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Thanks for the update. I have seen and been in the Avoncroft several times. I don’t know the model but its identical the one that were on Court Lane Erdington adjacent to Short Heath Park. I think there were a couple of different models

Happy birthday Froth, have a super day

Stay safe Richard

Ok got it. It’s a photo from the Bill Dargue website, a Birmingham historian who had spent years researching. It’s a super site. Its looks like his research is post WWI so maybe not be any use in this case, but here a link for completeness.

Richard, that the problem in my opinion. I am all for small businesses and startups, they need support but also some regulation. In the UK Company’s house does zero monitoring so we get a lot of wannabe developers who destroy historic building and then liquidate the company. The crooked house...

I think this photo was posted on a face book group some time back so cannot validate its location, or date but the file name is suggestion its Castle Brom Airfield and looks like the temporary wartime accommodation that was in Spring Lane Erdington.

The problem I see with this and a few other sites that have been destroyed is Company’s House. It ridiculously easy to set up a limited liability company and register it with them. If there is a full stop or a comer missing from the return or it’s a day late company’s house will find them, but...

yes thats him

Fredrick Horace Moore

Unfortunately, he was not the best conversationalist with kids, we were here to be seen and not heard, so I never really had much in the way of meaningful conversations with him. A lot of what I know about him is anecdotal from my own father. There were photos of him in an RAC uniform, but when...

My grandfather who by coincidence lived just off Gravelly Hill was a WWI flight engineer and pilot. He also said that there were a lot of flying accidents then; said he witnessed a fatality a week. He had a couple of close calls and did a couple of forced landing where he had to hedgehop while...

Well, that sounds like one of those story’s that could endure. I have this memory of seeing a photo of an event near Gravelly hill, but it’s quite vague. In 1916 flying was still in its infancy and there were a lot of mishaps. I recently was able to help a history group in Netherseal who had a...

I thought he same too, absolutely underwhelming. Its has the look of a place that’s got no identity or theme, so a committee chucked a whole load of ideas in the melting pot and tried to incorporate all of them, badly. Its still a museum that wants to tell you what they think you should know.

I have been in this on a hard hat tour a couple of years ago while still under reconstruction. It is a very interesting building and one worth saving as there are good alternative uses for it. I thought they were stretching the father of the skyscraper story a bit far in all honesty. If I...

Mike Looks like the site has been hacked or cloned.

No problem, enjoy

I love all of the sooty back building, the signature of an industrial era

There is a bronze stature of Vesta Tilley in Worcester.

Ok here you go for a link to the Warstone Cemetery thread and the right page https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/warstone-lane-cemetery.5395/page-7

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