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Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Another member has messaged me to say that he has a suitable drive so, fingers crossed, I should be OK thanks once again to this brilliant forum. Once I've sorted myself out I shall look at the info supplied above with regard to Lord Somery and...

I wondered if it was the same family mw)njm - any ideas how I can get the pictures off the floppy?

Good Morning, I have a disc but no computer to open it on! A long time ago I interviewed a lady for the church magazine who was a nursery nurse at the Cottage Homes. She volunteered to be evacuated during WW2 to Wales. At first they were housed at a Youth Hostel at Arthog / Dolgellau but Lord...

Well, here's a photo of the other (obverse/reverse) side of the token. Not that it helps much though. It's a poor image and the token is quite worn but it was made in Birmingham. The centre you can read as 3d and as far as we can make out the wording says made by ???? Die Sinkers, Something...

Thanks for filling in some information on this pub Mike. I know that the powers that be decided to reduce the numbers of public houses in Birmingham at some point but I'm not actually sure how the consolidation scheme affected them. Or am I getting confused with the time they closed pubs and...

Thanks for moving my post - didn't think it came under Birmingham Breweries.

Thank you both. The Kings Arms then - pretty obvious when you think about it. Which I didn't!

The attached image is a 'find' from a Leicestershire field. I don't seem to have taken a photo of the other side for some reason but will ask for one. There's no pub name on it but it does say 'Inn' and High Street. It also gives the name Henry Oliver and West Bromwich. I tried 'The Lion and...

The finding of gold coins on an other thread prompted me to post these pictures. My cousin is a deterctorist and found this token in a field in Leicestershire. Unfortunately its not gold!

Hi Emo, there is a long photo from 1961 earlier on this thread as you probably know. I'm attaching a section of this and I'm on the back but one row, third from the left. I had very blond (natural) hair and look bald! I expect you're on the long photo too as you were still there in summer1961.

A very interesting photo - all those supervisors checking that the operators were doing their jobs properly. I was wondering what the men were doing and the ladies in the middle of the room seated at the desks. Telegrams? Message services? Perhaps we'll never know.

Sorry meant to include the following: A boot and shoe clicker is the person who cuts the uppers for boots or shoes from a skin of leather or piece of man-made material (usually from a bulk roll). This includes all components of the upper, including linings, facings, stiffeners, reinforcements...

Very interesting report Viv. My Gt Aunt Augusta was a boot 'clicker' in Birmingham around the turn of the 20th century.

Thank you so much Janice - that photo is just what I've been looking for. I didn't think it was on the photo of the corner posted earlier as I thought that was the area that my ancestor had a house. However, I've been wrong before! Well done! Penny

Hi Viv, I've been looking for a picture of the warehouse for years so thank you! I know it was on a corner, possibly of Water Street, as they would have used the canals I would think for transporting goods. If I remember correctly it was there until the 1940's so should appear on fairly recent...

This is for all people of a certain age - Meet The Huggetts is on BBC Sounds 4x at the moment. Haven't had time to listen to it as I've been listening to Paul Temple. I'm pretty sure it was Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison in the main parts.

Crumbs Viv! I didn't realise that oat milk was going then - if only for horses. I thought it was something fairly modern. Just goes to show that there's nothing new ( I find it a bit thick in tea but OK on cereals - a bit like sterra). Wonder what the horses made of it? Where was No. 25 do you...

Thanks Janice, that really puts a date on the move and photo. Wonderful. RRJ. That's absolutely fine by me but I don't know who it belongs to. Suspect it's the council but as I've fallen out with them at the moment I really don't care!

Thank you RRJ. I thought the 'cottage' in the background looked remarkably like Wilmot House and you have confirmed it. I have been researching the family who I think built it, the Edials.

Hi Janice, Thanks for your input. I believe these photos were taken in the early 60's or even late 50's. I've got an idea that they were to do with the redevelopment of the area and were photocopies (possibly under-the-counter) from some council office. Penny