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Maybe a misprint Lin - There was/is a Moillett St off Dudley Rd, just before Rotton Park Rd, but on the opposite side. Maybe a misprint Lin - There was/is a Moillett St off Dudley Rd, just before Rotton Park Rd, but on the opposite side. Bri

Smudge, Depending on where you are coming from - if it directs you via Witton /Outer Circle, you will see as you turn into Moor Lane that there is no exit that way. If so, when you finish in Cemetery aim for the Ridgeway Exit - exactly opposite entrance but up hill. Right turn out of Cemetery...

Plenty of parking in Witton, Smudge. Entrance in Moor Lane opposite the pub & Stonemasons yard, Office round to left with small car parking area. Main cemetery has plenty of roadways with room to park and still be passed, but potholes a plenty, so drive slowly! If it's been raining and they...

Looking at the rootsweb article - I wonder if the Obelisk is where 209 Gt King St was?

Looking at the rootsweb article - I wonder if the Obelisk is where 209 Gt King St was?

Lin - you have to remember that they obliterated Little King St, and even moved that section of Great King St - all to accommodate the Ring Road. Imagine from the white House - only a single lane N J St W, the depth of the houses than Little King St - It looked about right to me some years ago...

It must be in pics 2 & 3 of post no. 1 of this thread.

There is a stone obelisk on the site (approx.) of the factory - now an area of green space - no remnant of Little King St exists. It must have been on the left as you come from Gt King St toward Guest St, near the Gt King St end, if the siting of the obelisk is accurate.

There is a stone obelisk on the site (approx.) of the factory - now an area of green space - no remnant of Little King St exists. It must have been on the left as you come from Gt King St toward Guest St, near the Gt King St end, if the siting of the obelisk is accurate.

I should imagine he served in Montreal with the British forces that fought off an American Invasion of Canada in 1812 - whilst we were tied up fighting Napoleon's forces in Spain. That was the campaign where we burnt the original American White House - the one they have today is a replacement...

Often passed the place when working at Tyseley on B.R. end of '71 and through '72. when we went off in the gang lorry to wherever we had to work that day. Often saw a few chaps still hanging around in the hope of someone hiring them for the dy.

Cheers Eddie - will keep a look out for it. Brian

The more history you read, you realise the more things do not really change! Bet he had few tales to tell, her Gran, like most of her era, never really spoke about the past - too busy trying to keep alive in the present! Is the book a recent publication? Brian

My wife's grandmother's 1st husband fought at Atbara with the 1st Warks. He had joined in 1893 aged 19. Served in Britain Jan 1893 - Oct 1894 Ceylon Oct 1894-Mar 1896 Malta Mar 1896 - Jan 1897 Egypt Jan 1897 - Oct 1898 East Indies Oct 1898 - Apr 1905 Home & Discharged April 1905 Received the...

Joanne Malin mentioned it on the lunch news - not into receivership yet, but they are bankrupt in China?

1) It may cost extra if there are Headstones, etc to remove 2) It may cost extra if it's in the middle of the plot and they cannot get their JCB next to it - have to be hand dug. 3), probably costs more because of care to be taken - not breaking into adjacent grabs, or previous underlying...

Cheers Stars - keeping busy with my tree - I have to find them - not like Lin - the trees come to her! Just found Elizabeth's sister Emily is Housemaid to Robert Lucas Chance - him who's in Key Hill - of Chance Glass - who did the 1851 Great Exhibition glass work! Where would all these great...

Cheers Lin! A lot better than most of his parishioners!

Inherently, just discovered this morning that a distant cousin of mine, Elizabeth Bolus, born 1842, Coleshill is the Housemaid in 1861 of the Rector of St Georges! Looks like he is Rev'd William Locking, (Ancestry has him as Reed William Cooking!) of 142 Hockley Hill. He has 7 children, Cook...

Very well decked out! Those were also the days it was a public road and you go down it - later they presumably purchased it, and put gates at each end, refusing access for non workers.