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Lyn, You may well be right but I haven't access to them, sorry.

Today I have come across a photograph of a distant ancestor also in a frame with Powls & May of Summer Lane. The lady photographed was named Annie McCracken and she lived in Birmingham between 1886 and the 1950s I'm sure she was just one of thousands who sat for a photographic portrait but it...

I came across this entry in the criminal registers for Warwickshire 1852 Does anyone know to what a cartilage refers in this description of an offence?

I have posted this picture before on the prefabs thread but here it is again Mom and I outside the front door of 847 taken around 1950/51. It must have been newly built as the garden hadn't been planted yet. Somewhere I have another taken with my Dad "helping" him to dig the garden.

I seem to recall on my journey to school on the No 11 bus that we passed a Sea Cadet establishment in Acocks Green just down from the Railway station. I thought that was T.S. Vernon or is my memory playing tricks?

I seem to recall on my journey to school on the No 11 bus that we passed a Sea Cadet establishment in Acocks Green just down from the Railway station. I thought that was T.S. Vernon or is my memory playing tricks?

When did your family move out Rita? I can recall the couple that moved in after your family had gone. I know the guy worked as a groundsman at King Edwards Camp Hill in Vicarage Road, my old school.

Interesting to see the occupants of 847 in 1950. My Nan, Louisa Webb together with her stepdaughter and and step grandaughter Alice and Margaret Gilkes lived there also. I also lived there very briefly with my Mom and Dad around 1951 before we moved to Sheldon. I wonder when my Gran moved in? I...

Is the lad at the front 2nd from left wearing a Covid face mask?:D

On my one and only visit to the Dolls Club I was only 16, still at school and very naive. Some of the guys in there I was convinced were gangsters and they scared the ........ out of me. Strangely enough at a later date I was at a friend's house when his sister came in with some of her pals and...

Just discovered that ancestors on my paternal grandmothers side were resident at the Barrel Tavern. I am presuming they were the landlord and landlady. 1922 and 1925 electoral rolls show them there. This is from 1925 Electoral Roll.

I think the Fulford Hall reference in the other thread is erroneous. The locations for Grove Farm and 58 Camp Hill are quite close to each other in Birmingham whereas Fulford Hall is in Solihull I believe.

Have a look at #1 Grove farm Fulford Hall thread. Same building but different picture.

Came upon this thread today. Absolutely great. Thank you to all contributors.

Have found a bit more info here Also from Rootschat That seems to explain it all. Thanks very much for your info and interest

Looking at your example there are the initials BIR under the number. In my case it is DE. I'm assuming that BIR is for Birmingham and DE is for Derbyshire as the entry address is Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Thanks for that. I couldn't find a marriage between the two of them so that must be it as her death reg. says Footit.

Can someone help me with the attached 1939 register entry please. I am trying to find out what the green ink amendments mean. I know that the one on the right is "known as" but does anyone know what the alpha/numerical reference is. Thank you in advance Jim