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Thanks a lot, it looks better, the four year old just told me in future we do any in JPEG not PDF and don't hold your breath but with a red letter day on 1st April, retirement after 68 years of work, I should be able to scan some of the Birmingham postcards I have and any not on here I will put...

This picture was passed to me by a distant cousin (many times removed). He advised that it was of Frederick Vanstone (my grandfathers brother) who had used horse drawn transport for deliveries from the railway and now with the first motorised truck for the LMS in Birmingham to be used for rail...

Interesting in the pictures of the 1950s and 1960s, all the ladies are in dresses or skirts, no jeans, track suit bottoms, shell suits (remember them) or trainers. I know in the sixties the mini skirt came in, but when did women move over to jeans or similar and trainers. Bob

You are an absolute star to go to all this trouble for me, Henry has been a pain in the butt ever since I discovered him. His only records are on IGI, on FreeBMD and ancestry etc he does not appear until his misspelt name in 1851 living in Stoney Lane and then three years later he dies in...

Thanks again I have always assumed brougham to be a misspelling of Birmingham and unfortunately there was no house number in the church entry for the burial, just Cregoe Street. Bob

Thanks for the map, the address translation I wanted was the Solihull one, but looking at your map, this is a long way to go every day Bob

Is there a thread with any pictures of Crego Street?

Thank you again, why I asked about Solihull is because on page 8, Solihull Borough 1841 census, second entry is a Henry Durose an agricultural labourer and I have often wondered if this was my Henry and the name misspelt so many times was written Incorrectly. But can you translate the...

Thanks Bob

He was an agricultural labourer, so possibly he lived in a tied house owned by one of the farms, but thanks for your help. Why he moved to Crego Street I will never know, he is a mystery man anyway, no birth, no wedding but children and a wife including one born about the time of his death...

Very many thanks , zany idea what sort of dwelling it was? Bob

Durows, although it is in as Darows Bob

I'll say it again hear, hear or is it here, here and thanks for a fascinating thread, particularly because of the now and then comparisons that are available. Bob

I have just looked up a relative on the 1851 census and the entry shows them living in the parish of Kings Norton, the village of Sparkbrook in what looks like Honey Lane. Did such a lane exist or have I translated the name incorrectly? Interestingly the father died four years later and they...

Hear, hear. Bob

Wellingtons are to knee height, galoshes were a waterproof overshoe, my posh grandmother from Slade Road had a pair which she put on when shr went out on wet days. Bob

Mine had an ignition key I am certain and certainly a double saddle, I think there was also a bantam on the petrol tank.

Part of my lunchtime reading today, very interesting, sad very little mention of my model a 125 bantam, the later model with he fishtail exhaust and full double saddle, top speed about 70, had some good times on it, never let me down once. The reg was FFK, picked it up in Leominster, out on...

Knew him slightly, certainly knew of him, but not someone I was in constant contact with. I was in the engineering order office. Bob

Terribly sorry, did not notice. Bob