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Thanks, Biscayne. I have reminded myself that there is, also there, further information and an image of Lt. Walker. I can't check at the moment where that information originally came from. It was certainly provided to me by a grandson. Chris

The site is perfectly safe and should normally allow satisfactory viewing. (It's mine!) It seems as those names have been lurking in the staffshomeguard website for a long time. Names will normally be found by using the site Search function there; but not unfortunately when they are tucked away...

We are all groping around for causes and for solutions, until we establish what precisely has happened. So far no one has been entirely right and no one wrong. We may still stumble on an answer/workaround applicable to everyone - although I have my doubts about that. There has to be a strong...

You may be right, aston lad - but it doesn't seem to explain why, suddenly and apparently simultaneously, a number of members have started to have an identical problem - even when using different browsers and operating systems. We have asked Warren if he can apply his expertise and experience...

Thanks, Lyn. So the problem covers both Chrome and Edge.... If we want to get Warren to investigate this - and we need to as even using the workaround the situation isn't wholly satusfactory - we badly need more examples which might start to show some pattern. Chris

Thank you to RRJ for giving us a workaround for this new problem which a few members seem to have encountered. Has anyone else had a problem? If so, please let us know here. Please at the same time advise browser being used and also type of device. Chris

Welcome to the Forum, David. And thanks for the interesting question. I'm confident it will spark off thoughts amongst members. Here's Auden's 1937 work in full: As I walked out one evening Walking down Bristol Street The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat And down by the...

It's a rotten start to the New Year, for me. Just look at this lot. They've filled the tree. What do they know that I don't? Even if some of them are pretending not to look at me, I know they are, all of them. I don't like it..... Chris

Happy New Year to everyone and thanks for your support, contributions and fellowship. Chris

Chris - It might be worthwhile to do a BARRA search on immediately adjoining roads, as well. That might give a clue on date. BARRA website: https://database.birminghamairraids.co.uk/ Chris

Thanks for that, Pedrocut, Whatever our problems now, we can have no comprehension whatsoever of the feelings every parent must have had who were directly caught up in all this or were just being reminded about what was going on by reading the paper. It must have seemed that the world had been...

A Happy Christmas to everyone from me, small friend and neighbour's cat. (Streetly ca. 1942) Chris

(A MEMORY FROM EXACTLY 80 YEARS AGO) Thursday December 23rd. It's Christmas again - yippee! - the day after tomorrow. Saturday. Because you might get bored if there's nothing much on the wireless and you haven't been given the latest Biggles book or the 1944 Rupert Annual AND so you might...

I've just been reading the story of the unfortunate Austin Brown/Blind Jack and the wonderful efforts made by various members of this Forum to identify him and his family. Remarkable, considering how common the surname must be. I'd just like to mention the problems my elder brother had in the...

Thanks for that, Mike - sorry that I have only just noticed it. I too lived on the Chester Road, but nearer to the Manor Road/Bridle Lane crossroads. In the 1940s the family's newspapers used to come from near the Hardwick Arms but I am pretty sure that by the time I left the area in 1961, the...

Welcome to the Forum, Kevthe45King, and thanks for making a useful contribution in this thread which, in the main, now goes back many years. Let's hope that we can have more Streetly memories to add to what is here, perhaps from newer members who have joined since the earlier posts in this...

Jack Milroy took over the vacant tenancy of the farm in the late 1930s from Birmingham Corporation and farmed it until all the land was developed for housing much later, in the postwar years. My partner spent her childhood there but unfortunately I know nothing of its earlier history. Chris

Throughout my life I've tried to keep the sight of what's on my plate and the image of living creatures as far apart as possible. Either my Mum and Dad had similar sensitivities despite the need to feed a family in the most difficult circumstances, or they recognised them within me. At some...

Before the war, my family always had holidays on a farm in the South Hams area of Devon. The outbreak of war and rationing led to a mutually beneficial arrangement between us and the farmer's wife. She would select the plumpest bird out of whatever flock they had – usually goose, sometimes...

We do indeed!! Chris