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  1. fergie

    St Asaph’s Church

    Try www.search.digital-ladywood.org.uk there is a photo posted showing Lower Cregoe Street.
  2. fergie

    St Asaph’s Church

    According to my A-Z, Cregoe Street comes off Great Colmore Street,which comes off Bell Barn Road I believe this use to be part of the Kings Norton District. It is a recent A-Z.
  3. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    Boy the streets don't look like that anymore, wheres all the chip paper and stuff.
  4. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    Thats a good photo, not that I have any idea what the factory looked like. Is that the one in Armoury Road?
  5. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    I understand and isn't this what use make people proud to be British and from Birmingham, I cannot understand for the life of me why companies want to take their business else where and I don't believe it has anything to do with cost when the quality is so poor. I sometimes wonder if we are at...
  6. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    Hi Pam Unfortunately I don't have any names, I think Mom found it with some of my Nan's stuff including a letter that my Grandad sent to her when the family were evacuated to Stoke, he remained in Birmingham because of work and to find them a house. I know that they were in the middle of the...
  7. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    Thank you
  8. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    Do you remember sending me the photo's of a relative Barnett fro Texas I forwarded them to a relative she hasn't come up with anything yet, but if you recall I , mentioned my dad met mom in Birmingham when he was based here with the USAF.  This photo is of my dad William Erle Hilburn and my...
  9. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    Cromwell you are a star its perfect, how did you do that? I have HP Imager but it won't let me restore photo's...........
  10. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    The site I put on Galleries/Links www.birminghamstories.co.uk gives information about BSA. When I put this photo on I wasn't sure which was my grandfather but looking on here and comparing it to a photo of Charles in about 1956-57 I believe that he resembles the man on the right of the photo...
  11. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    I saw your chat on the Ackers Trust and found it very interesting.  I went there in 1995-6 to take ski-ing lessons.  Armoury Road isn't to far from there is it?  The reason I am posting information about my family and requests is that not only do I have an interest but my Mom is very...
  12. fergie

    BSA Factory 1940s Onwards

    Edit. This thread is about the Birmingham Small Arms factory from the 1940s onwards. For discussion about the factory in other periods please see the thread links here: BSA early years to the late 1800s...
  13. fergie

    Bsa Factory 1900s - 1930s

    Edit. This thread is about the Birmingham Small Arms factory during 1900s - 1930s. For discussion about the factory in other periods please see the thread links here: BSA early years to late 1800s...
  14. fergie

    LATCHFORD

    Spoke to Mom they no longer live at the address not too sure why but I remembered when she told me that their Dad use to work at Monyhull Hospital a Charge Nurse (male sister) I think. The Latchfords may have been special guests at the Hospitals summer fete's in the 80's.
  15. fergie

    Bartlett Underhill huckerby taylor stallard and lambon

    These are all the names in my family. My grandfather Charles Samuel Bartlett married Jane Underhill, her mother my ggmother was Jane Huckerby her father Thomas Huckerby married to Rosina Stallard my gggparents. Alfred Bartlett my ggfather married Leah Taylor her father gggfather Samuel Taylor...
  16. fergie

    LATCHFORD

    He is Bob Latchford he had brothers who played footy too don't recall their names. Mr and Mrs Latchford lived in Lindsworth Road Kings Norton and were neighbours of my mother I'll ask her for some information today who knows!
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