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When I was being "kitted out" for grammar school I was given my first fountain pen by an aunt and uncle as a reward for passing my eleven plus. They told me that they had been "all the way up to Stamford & Mann" to choose it and to make sure I looked after it. I did so all the way through my...

I can't remember the golf course but found a couple of pics showing myself and my dad with putting green in the background and one of my dad on the putting green taken around 1950. Was this separate from the pitch & putt? Also remember boating on the lake and also fishing there in my teens. I...

I certainly remember "Clarence" and enjoyed it. Unfortunately today it couldn't be shown without a howling protest from the "Woke" generation as it's comedy relied upon Clarence having myopic vision. The same applies to that great cartoon series Mr Magoo. Sad times now.:confused:

The lad concerned was a few years older than me. One of his friends I recall was a lad named Plant who lived in Sheldon. I used to deliver papers to his house in Forest Hill Road.

I was there between 1961 and 1966

At this time of year my wife's thoughts have turned to Christmas cards and can we get them online due to the lockdown. I suggested we tried designing our own, not a difficult task these days on a computer. I then remembered that each year a school card was produced, printed and sold in the...

Sorry but unfortunately I can't see this message. Is it posted to the forum?

1949 was definitely a vintage year.

Was it similar to this one? This is the type my Nan had at her prefab. in Yardley Wood.

This is the page from the Auction Catalogue when the farm was sold at auction in 1919

Sorry Bob but it's too small for me to see any detail. I've tried downloading and using the zoom but as the picture gets bigger the more blurred it becomes.

The printed form can be seen on my amended post showing the details they were requried to give.

Ancestry has the record of this marriage but only the bride, groom and witness names

Quick google search came up with this https://davenportalmshouses.org.uk/ Like you Lyn I too had never heard of this charity

Could the B.L. engraving stand for British Legion? I know that the Sheldon Ivy League branch had an active air rifle shooting section in the 1960s. Does anyone know of a British Legion club with the initials BCC?

Now that we've seen a picture of the original hallmark although blurred I would agree that it is Chester and not Newcastle which was first shown to us by Daniel on post#6

Me too utterly surprised! Also surprised that Inigo Jones is described as a prominent Parliamentarian. My first thought of him was as an Architect.

I don't know about Aston Park but in the 1950s/60s I can recall an outdoor roller rink at Tamworth in the Castle Pleasure Gardens. Could this be the one in the picture perhaps....?

Unfortunately the farm is no longer there. It was sold and became the Birmingham Business Park. As far as the Barn dances were concerned I can confirm that several were held there. I remember my sister in law saying she was approached by some officers from Coleshill Police Station (The one on...