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A wapiti is apparently another name for an elk.

Happy Birthday Judy! Derek

Happy Birthday Mike! Derek

BBC iPlayer has Britain's Lost Masterpieces which has an episode devoted to Birmingham. It must have been in the can before BMAG was closed as we see the Round Room and the picture store. A thoughtful and interesting programme.

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MWS Emigration a possibility. Try to look at shipping registers? As you say frustrating. The 1939 Register was apparently used for a long time to establish NHS eligibility. Derek

MWS Would she have been known by another name? People with 'foreign' names often changed them with the impending war. Another possibility is a woman who took the name of the man she was living with but was not married to. Perhaps because they were already married to other people? My paternal...

Happy Birthday, Frothblower! Derek

Theoretical cost of a spitfire in 1940 was said to be £5000, but the true cost must have been higher. KeyAero suggest £10,000 in 1940 prices.

That's good. Good luck - if there was an inquest then Birmingham Archives should have the papers. Death Cert would be signed by coroner. Stokkie.

If you would like to share his full name and date of death then we could look on Ancestry or Find my Past? Or you could have the free trial and look for yourself. You will probably need to order his death certificate from the General Register Office.https://www.gov.uk/general-register-office

Do you have a death certificate, Clivesky? There are some records from the 1890s in the Birmingham Archives, but they probably won't contain records of individual patients.

I've visited All Saints' Hospital in the 1970s singing carols on the wards. More personally Mother was treated as an outpatient as an overdose of L-Dopa for Parkinsons' Disease resulted in mania, paranoia and hallucinations. I'd like to acknowledge the care she received from her psychiatrist who...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Hospital,_Winson_Green https://www.countyasylums.co.uk/all-saints-winson-green-birmingham/ Winson Green Asylum, Birmingham City Asylum, Birmingham City Mental Hospital, Birmingham Mental Hospital the main block is in Lodge Road and not open to the...

Yes, Clivesky. Winson Green Asylum later became known as All Saints Hospital, but the building was the same. Derek

No, Richard. They were very much a 70s trend. But ryebread, prawns, rollmops, herring etc are available in supermarkets these days. Mother's friend Hilda introduced us to the Danish Food Centre and open sandwiches. These days we eat Swedish food in IKEA. There are also home delivery services...

Thank you for sharing your photos and family story. It is good that you were able to visit Canada and find that you have family there. There is a lot of research going on in Canada into the contribution British Home Children have made to the growth of the Canadian state in the early 20C. I hope...

Thanks Pedrocut, an interesting recent paper that can be downloaded and read free of charge. Which is a change for academic publications. Derek

We alway had a box in the kitchen cupboard, but I only remember it being used to clean the tannin out of aluminium teapots and sometimes put down the sink.

Absolutely right, Mike. I can only hope that some of the local jewellery companies will want to preserve their history. Derek