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I have just looked at the history of Mothers and it states opened 1969 , it also states in the same venue as the Carlton which opened in 1963. i find this very puzzling as I married,( had my reception at the Acorn) in 1961 and I used to go to the club before this possibly 1959/1960.

My husband uses a wallpaper scraper that belonged to his Dad in the 1930s. I have 2 knives and one tablespoon part of a wonderful set of silver plate given to me by my employers 61 years ago for my wedding.

I remember him Pete, many people were fond of him and they had a hut placed behind the hedge on the main road before your get to Balsall common,to keep him warm at night. people would take him dinners and pass the time of day with him.Sadly one. day one of the visitors found that he had passed...

I saw an interview with Tony Marchant and he wrote the screenplay and colaborated with the makers all through the production, including the Executive Producer Martin Freeman, he explained in the interview that although the setting was Liverpool it didn't mean that Freemans character would have...

Pete ,my late father was a police officer in Birmingham for 30 years and he didn't have to sign a secrets act.

That's him Pete, thanks.Alberta

Thought the Responder with Martin Freeman a great watch but trying to solve the mystery of the actor who played Caseys grandad, I know I have seen him before a few years ago but for the life of me do not know who he is. I have looked at a list of the cast but still couldn't find him. are there...

Information can be found at Father Hudsons Care, online. There is still a care home in Coleshill but for the elderly but on their site is Origins and you can order information about your relative,in the childrens home the fees are a bit steep , I think about £ 30 for some info. but an extra £45...

Lovely news Viv, lots of pink around.

Whether he was born to a single mother and adopted within days he would have to have been registered as the mothers child. The only Michael J Jackson mother Jackson in 1934 was in Winchester he was registered in Apr/May /June qtr. There is an entry in 1939 in Meriden RD, but looking at the...

Janice, sorry very senior moment but I have adjusted it.

Her birthdate as 4th feb 1887 is used twice in her life so I would imagine it to be true., however no Nellie Southall registered in any qtr 1887, One Ellen in Dudley in march 1887. Just a thought to make life more difficult, could she have been born to a single mother who married a John...

The Stourbridge one was Ellen May known as Nellie and she went to Canada and married there in 1911.

Plans now in place to extend the metro from City to Heartlands hospital, Lea Village , Chelmsley wood, Birmingham Business park and NEC.

If BCC hope to showcase the city perhaps the powers that be will drive along the routes that visitors will use to access the Games and take a look at the vast litter problem in Birmingham., not forgetting the potholes.

Nellie is on the 1901 census at 104 oakwood road Yardley with her father George Southall and mother Ellen nee Tomlinson also Ellen Tomlinson nee Cooke sister of Henry Cooke whose house the family live with in 1891. This Nellie was born in June 1890. I presume that Mary J Southall was related to...

Who would have thought it 26th Jan and 2 large lawns beautifully mown in the sun.

Spent many years in Birmingham, he was born in Grantham , his wife in Bristol. 1871 in Hicks st, Aston, a police officer 1881 Ladywood police officer 1891 Heath st,Kings norton Police sergeant 1901 Blackford Rd, Yardley, retired police officer 1911 32 Pargeter road, Bearwood the home of his Son...

Mortar boards, now only worn by Masters and graduates at their ceremony were once a part of many school uniforms from Victorian times, apparently died out by 1940s.

Couldn't some of the name mystery be due to the fact that 'Show' couldn't read or write. His witness Thomas Decalmer was living in Duke Street 1891., the address that 'Show' gave. A possible reason for an annulment of the first marriage may have been that 'Shows' Russian jewish community...