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I bought the Book on Amazon and have just finished reading it. It wasn't a bed of roses livng in the 19th Century was it? I know one of my ancestors served a few months in prison, and I was dreading coming across him in the book. Thankfully he was nowhere to be seen, and I have always assumed he...

Willey I almost forgot, I think our time clocks are ticking at just about the same time My era was very myuch the late 40's early 50's. By '57 I was married.

I am sorry to hear that Yvonne and Graham are no longer with us. One of the Juggins boys had Polio, and we were all told to be very quiet when we passed the house. They lived on the corner of Woodall Road and The Broadway, and I can remember standing outside the house and looking up at the...

Susannah Wiggett married William Hunt 31 December 1837 at St Phillips church

My Gt Gt grandfather was baptised at Cannon Street Meeting house at the turn of the 19th Century. No marriages could take place then of course, as the church was not recognised by the Anglican church. By the time my Grandfather's children were born he had moved away from the Baptists and they...

Hi Willey, I wasn't a member of the Social Club, but it was my era and I probably knew most of the people who were members, I knew Yvonne Le Roux, Sheila and Betty Jones, and the Juggins boys. I also knew the Spaul boys who Grahame mentioned. There were lots of families in Wenlcok Road who...

This is the post I was answering. Sorry not to have replied earlier, and yes St Pauls is now on the Walsall Road in Great Barr. It is not too far from Handsworth, and in the early 19th Century Hamstead was in the Handsworth Parish.

David These Foolish Things with the Crazy Gang opened in London at The Paladium on 3rd October 1938. So the Theatre Royal programme must be around that date.

My dad used to tell is of the 'Chain Gangs' in Aston in the early years of the last century, I'll order the Peaky Blinders book from Amazon. Thanks for giving the post a nudge. Wendy, great for you to find so much on your gt. grandfather.

I think that Handsworth Cemetery hold records for other cemetery's. Wendy will know, she is our expert on the subjest.

I wonder if perhaps Thomas Gem might have been Christened at Hamstead Church. In the 19th Century the church was in the village rather than in Walsall Road on the border of Hamstead/Great Barr, and it is only a hop skipp and jump from St Mary's Handsworth. I was myself was Christened there, and...

I just love posts like this one, it is what the forum is all about. Well done again Wendy, and welcome Julian

There couldn't be a more fitting memorial to Peter. He wrote with authority on many topics, it will bring his posts to the forefront and we can all enjoy reading them once again. Thanks Jim.

This is a water colour I did from a post card of the Minories. They were between the two blocks of Lewis's under those majestic pillars

What lovely news. Do you still have your skates Keith?

Hi Mike, I'm catching up tonight. I can see you are in good hands. Just teck it easy. XX

Chris, in the 50's the Secretarial School was in the main Office block at the Witton end of the factory. Some of the inside dividing walls were like the stramit that builders used in the 70's. Some walls had a gap at the top, and you could always hear the tap tap tap of typewtiters when you...

I think I was there a bit before any of you babbies!!!!!!!!! We sang 'We are the Ovaltinies, Happy Girls and Boys.' The words were on the cinema screen and a ball hit the words as we sang to the accompanying music.

This is such a shock, Peter was a true gentleman. His postings on this Forum were always so well received, and I am not the only one among us who must have missed him recently on the occasions I log in. I had no idea that he was unwell, and I had thought I would send him a message but I didn't...

Love the photo's of those old coaches, we used to go on day trips to Blackpool on them and sometimes we would go with the ICI apprentices football team to one of their away matches. Thanks too for the bubble car photo, they really were something. My husbands cousin had one, I remember the...