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Kat, They should be purchased and approved by Handsworth Cemetery who are responsible for WL Cemetery, sadly some people put their own crude markers on, and others try to "Pretty up" graves making them a personal shrine to only one of the several hundred in there- which is not allowed and does...

Hi Kat, The Friends work was enjoyable and just the transition I needed from Full time work to Retirement, however there was a lot of work - physical as well as emails, finding people graves, marking them, research, taking photo's, keeping a fb page, helping sort out finance, meetings with...

Hi Kat, I should be at the meet up in Feb, but no longer have the time to put in as many hours as I did on KH & WL - - it was a 70hrs thankless week, which had to cease as I lost my Mother in Law, Father, Brother & now care for an relative with Dementia due to Alzheimer's. At last, though I am...

Hi Kat, Following an initiative with the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy, who computerised the Key Hill & Warstone Records, Birmingham City Council succeeded in computerising all their Cemetery records making searching for ancestors much easier -...

Cheers Mike - Can now see 79 where i lived as a child - great map!

Waterloo St comes off at right angles opposite the passage way alongside The Council House and turns 90 degrees down to the Churchyard - Didn't notice any street signage changes when up there last week

Not quite the flat, but nearby - My dad had his hair cut - and dragged me to have mine done at a Barbers called Jack Sabin. certain he was on Icknield St, before Key Hill Cemetery (Where the petrol station is now??), which was facing The Flat. Anyone recall him ??

At my local corner shop - I just say - my usual 4 sterra, please

Definitely Rail House - worked there early mid 1970's and again early mid 1990's - was on the corner of Broad St/Gas St. Presumably the pic was taken from Cumberland House corner of Broad St/Granville St ?

Looks like grave numbers to me Area 28 - Grave 28268 & area 23 Grave 23251 Area 23 is just inside the Ridgeway entrance - Turn left area on right. Area 28 is Ridgeway side of Toilet block near chapel. There may well be no Headstones. If there are any in the plot - they usually have the Number...

All being well - I'll be there. Got a book ready for the raffle - one of Ron 'Smudge' Smith's

See post 861 above - Registered were photographed and computerised by the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - bmsgh.org

It was a small world in those days, Lyn.......................................

They were ours Drs as well.! We were in Little King St until April 1966

Sadly the Council will say that the monies raised by the sale will be "for the benefit of the public". Fingers crossed - but do not hold your breath!

Nice map - Key Hill House has gone by then, and replaced with the buildings we see today in Key Hill Drive - (Used to be a private drive to a Large house previously) - sold off, demolished and all those houses built in place.

Picture earlier on thread of flat stone over Vault by Leslam, also a sketch of where it is. These Vaults were reopened after Birmingham City Council took over the Cemetery and than "Topped up" mostly with the Councils burials of Still born children, and the elderly impoverished dying in hospital...

Vault K20 Warstone Lane in 1950