Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Welcome to this forum . We are a worldwide group with a common interest in Birmingham and its history.
While here, please follow a few simple rules. We ask that you respect other members, thank those who have helped you and please keep your contributions on-topic with the thread.
We do hope you enjoy your visit.
BHF Admin Team
Ancestry announced that they now have records of when WW2 soldiers medals were awarded
My first husbands father was killed in 1945 and buried in Celle.
I looked at the new records and wasn't very impressed, they were awarded to my husbands mother his widow in 1950.
Details given,
3 Woodbrine...
Not quite as bad as some, but really annoying
My husband answered the phone they knew his name and said that as his ********* energy tariff was due for renewal they were ready to offer new one.
Our tariff doesn't end until July 2025 so he let them carry on offering a price £30 a month less...
William frederick Lloyd born 1876 Gresford Wrexham Wales.
Joined Walsall police in 1898 , he was a bricklayer. He married in Walsall 1900
He retired in 1931.
1939 census entry
41, Broadway west, Walsall
William F Lloyd , b 30 th september 1876. widower, Police pensioner.
William died on 12th...
Edwin Guest married Julia Wayne 1869
1871 census Handsworth Staffs (looks like Finch road)
Edwin Guest age 25 bookkeeper born Birmingham
Julia Guest age 22 born Nottingham
Harold E age 4
1881 Beacon Terrace Handsworth
Edwin Guest age 36 Silversmiths Clerk
Julia age 32
Harold Edgar age 14...
1939 ,278 Great lister Street
William Davis b 1887 Lorry driver
Maud Davis b 1885 Domestic duties
William Davies b 1924 the son of William and Maud, Proof reader
and
Ethel Clews b 1909, the daughter of Williams Clews and his wife Maud nee Brabson Dress maker
Hilda Clews b 1915 "...
The marriage of Mary Corbett to William Copper was in birmingham in February 1847 and their first son registered William Corbett Copper was born in june quarter 1847
1861 census has William Copper age 34, married, lodger in Villiers Street with him is son William.
Viv, on the photo of today you can just see my landing window 1961-1967, house next to the railway track , St Marks the other side. of the railway bridge.
My maternal grandfather took his own life in 1942 because the war was bringing back memories of his time in WW1.
As Lyn says very sad what soldiers went through in WW1.
Johns children,
Frank Norman married Rose Rea in 1923 gave father As john Francis Electro plate worker.
Gordon married Margaret Wooton in 1937
Stanley married Florence Rose Coorall in 1934, address 118 Poplar road father John Francis, Silversmith.