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Knowing the Council - it will be quite some tiome and only cover the present - Can you not continue and finish the project?

WL - Site of Public Graves P 1757 Rear & P 1758 foreground. Immediately to the right are P 1735 (rear) & P 1736 (Front). The tree shown was (yesterday) about to be chopped down and removed - the stumps will remain. Visible behind are the 4th & 3rd floor apartment windows of the former Birmingham...

Hi Bob, There are a few Thrupps in WL - THRUPP 1959 P 1406 105611 Stillborn Arthur W 1909 K 17 (Vault) 65297 Henry W 1926 D 1358 89638 Rachel 1935 O 1129 94027 Reginald S 1918 K 37 (Vault) 82394 Richard T R 1907 D 1059 62978 William 1915 P 1736 80793 P 1736 is an unmarked Public Grave...

Nice Pic Wendy, The large building at the top of the hill is still there - painted white - the GEM building. Just before it, you can see the pillars of the GPO Sorting office wall ans entrance. KH Cemetrery is opposite them

I drooled over your window just as you were taking it over! many a happy hour spent dreaming over the Hornby Catalogues!

I went to Central Grammer, behind these shops in Gressel lane. The end shop used to sell Hornby railways - often spent some time staring in that window!

Cheers Ell - A great pic of the part of the cemetery - not seen that shot before - they usually seem to cut out the cemetery! Brian

Cheers Bob, I understood one of my uncles worked with horses at hockley for a time, but never knew where!

I understood there were also stable there for the delivery horses, but unsure where. I can recall the warehouse that were still there in 1971/2 - massive places with space for hundreds of wagons.

Sorry Viv, Cattle were certainly detrained and stored at Hockley, maybe fopr 'resting' or something. My Mum remebers they occasionally had run-aways / escapees on the Flat nearby.

I drank here at times in the 1972-3. It was a bit sad and run down by than - agree with 'depressing'!

VIv, Mikes map on 370 is of Hockley Goods Depot by Key Hill cemetery, not Snow Hill. The "Subway" is Ickniled St - a single lane road than - now a dual carriageway. THe warehouses went across the bridhe, obscuring the view of trains from the Spring Hill Library side. The noise of the trucks...

My own experiences with several Cemetery offices is that a general email is obviously a 'fishing trip' and therefore can wait. If someone just asks for 1 persons grave details in order to visit, they believe they will quickly look, and double check if they do not find them. If you do get a reply...

My experience is that nearest cemeteries is not always the case. Depends upon if the cemetery of your choice has a time/date available to suit both you and your undertakers. Normally undertakeers will offer a choice of dates/places that they can do i.e Iget ito x on y day at z time, or get into...

Possibly Witton - or handsworth - botyh popular & busy at that time or even Perry barr Crem? Brian

Not showing in Key Hill or Warstone Lane. Brian

Heard from Helen Blain - the great granddaughter of Marie Beauclerc's brother Richard Beauclerc. She has written a book on Marie, ( buried at key Hill Cemetery) and has included a segment on Key Hill Cemetery and the work of The Friends of Key Hill Cemetery. She lives in Australia, and so cannot...

Hi Andrew, The surving memorial that you have photographed is B 1794. B 1793 would have been to the left of this - you can see the corbals on the wall wher it used to sit. Many of these have fallen or been pulled off the wall, broken & either burioed where they fell, or removed as scrap in the...

https://www.birminghamclubsforyoungpeople.btck.co.uk/EarlswoodLogCabinCampSite There's a pic on their website. had some good weekends in the laye '60's & early '70's with the Boys Brigade & Youth Club from Glebe Farm Baptist Church Brian