and have found it fascinating research. If I am right, your great grandfather George Simpson (born 1867) was one of the Simpson Brothers who were leading members of the notorious gang known as the Aston Sloggers, a group of...

Looks like the attached newspaper cuttings could be of interest Wisey.

I think your best bet would be to contact Tamworth Library (if you haven't already done so). I have a vague recollection of seeing back copies there.

A Rueben James Giles born in Erdington was killed in action in France and Flanders at the age of 23 on 1st September 1918. He was a private in Prince Albert's Regiment (Somerset Light Infantry) 1st Battalion. His regimental number was 37930. He enlisted at Worcester and was formerly in the Army...

Vixen Here are cuttings of a couple of court cases involving Bernard Douglas Anthony. He was on the electoral register with May M at 22 Barton Rd, Tewkesbury in 1949 and in 1959 he was at 41 Oldbury Rd, Tewkesbury with May M and Beryl P. There was also a Bernard Douglas Anthony listed in...

Vixen Here are a couple of newspaper cuttings that give some information about Edna Hadley and William Thomason. It seems that Edna did indeed die in 1949 in mysterious and sad circumstances.

Report in Birmingham Post on Monday 31 May 1965

The ultimate resident of Kingshurst Hall was Walter John Townshend known as Wally. He was born at the hall in 1887, the son of Henry and Phoebe, and lived there as a farmer until August 1960. He never married and died a few months later (April 1961) at the age of 74 years at New Street, Castle...

This news report from the Birmingham Mail on 18 March 1918 gives the additional information that he was working for a firm called Thermalloy Ltd. of Watford.

I believe this photo (that has been passed down in my family) probably shows the evacuation of about half of the boys in the school to Ashby-de-la-Zouch as reported in the press in November 1939. Some of the boys are wearing the school cap and tie.

This looks to be your grandmother , Bob.

Elmdon Boy, the butcher's shop you visited in 1968 could have been that of William Whitehouse who is listed in Kelly's 1965 at 262 Lichfield Road. The shop was immediately next to the opening to Lovers Walk alongside the station. It is shown on the attached image (around 1950) and was still...

Re: Slade Confectionery Looking again at the Electoral Register for 1955, it shows a John and Rose Wetton living two doors away from the Hewitts.

Re: Slade Confectionery. I think it says D & R? Hewitt below the name Slade Confectionery. Could it be located at 124 Lichfield Road? The 1939 Register shows this was the home of a Reginald J Hewitt and Emily D (Doris) Hewitt. He was a retail shopkeeper - bread, cakes and flour. She was a shop...

Good memories Morturn. The bell in our sweet shop was activated by spring loaded floorboards so that the circuit would be completed when a customer stepped inside. Probably before the days of the electronic eye.

The lady called Doris in the sweet shop was my mother and the shop, number 37, was my childhood home. It was the third shop down from the station, the first being a greengrocer (Jim Davis?) and the second a butcher . The name above the shop was C T Rowley, my grandfather, who purchased the...

The procession in post 277 is probably the one from Six Ways to Erdington Abbey reported in the Birmingham Daily Mail on 27 July 1914