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The airshow lasted two weeks - August 11-27th. My wife tells me that we went but sadly I have no recollection. There was also a fly past by a Lancaster according to "Billesley and Surrounds".

This is Woodbridge Road in Moseley about 1905. I don't think it's been posted before. Classic Edwardian street scene. The Trafalgar Hotel is on the right. Building still there but renamed the Patrick Kavanagh. I do wish they would leave pub names alone - 100 years of history changed! The tall...

Just to clarify - Billesley Common was historically much larger than the present "Billesley Common" and spread for some distance on both sides of Yardley Wood Road.

The Vulcan was an incredible machine. Impressive in flight and noisy but instantly recognisable. The Midland Air Museum [near Coventry Airport] has a Avro B2 Vulcan in its collection and it's even more impressive close up. Was allowed to sit in the cockpit [very cramped] but that was many years...

Early aviation in Birmingham started with the founding of the Birmingham Aero Club in 1909. In 1911 they moved to a field on Billesley Farm. While researching the Prosser family of St Agnes Road, Moseley, I discovered that young Edwin Prosser was an early member of the Birmingham Aero Club and...

Ernie - Still need author/title to trace a copy. Might be out of print but available second hand.................................

That's very helpful. The Holdsworths were listed as the shareholders when it went into liquidation. Have attached two more phots. - one of the door into the textile section and one showing a button molding machine. These were from 2015 when much remained in the factory. Lots more pics at...

This building is on the corner of Maypole Lane/Highters Heath Lane B14. The picture shows the front [office block etc] - the factory is to the rear and wasquite substantial. My wife who lived near the Maypole said that it was known locally [1950s] as the Eiderdown Factory. We still have...

Here's a phot of St Marks, Ladywood. Demolished 1947.

Just been to the library and came across this book: Billesley and Surrounds by John Lerwill & Pete Haylor [2018] NOT 1918 as first posted = apols Well worth a read - masses of info on the area and lots of phots. Love these local books written by local people. It contains a phot of Haunch Farm...

I know Birmingham [BCC] is in financial meltdown but have just read the proposals for community libraries. The council plans to turn 11 of the existing 36 venues [ie community libraries] into joint 'library and neighbourhood advice service hubs' - putting the other 25 under threat. That leaves...

My wife's father served in both World Wars. But what I didn't know until just now,was that he served in the medical corp in WWI and was based at Sorrento when it was a military hospital. I've attached a copy of ebay postcard said to be 1908. Not very good quality but on the back it details the...

My wife was born at Sorrento back in 1945 and has just read this thread and found it very interesting. This is from Birmingham Archives Dept. which answers some of the queries about its origins. More phots to follow later. AccessConditions Records containing sensitive information about...

This is quite an old thread but there are some interesting notes and maps about Haunch Heath/Farm giving field names on Andy Underscore's brilliant website at https://andyunderscore.com/2017/10/31/haunch-heath-1838/ Also some interesting notes on Kings Heath farms including Haunch Farm at...

Just been given a booklet called "All Saints Hospital 1847-1997: commemorative brochure 7th Sept 1997. In 1845 an Act was passed to amend the laws for the registration and provision of lunatic asylums. Birmingham Borough Council was the first to set up an asylum under the new act. The booklet...

What a terrible sad situation for parents of a stillborn child to be in. A stillborn child would not have been baptised. That still applies today. Sadly until thirty to forty years ago, many parents were never consulted over funeral arrangements for babies lost through stillbirth or as a...

Yes, you are right, the school is often described as in Harborne but the address quoted by the school is Somerset Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham but as you say right on the historic boundary between Warwickshire [Edgbaston] and Staffordshire [Harborne] which ran down Nursery Road and Metchley Lane...

Forgive me for posting this - it's indoors of course. We bought this cyclamen just before Christmas 2022 and it's been in flower ever since - not just the odd flower but a continuous stream of new buds. Currently has 13 flowers open and new buds continuing to shoot up but fewer leaves. Never...

Interesting history. Founded to afford orphans, and the children of the poor, clothing, maintenance, a good elementary education, and religious instruction according to the principles of the Church of England. Now a fee paying school at £4000+ per term! Gentle reminder. The school is in...