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Another great Birmingham company. These may be of interest. Taken over by Samuel Groves in 1995 - another old established Birmingham company.

What a gem of a map! Wake Green & Sarehole are two of my interests and this is a brilliant addition to my notes - also the oldest detailed map I have seen of the area. Many thanks BrummieGeoff for posting it. It shows Wake Green Common stretching at that time down to what is now Wake Green Road...

Visited Sarehole Mill last Friday for the first time in decades. Very disappointed - paths in poor condition and "garden allotment" very overgrown. Cafe closed permanently but building just empty. Shop non existant and a general air of neglect about the whole site. And entrance fee too high -...

Birmingham Community Libraries have been neglected for decades. Staff cuts, resources cuts, buildings not maintained, restructurings [including the Constituency based disaster!]. I could go on. Libraries have long been a soft target for cuts although the politicians would never allow the use of...

Happy Birthday and thank you for all your hard work on the field! Roy

Update: Moseley Village station From Monday 15 September 2025 for up to 3 months, highway works at Moseley Village Rail Station will take place at the junction of St. Mary’s Row and Oxford Road, with temporary signals allowing only a single lane of traffic on St Mary’s Row, Moseley.

Another photo - Bull Street. Labelled about 1900.

Another picture of Northampton Street/B.J. Rowe & Sons - electro depositors. Another brilliant phot from Phyllis Nicklin archive.

I think the use of Southam Priory is just a courtesy title. The standard list of Monastic etc Properies in Glos. doesn't list anything in Southam. But doesn't explain use of "priory" in other properties? Following on from Dinger's post (20) I think Southam Priory/Pigeon House relates to the...

Great photos. My wife's family came from Southam, Warks. If you look at the chapel in the background it definitely doesn't look like any of the churches there so I had a look at Southam, Glos. and there is a medieval chapel there which has a simple belfry & which might be the church in the...

See also forum thread under "Did the Hound of the Baskervilles come from Brum ?" and yes a good idea to have a dedicated thread on Sir Arthur. Perhaps amalgamate threads?

Considering all the incidents over the years, common sense would be to close the ford. Or is that too simple? What do folks think?

A long time ago but..................... Another gem from EBay. I still find it amazing how much you can find on EBay which helps local research. What do you think?

Whoops!! Apols only just read this. It was a facinating talk by Jim Andrew [ex Science Museum}. Not at all what I expected and explained in detail how the water supply to the mill was arranged and the various leats etc. Much more interesting than it sounds and a very different approach. That...

I know it's a long time ago but............................. Just doing some research on the shops in Moseley Village: In the 1900 Kellys Directory under "Moseley Village" [ie St Marys Row] Avondale Bread Co. is listed next to the Bulls Head. Perhaps it was a branch shop from info above...

Here's another similar postcard from EBay. Postally used in 1922 but perhaps looks earlier. A lot of dealers on EBay are overprinting the EBay image to stop folks copying them. Understandable but does it work?

This is the site of the former Wacadems dairy [see thread] in Woodbridge Road, Moseley. Looks like new build? You can see three plaques on the frontage. Fairly unusual for new residential property? Here they are:

There is a very interesting account of the Beadle at St Marys Church, Moseley at: https://api2.churchdesk.com/files/26a572f5-8061-4773-8266-324487294dee/view Includes illus of beadle & staffs. Coat said to be blue with red collar & brass buttons.

This is another advert for Wm Suckling & Sons. similar to that in post 8 above. How odd that a well known silversmith made auto parts etc during WW1. and intended to continue after the war...... This is AI note from Google: During World War I, William Suckling & Sons, a Birmingham-based...

If you want to look up your local branch, perhaps it's worth mentioning this web site again: https://www.bmbbranches.org.uk/bmb-branches_065.htm Great site to look up your local branch. Here some phots of the Moseley branch: Official opening 1927 after reconstruction. Interior 1927