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A Very Happy Birthday Eric. We were only talking about you with friends yesterday as we've just decorated our dining room and were re-hanging all the lovely pictures you'd painted for us over the years. Thank you for all the pleasure you've given us and have a really good day. Graham & Penny xx

Hi Again Ornette, I can't think what AH and LH stand for at the moment- there seem to be a lot of AH's - but my guess for EC is Emmanuel College (the college owned much land in Sutton and Emmanuel Church in Wylde Green is built on EC land). VSL I would think is land belonging to Vesey School. I...

Ornette, from what I was told yesterday Miss Bracken lived in a least two homes on the High Street. It was a little chaotic yesterday as there was so much to get through and we're not meeting for some weeks. I've made a note and if anything else comes to light I'll keep you posted. Shirley...

Exactly Lyn. I can get on the train and then the tram which sounds easy but with creaking limbs and very little get-up-and-go I view the prospect with dismay. I think we're going to try to go to the Wolfson Centre once a month but of course that depends on how things are at home. Some of...

Ornette, as promised I went to the library this afternoon and asked the question. JH Hill was a former member of the group some years ago. The inn was called The White Hart rather than The Hart. It wasn't exactly on the site of the Royal but just a little further up. Probably approximately where...

Hi Ornette, Thank you for posting the map. It may have been that the Hart Inn information wasn't available when Roger wrote about The Royal. Lots of things have come to light about Sutton and I expect more will be discovered in the future. I'm going to the Sutton Coldfield Local History...

Well researched Viv.

Yes, I was totally confused as I knew I'd posted something about this painting! Thought it was another marble gone... Britain's Lost Masterpieces featured a painting of Joseph Wright of Derby showing an Italian Bridge. It was in a style very different to the paintings that we usually know. It...

Hi Viv, do you know anything about the artist. The only Joseph Wright I've come across so far is Joseph Wright of Derby. Also, does anyone have a map of the original extent of Aston Park. I remember being surprised that it was so much larger than it is now and stretched as far as Walsall Road.

Very interesting video Pedro. Lots of information and I shall be listening to it again. Thank you.

That would make it in Witton wouldn't it? I was thinking it was further out but looking at your photo I don't think so now. On the map I'm looking at https://sclhrg.org.uk/map-articles/2673-victorian-ordnance-survey-maps.html from 1890 on the Sutton Local History site it still looks to be...

Hi Warren, I'm really sorry that I won't be there. Graham is finding things a little difficult at the moment. I've been rather 'out of the loop' lately so could you remind me where I can send a donation please? Many thanks, Penny

Hi Pedro, I think this must be from somewhere over by the Perry Barr/Handsworth/West Bromwich direction. Sorry to be vague! The usual view of the church is with the spire towards the left so if it is to the right, as in the painting and nearer the artist than the hall this would give the...

Graham's cousins, Margaret and Eileen, sadly no longer with us, produced a wonderful family tree etc. over 30 years ago when it was a much harder task to discover any family history. Graham knew Uncle Bill (William Jabez) and Margaret, above, was Bill's daughter. Bill's sister was Nellie...

Thanks Lyn. The William Jabez Maybury is William's brother (and Graham's Gt Uncle) which is what makes me think that William 1887 had died and there is an entry for this death. However, we'd like to find his baptism just to be sure. The William you found on Ancestry fits with everything else but...

Thank you both for the above information. Lyn, you're definitely right that this couldn't be my William Maybury on the memorial. I get so confused with all the Maybury's having the same name, there's at least one in every generation. I think he possibly died aged 2 but there is a child with...

I'm looking for William Maybury b. 1887 in Birmingham. I haven't been able to find any information about him but there are two newspaper cuttings in the Birmingham Gazette/Birmingham Gazette and Express for a man with the same name. I'd be very grateful if someone who has access to the...

What a generous offer Brumbirder! I'd very much like to have a copy of your PDF please to help with our Heritage Day in September. In line with advice on this forum, I will send you my email address via Private Message. Many thanks.

P.S. to my last post - apparently Thomas the Tank Engine is 80 this year so he will get a mention too!

Thank you Pedro, as usual you've come to my aid. I could read Ballyboy but couldn't fathom out the others. Penny