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I usually pop on the site daily to check "What's new" Paul. It is a good way to check for new posts. That is probably a case of me (as a relatively new member) trying to teach a long standing member, like yourself how to suck eggs ;), but I find it's a good way of getting involved and there is...

Chocolates are always a favourite, so that has a very good chance. How about tea though? Or perhaps their tuck boxes?

Well found indeed! Just the place for Christmas Shopping 104 years ago (1 & 2 Below), their cheese cellar (3), inside the store in 1920 (4), their café (5), the cooked meat counter c.1920 (6) & a 1913 advert (7).

I think so. Building was completed in 1937 and below is another picture of the church:

The Ivy House?

We could well have had some telephone conversations back then, I worked at Beacon Hill at the same time.. :)

The infamous Oswald Mosley, ran for Labour against Neville Chamberlain in the 1924 General Election in Birmingham Ladywood, losing by just 77 votes, following a recount (1 & 2 below). In 1926 he became MP for Smethwick, winning the 1926 by-election (3 - shows him campaigning on 18/12/26): 1...

I did the count a few times at Slade Road School in the 70s (including the 1979 General Election). You had to be very quick and very accurate. It got a little annoying when party officials appeared over your shoulder, every few minutes to check what you were up to (I was counting, wasn't it...

As the census records people who were living/staying at an address on the census day itself, it may have been Max was elsewhere on the census day, if he was not recorded. Sorry, if I'm stating the obvious.

Have a splendid day Eric!

An old postcard of the building and a close up of the weather vain below:

Great thread this. It takes me right back. The Windsor, Parisian and Parasol were very often our Saturday night crawl. I had not known that it was previously a Post & Mail building, or had perhaps forgotten (too many Saturday nights maybe ;)).

He looks very happy there and he has a winning smile. He would be 76 now. Hopefully his family did find a home quickly and has had a great life to date. It would be nice to know....

I always think of the old Dog's Home , when I think of New Canal Street. We got three dogs from there, the last two were Labradors. I must admit I would have liked to have taken them all, it was so hard to choose just one of them. Great dogs and it was our luck to give them a good home and they...

I see that following on from #37 above the local authority have allowed the can to be kicked further down the road. The public enquiry to decide whether the "owners" should rebuild the pub, has been postponed from August 2024 to the spring of 2025 at the request of the "owners" who had been...

Happy Fathers Days in the past and in the present.

My wife and a friend who had heard it had re-opened, found the main art gallery was still closed yesterday (they really should have checked first). Nice to see something is starting to be put back on display at long last, but £11 with no senior concessions, does seem a bit steep and it will...