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Warley Woods Community Trust posted this on Twitter (now X). Said it was taken when the park was opened to the public. 1906

Viv Cole has a splendid 'Walk round the Abbey' with excellent photos, floor plans and some interior views too. Warley Woods Community Trust shows that excellent work is being done in this public park. https://www.warleywoods.org.uk/blog/a-walk-around-the-abbey

That's sad. The Gaumont at 118 Windmill Lane, I think? https://www.cinematreasures.org/theaters/20722

Sorry, my geography of Waterloo Rd is hazy as it has been about 56 years since I went there regularly. I can recall the smell of the perm solution though! I don't remember the shop, I'm afraid. Some of the older ladies in Worcestershire still wear fur coats, though their grand daughters roll...

No, we have a Digital Audio Broadcasting system (DAB) in our cars and in some parts DAB+ as found in Continental Europe is available. Many radios have FM and AM as well. The problem with DAB is that it often gives inferior reception, despite the radios costing much more. (DAB+ is said to be...

Richard, AM certainly, usually called medium wave here. Satellite radio if you have a dish, usually for TV services. There has been a growth of internet radio streams which we can listen to via a computer, internet radio or with a module in a hi fi system. Derek

Richard, they are well maintained and there are two pairs of masts so one pair can carry the aerial while the other is repaired. We will see what happens to the site. FM in the UK is still high quality and many use digital radio (though reception isn't always brilliant). Domestically we can use...

BBC Radio 4 currently broadcasts on Longwave 198 kHz (just over 1500 metres in old money). But live cricket (Test Match Special) and the Shipping Forecast are now available elsewhere. The Droitwich transmission masts at Wychbold will probably be dismantled as analogue broadcasting ceases this...

And Eric Coates' Knightsbridge March signature tune of 'In Town Tonight'

A 'Tommy Knocker' is a hob or goblin, often thought to haunt mines. As a child, I knew the woods [like Leasowes Park- Blue Bell Dell] well in the 1960s -1970s, but I think this wood was long gone by then. Looking at the newspaper photo, I doubt this was done by children. More like housing...

An 11 cm Ogham inscribed stone found in a garden and now exhibited at the Herbert Art Gallery. Ogham was an early alphabet mainly used to inscribe names on stones, before early Irish adopted Latin...

A wapiti is apparently another name for an elk.

Happy Birthday Judy! Derek

Happy Birthday Mike! Derek

BBC iPlayer has Britain's Lost Masterpieces which has an episode devoted to Birmingham. It must have been in the can before BMAG was closed as we see the Round Room and the picture store. A thoughtful and interesting programme.

Same for me. No content or messages.

MWS Emigration a possibility. Try to look at shipping registers? As you say frustrating. The 1939 Register was apparently used for a long time to establish NHS eligibility. Derek

MWS Would she have been known by another name? People with 'foreign' names often changed them with the impending war. Another possibility is a woman who took the name of the man she was living with but was not married to. Perhaps because they were already married to other people? My paternal...

Happy Birthday, Frothblower! Derek