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Hi Viv, I've been looking for a picture of the warehouse for years so thank you! I know it was on a corner, possibly of Water Street, as they would have used the canals I would think for transporting goods. If I remember correctly it was there until the 1940's so should appear on fairly recent...

This is for all people of a certain age - Meet The Huggetts is on BBC Sounds 4x at the moment. Haven't had time to listen to it as I've been listening to Paul Temple. I'm pretty sure it was Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison in the main parts.

Crumbs Viv! I didn't realise that oat milk was going then - if only for horses. I thought it was something fairly modern. Just goes to show that there's nothing new ( I find it a bit thick in tea but OK on cereals - a bit like sterra). Wonder what the horses made of it? Where was No. 25 do you...

Thanks Janice, that really puts a date on the move and photo. Wonderful. RRJ. That's absolutely fine by me but I don't know who it belongs to. Suspect it's the council but as I've fallen out with them at the moment I really don't care!

Thank you RRJ. I thought the 'cottage' in the background looked remarkably like Wilmot House and you have confirmed it. I have been researching the family who I think built it, the Edials.

Hi Janice, Thanks for your input. I believe these photos were taken in the early 60's or even late 50's. I've got an idea that they were to do with the redevelopment of the area and were photocopies (possibly under-the-counter) from some council office. Penny

Some years ago I was given several photostats of photographs taken in Birmingham and I've been able to identify most of them. However, this one is still a mystery - can anyone say where it is please?

Viv, I was too taken up with the balconies to notice the horse although, a you say, it was centre stage! I wonder what regiment the men were from? There was a lot of recruitment in Birmingham for the marines around this time. I'm sure someone can tell us.

Really unusual picture Viv, I like the balconies!

We had a lovely box tree on the patio, trimmed (intermittently and inexpertly) into a cone shape. It looked very elegant but we returned from holiday to find that it had been decimated by the box tree moth. It was covered in caterpillars and despite the fact that my neighbour picked them all off...

Fascinating ed.s. A real glimpse into the past! I remember Mom cooking tripe and onions in milk for Dad in the evening and although he would always give me a little of whatever he was eating (I'd already had my tea), I never fancied tripe. I remember the pigs trotters too but not cow heels - any...

Thank you for that AnnS. It's not an area that I'm familiar with so I will investigate. I'm going to look at the Black Country Archives to see what they have too.

No problem Kat - not to worry. I'm not very experienced with roses and this year my climber had done exceptionally well so I was really disappointed. The storm affected other plants too. Still, we can't control the weather than we!

Thank you Janice, that's wonderful! Sylvanus lived in Bratt Street but I had no idea what his house was like. I have his will detailing a lot of land which he owned in Erdington and Sutton and I can now go to the West Bromwich Archives (if they still exist) and find out a little more about his...

Thanks Janice, I looked through their card index and couldn't find anything but I have missed things in the past - as you know!!

Sorry, forgot to say that I have Silvanus' will and apart from a few small bequests to family members he seems to have left all his real estate to the pub landlord and his son - your information explains why if he'd gone to live there in later years. Thanks.

It doesn't bloom for long Kat so I've lots of deadheading to do now!

Sitting watching the sudden storm taking most the blooms off my 'Generous Gardener' climbing rose. I could have done with another hour getting the weeds from the patio but rain has stopped play.

Thank you MWS - I don't know anything about FreeReg so must investigate. I tried everything I could think of so this is good news and I can see whether there's a gravestone now. Thanks again.

I'm trying to trace the burial of Silvanus (Sylvanus) Maybury whose death is registered in the first quarter of 1840 in West Bromwich. I thought he would be at All Saints Church but the burial doesn't come up on Ancestry as far as I can see. He seems to have had quite a connection to that...