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Violet Pretty was born in Handsworth, December 1931 1930 Electoral roll has her parents Harold and Edna at 242 Aston Lane , Handsworth.

I remember her fathers death and the next day in school assembly singing God save our gracious QUEEN. Also remember standing very close to her when she opened Chelmsley Wood shoppng centre in the 1970s. My husband worked on the build of a shopping mall in Leamington which she opened , he took...

Just looking through this old thread and recalled that sometime between Sept 1961 and 1963 my exhusband was working as a bus conductor on the 51 and 52 buses to Perry Barr/Great Barr, A man walked out of the isolation hospital in Witton and was last seen boarding one of these buses, anyone...

The birth is incorrect she would have been 12 in 1981, sister Sandra born 1963 both with birth mother Warren. Susan E E Chapman born 1959 married Michael Dudley 1981

As you know Eric I live across the road from you at Bacons End, we have lots of Seagulls squealing away as soon as it gets light.

I appear to be a bit luckier, we have sparrows, black birds, great tits, blue tits, our regular cheeky robin but also too many magpies and pigeons coming to our garden pond to have a drink or a bath. We have a large conifer in the back garden , I call it their multistorey flats because all you...

your grandmother was Helen May Allday b 1898 1901 living Putney road Handsworth name Helen M with father Ernest mother ellen 1911 96 Wellington road handsworth Ernest alfred Allday age 40 Gem setter Jeweller Ellen age 38 Lilian 16 Ellen 11 Helen May Allday married William Hardwick 1935, 1939...

Emma Louisa griffin baptised Stowe Gloucester in 1858 mother Jane, no father. In 1871 working as a servant in stratford upon avon age 14 1861 in Donnington gloucester. John Griffin age 51 Sarah age 50 Jane age 29 daughter Emma age 3 daughter Sarah age 3 months daughter. my guess is that the...

William didn't start off very well he was an inmate at the Shawbury Industrial (reform) school age 13 in 1911. Is this the same William whose record of his prison term for burglary reads Sentenced on 25th Nov 1930 released 27.July 1932 on his right arm tattoos of Dagger, MAY, and a serpent...

Sorry , the hot weather is getting to me.

Emmas probate was around £50, which in those days might have bought you a small terrraced house. On 31st, August 1864 Yardley Marriage Robert George Scholefield , bachelor occupation Gentleman ,father Samuel looks like Boot maker. Emma Sheldon, widow, father samuel cook Nail manufacturer...

Thanks mike, what a sad and awful story.

I have added to my post as I found the divorce petition papers . My thoughts were that as JANPH says Emma met a grizzly end that he may have killed her and hanged but his death is entered before hers and he is not on the list of people hanged. Emma died on 9th August 1873 and probate was...

Robert George Scholefield petitioned his wife Emma for Divorce on 16th december 1872, she did not appear in court on 6th Jan 1873 and was given 14 days to do so. On 15th Jan her solicitor appeared for her. Roberts petition to the judge in March 1873 states that they had one child Amelia...

My son lives around the corner from the former Poor Clares convent which has now been developed into apartments.

Ozzie was the highlight for me, I saw Tony Iomi first and thought if only Ozzie was well enough and there he was., as Viv says voice as strong as ever. Loved the colour of the punjabi dancing, and the little boy who started off dancing with musical youth and was then joined by other youngsters...

Many interesting ,enjoyable posts but after 375 of them time to close the thread, Thank you.

Talking of words in the English language, in schools now they use the words Sulfur, sulfuric acid, in my day it was Sulphur but it was changed in 1971 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry,although in USA it had always been spelt as Sulfur

I know that Birmingham cannot host all the sports so perhaps should acknowledge that is technically West Midlands games. Rugby at Coventry and Bowls at Leamington, I was disappointed that the Velodrome used is in London when Derby has a Velodrome opened in 2015, perhaps it was the seating capacity.

The commentary last night said the same, that it represented oppression and when the 2 girls took the 'pieces of metal' (Sorry can't remember how they described them) from his face it was releasing him from oppression. He was breathing fire until that happened and then he became peaceful. I...