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Many thanks for the photos and news clips. As in the second photo, I was in assembly dept. Hopefully this thread will find a few former employees.

My first job when leaving school aged 15 in the summer of 1971. I've long forgotten where the factory was actually situated but would have been a shortish walk after getting the 65 bus into town from Short Heath. It didn't seem much later that the factory moved location even further away down...

I think they will be relying heavily on researchers sending in the corrections.

Looks like a second flush! No frost at your location yet?

My wife reminded me recently that we had acquired our weddings rings via catalogue in 1976. We still have a spider plant on top of the fridge/freezer.

The loo lid would never stay up on it's own. Having to hold it up by one hand when using the toilet. :joy:

I remember my wife amassing a collection of Eternal Bow crockery.

Well what a tangled web! I appreciate you've gone above and beyond here Mark. Doesn't help that these people aren't playing exactly by the rules. :eek: At least I now know why William James Hawkes mother is down as Bartlett. Great sleuthing Mark, many thanks.

I have two Lyn Daniel Hawkes b: 27/10/1799 ( Gloucester) marries: Ann Smith 22/05/1822 ( Gloucester) move to B,ham between 1851-1861 Daniel Hawkes b: 1829 (Gloucester)

Just to save people searching I have done a newspaper search for Hawkes and Hunt Families. (and found a few)

I don't want to take this thread off topic but here's the news item. Bernard Hunt.

Bernard Hunt b:1910

Yes it's a complicated one for sure Mark. Many thanks for yours and Lyn's help in getting through this one! Team BHF does it again!!

Thank you Lyn. no I'm not on Ancestry. I'm doing this as a 'free favour' for my sister in law. With a months FMP sub and a PDF order the 'favour' is already £33 :joy: What I will ask is do they have prison mugshots on Ancestry? her other grandfather got 4 months hard labour (B,ham) in 1936.

Yes I saw the 'Strong' marriage but discounted it at the time. Siblings of William James Hawkes.. Hawkes/ Bartlett James 1856 Samuel 1859 Strange no marriage record.

So these could be Daniels parents?

Many thanks Mark & Lyn What's infuriating is I'm searching the census records for Daniel Hawkes in Birmingham which comes up with nothing. Then prompted by Marks 'address' census search for 1861/1871 there he is.

A brickwaller for the experts. I'm following back the Hawkes male line using FMP. I was hoping with the purchase of William James Hawkes birth cert PDF that I could get back another generation. Not only can I not find a Hawkes/Bartlett marriage record but also no census records for his father...

Maybe also the driving test introduced in 1935.

I managed to get in via a google search, it's very slow to load mind. As you say Mark, a little goldmine! mainly transport but a lot of pubs businesses, buildings, places etc in the background of the images to identify.