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Please Note: The image I'm referring to in my last post also shows the East Prospect with Cooper's Flemish design Mill on the hill behind.

Hi Viv, firstly let me apologise for the scans - I haven't got the hang on this new PC yet - my other one crashed and I lost everything having not backed up for some time (everyone please note this warning!). In the first picture (Paul Leslie Line's book, Birmingham A History in Maps) you can...

Brilliant picture Cybil5973, it would be good to work out what the other buildings are. Pugin designed this cathedral to 'rise up' from its poor surroundings and every time I pass I wonder what he would make of the surroundings now. Am I right in thinking he modelled it on a cathedral in Paris...

My Auntie Dolly and Uncle Arthur circled in red. Not sure Mom would have been there as she was 18 at the time. Can't find the rest of my relatives yet but will keep looking.

Steve, we quite often watch Salvage Hunters on TV and the metal stools in the centre of the photo (post 646) are now worth a fortune. I wonder how many of them were just thrown on the skip when the factory closed. Wish I could remember what make they were.

Hi donnaexpat, my husband lived in No. 38 with his Nan, Mom & Dad until about 1954 when they moved to Bordesley Green.

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Another member has messaged me to say that he has a suitable drive so, fingers crossed, I should be OK thanks once again to this brilliant forum. Once I've sorted myself out I shall look at the info supplied above with regard to Lord Somery and...

I wondered if it was the same family mw)njm - any ideas how I can get the pictures off the floppy?

Good Morning, I have a disc but no computer to open it on! A long time ago I interviewed a lady for the church magazine who was a nursery nurse at the Cottage Homes. She volunteered to be evacuated during WW2 to Wales. At first they were housed at a Youth Hostel at Arthog / Dolgellau but Lord...

Well, here's a photo of the other (obverse/reverse) side of the token. Not that it helps much though. It's a poor image and the token is quite worn but it was made in Birmingham. The centre you can read as 3d and as far as we can make out the wording says made by ???? Die Sinkers, Something...

Thanks for filling in some information on this pub Mike. I know that the powers that be decided to reduce the numbers of public houses in Birmingham at some point but I'm not actually sure how the consolidation scheme affected them. Or am I getting confused with the time they closed pubs and...

Thanks for moving my post - didn't think it came under Birmingham Breweries.

Thank you both. The Kings Arms then - pretty obvious when you think about it. Which I didn't!

The attached image is a 'find' from a Leicestershire field. I don't seem to have taken a photo of the other side for some reason but will ask for one. There's no pub name on it but it does say 'Inn' and High Street. It also gives the name Henry Oliver and West Bromwich. I tried 'The Lion and...

The finding of gold coins on an other thread prompted me to post these pictures. My cousin is a deterctorist and found this token in a field in Leicestershire. Unfortunately its not gold!

Hi Emo, there is a long photo from 1961 earlier on this thread as you probably know. I'm attaching a section of this and I'm on the back but one row, third from the left. I had very blond (natural) hair and look bald! I expect you're on the long photo too as you were still there in summer1961.

A very interesting photo - all those supervisors checking that the operators were doing their jobs properly. I was wondering what the men were doing and the ladies in the middle of the room seated at the desks. Telegrams? Message services? Perhaps we'll never know.

Sorry meant to include the following: A boot and shoe clicker is the person who cuts the uppers for boots or shoes from a skin of leather or piece of man-made material (usually from a bulk roll). This includes all components of the upper, including linings, facings, stiffeners, reinforcements...

Very interesting report Viv. My Gt Aunt Augusta was a boot 'clicker' in Birmingham around the turn of the 20th century.

Thank you so much Janice - that photo is just what I've been looking for. I didn't think it was on the photo of the corner posted earlier as I thought that was the area that my ancestor had a house. However, I've been wrong before! Well done! Penny