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Like many older men I don't have much of a sense of smell. This is often a blessing. I have smelled tallow candles, so if Aston Hall used these for authenticity, then they do smell horribly.

Dry rot perhaps? I visited many times in the early 1990s and didn't smell anything particularly. But I hope they have dealt with any rot and repaired timbers in recent years. A decaying mummy would certainly smell!

"For the festive season, Aston Hall will once again be lit up by LED candlelight for its Christmas by Candlelight tours. From Friday 12 December to Sunday 14 December, visitors can step back in time to find out how Christmas was celebrated in the past and learn about the origins of traditions...

Apparently the Beaufighter cockpit section can be seen at Midland Air Museum, Baginton where it is on long term loan which occurred before the building of Think Tank. At least it will be seen by many aircraft enthusiasts there. Discussed at...

Happy Birthday, Janice. Have a lovely day!

https://memorial-loire42.fr/le-memorial/les-fondateurs/ Ado RAIMOND (1921-2013) is remembered in a Resistance memorial. (Trans) 'Adolphe Louis Raimond, known as Ado, is 20 years old in 1941. "I condemned the Vichy policy and I wanted to settlescores with the enemy." My father was a member of...

Hello Quibell, Have you seen this thread? https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/grandfathers-house-mr-albert-raimond-handsworth-and-cyclo-gear-difficulty-in-finding-correct-address.52251/ Albert Raimond returned to France before the war. He was in the Resistance with his son Ado and...

Milk Street is still there Dianne as you may know. And there's a Back-to-Backs museum in Hurst Street https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmingham-west-midlands/birmingham-back-to-backs. Well worth a visit if you haven't been.

Welcome to BHF, Dianne. How lovely to visit your UK family so often. There must have been a few GI brides. I was surprised to discover years later that I'd grown up near USAAF Station 522 in Beakes Road Smethwick which supplied and repaired radio and radar equipment. All kept hush-hush so no-one...

I was in the scouts with lad whose family were Jowett enthusiasts in the late 60s early 70s. A fabulous looking car and I remember those 'suicide' front doors.

Ansells went for a Burton in 1981. I'm surprised that's 44 years ago! The cask conditioned mild stopped being produced in 2012.

Sylvia posted about this #216 in https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/old-saying.188/page-8 Was your dad ever in the forces, Maria? It seems to describe the row in a canteen. Chow came to English from Chinese for food. Doubling the sound or word is a common way of making new words. I've...

There was a Firkins on Bearwood Rd Smethwick. Custard slice, Eccles cake and those pineapple tarts with icing on the top. Don't know about Firkins in Birmingham?

Pub is still there, but it's called the Patrick Kavanagh now. He was a well-known Irish poet. He didn't live in Birmingham as far as I'm aware, but he was certainly fond of drink! I am sorry to read of the experience of your birth mother. Times have changed for the better.

As noted in this thread the Traf had a bad reputation for a while. It reopened as Patrick Kavanagh (the name of a fine Irish poet now deceased). I guess they wanted a fresh start. His poem 'On Raglan Road' became a well-known song sung by Luke Kelly of the Dubliners.

The outside of the Troc is much as it was. And it seems to be thriving still.

Great post, Freddy. Though the baths are long gone amazingly the building can be seen at the Black Country Living Museum! Geograph Creative Commons.

Ancestry now have digital records covering All Saints Hospital 1845-1931. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/mental-hospital-records-on-ancestry.59077/

How did you do this Oldbrit? Photoshop?

Ancestry has some digitised records Birmingham, England, All Saints Hospital Records, 1845-1931 I found my great grandfather who was admitted in 1885 for some years. He had handwritten records running back over the years and remarks that he had been an in-patient at Northampton Asylum 40 years...