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Canadian Hospital I've just been looking through all the books (online) at Central Library...this one may be of interest to some people "Canadian General Hospital by Ralph Kimmerley & Earl Hamm"...can be found on the 6th floor, cannot be loaned out, shelf location is LF75.8KIM

Nice one Emerson, I'm glad to hear someone else cried when they demolished Hams Hall. I looked at those towers all my life from my bedroom window, even when I first got married I could still see the towers. What a scoop to have one of the model towers....:) Regards

This is a good link, especially for the George Elliott fans, over 7,000 photos of Coventry and surrounding areas, have added to my favorites for a latter date www.picturesofcoventry.co.uk Enjoy :)

Fernwood replies here Hi Cromwell, where you been, we've missed ya....you can delete this when you've read it...love the photo :P :P

Great photos, you could spend hours going through all the photos etc of Birmingham :)

Especially for the air forces www.littlefriends.co.uk

Old Birmingham UK photo Gallery by Keith Berry....a fantastic site of many photos of Birmingham, Handsworth, Aston etc...enjoy, but be patient getting onto site, just keeping pressing the link :) www.pbase.com/beppuu/old_bham&page between old and bham should be_ so you will probably have...

Brilliant Graham, my grandad used to go "hop picking" to make some extra money......memories ;)

Jim I'll give you 9.00, my pound key don't work!!!

This is a good link for postcard views, Birmingham, Stratford, Warwick and Leamington www.oldstratforduponavon.com/birmingham Enjoy browsing

Hi Alf, the wording is "A sound mind in a sound body" with a wreath of laurel leaves around it. Sorry it took so long to reply....my brain is not in synch with my postings....Thankyou :)

So sorry postied and Hilary, RIP Buster :) Just think his in animal heaven now, being welcomed by all our pets that we have lost, he will be well looked after up there.

Hi Alf, the name on the medals are E.ASTON or its EASTON, my eyes are going, it looks as though there is a dot between the E and Aston. Thanks for your help

can anyone tell me where I could find information about what teams played in "The Football Chall. Sheild" in 1905, 1906, 1907. I have aquired 3 medals, two of them being the winners of this sheild and one the runners up. They were all awarded to the same person. On the other side of the medals...

Hi Di, same here, thanks for the help :) :)

Thanks momma p, hubby and I will take a trip up there to have a look, I was so gobsmacked when the address of the mills appeared on his original birth certificate, very intriguing. Once again thankyou :)

I'm back, delay was due to circumstances beyond my control....internet provider!!!! Anyway whilst I've been away it gave me an oppurtunity to transfer alot of my hand written research onto my laptop, and even though I say so myself my reaerch is coming along lovely. I notice from some of the...

Just going of thread a tad, I see you have William Dudly Smith listed at Hamstead Mill in 1891, could you possibly tell me his age, occupation and where born. A big thankyou x :)

The book I have is called "Highcroft: from workhouse to modern mental health service" by Mike Hinson on behalf of Highcroft History Group. There is no reference in the book to where all documents went after it was closed, but the book makes interesting reading. He gets some of his material from...

Mary Ann Evans 1819-1880, novelist known by her pseudonym George Eliot, was born at Arbury Farm, 2 miles southwest of Nuneaton. She used the area as a backdrop in her work, and a statue of her stands in the centre of Nuneaton. In her "Scenes of Clerical Life" (1857) Nuneaton is "Milby" and the...