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Hi Lyn, Your pics came out much better than the few I tried with my little digital! Left hand view in Pic 1 is looking from Gt King St down towards Guest St. Bridge St West is at the back of the houses. House 53 is the right hand one visible, counting down to 79 - we are just about visible in...

This island was originally in honour of John Baskerville - What has happened to him? I did not notice where the information panel had gone to - has it been relocated? He is buried in the catacombs below where the circle is. The civilian dead were buried in their own family graves wherever...

Passed through WL Cemetery yesterday as I was passing by. I noticed there is a new Monument to WW1 fallen - small black with a Red Rose carved in it. It has been placed on what was Baskerville Island - and the info panel bout Baskerville has been removed. I tried to upload a pic but the imaging...

Key hill was a slog, but Warstone was the mammoth task - almost 106,000! Many months of an hour or so every night! Hopefully it's something which will be of use for a long time to come! Am managing now to do work on my own family tree, but with over 64 lines to track between the Wife and I - I...

Sadly, Church graves are often moved, not only for building, but for making more space. After a century or so, they get pretty full, and often area's are 'cleared' - headstones afre removed to outer walls, remains are collected and reburied in a small corner plot somewhere - They would never...

Hi Rosie - good news indeed! There area a few of the larger Common Graves in C Section, Key Hill, that now lie under or partly under the extra retaining wall abutments on the corner of Key Hill Drive - as far we know, there were movement of remains, just the dumping of the headstones that would...

Would I be wasting my time? Yes! Graves in front of the church are few now. many headstones have been used for paths, or lining the sides of the pathway, often broken, some barely legible now. The churchyard to rear was an overgrown brambley jungle the last few time I visited. The garden of...

Walter Edwin Knight (R.A.M.C.) was my Maternal nan's 1st husband - Only 10 weeks left - he almost made it, if he had, I probably wouldn't be here! He is listed on a panel just inside the main doors of Aston Parish Church - St Peter & St Paul. Access is now through the 'new wing' into the far...

Great News indeed. Some years ago I was asked to take some pics of V.C. Graves for an author - Quinton did not even know they had one there, Witton said Military grave sightseers were an nuisance - they gace out info, but got no income from it.... Yardley had a printed list almost to hand of all...

Barbara Flynn never dates! Still got that girl next door eyes & cheeky little grin, even with have n=both aged a little since..... She was great in the Beiderbeck affair soon after, and wasn't given a big enough part in Open All hours. Family at war was a superb drama - still enjoy it - enjoy...

Joe, There was a an almost similar sized operation at Moor St Station - great good shed underneath the railway station with lifts for wagons to up and down in - which served the Markets. There were vehicles entrances in the walls under the bridge in park St - later used as a car park. Virtually...

Speedwing some pics of Hockley from railways views on https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrhd1657.htm Brian

Gosh Mike, that is almost the same shot as previous, but after the place has closed - Exactly as it was early 1972! Superb. Brian

Must pop down in the daytime and go into the yard for a closer look. Haven't been on the metro through there so cannot say what it looks like at track level these days.

Good Pic, I tried to look Thursday as I was passing but by than (7pm) the gates were locked up for the night! There are a few pics of the bridge on this site (or were). The warehouses of the Railway went over the bridge - there were quite a lot of sidings - a very big busy Goods depot in it's...

Blues could do no worse than the Villa did - get up a good strong youth squad - they will play their hearts out for a first team pace, for a lot less money than many high costing players. Cheaper & local - help encourage fans to stay loyal & local. Brian

The weighbridge in the pic was abandoned by 1972 - we had to take the lorry with the cable we had cut to Avery's for weighing, than into Signalling & Telecomms Stores in Vittoria St, Soho (part of the Multiple Unit Depot) to be locked in a van for onward shipment. The cables were in hooks on the...

Hi, Lynn, I assume it was filled in when the warehouses were demolished - it just modern lightweight industrial units now. If you can ever find the scrap timber yard open opposite KH cemetery gates, the openings are still there in the white tiles wall which lead to a ramp that went up the Rail...

Hi Terry, There's the entrance to the subway which went under the Goods shed and came out on the Key Hill side of the Railway Tracks! Drive under there in 1972 when we were removing the lineside cables for scrap. Once over the tracks - you can could drive all the way to Snow Hill Stn!

90th Foot were Originally Perthshire Volunteers, although they recruited all over. I assume as you (Christine) are a Brummie, your relative may have also been one? Military records are held at National Archives, Kew. They may have Muster Rolls for the period in question which list all the...