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My mom lived in Claybrook st 1916 to 1939 and she tod me she briefly joined the Salavation Army can anyone tell me which branch she would probably have joined.

Sometimes with soldiers.

Dad would say, thought thought he was following a wedding but was only following a muck cart. Or if we said she he would say who's she the cats mother.

Reading another post about polish made me think about how we clean glass. To clean the glass in the wood burner I use a wet cloth dipped in the ashes it removes the most stubborn scorch marks. Windows, newspapers dipped in vinegar is a great substitute for commercial cleaners.

Because she would probably have left at 13 it would have been 1896 so in between census and wouldn't have been old enough to be on an electoral role I will probaly never find where she was. It is so frustrating when info given by my mother has proved to be shall we say slightly incorrect. I...

Hi, I have all that it is the time from when she would have had to leave the home that eludes me.

Re: John Elliott Hi, I have looked at the information for the home and see that they only took girls from 3-13 so am wondering what happened to her when she left. would she have gone to a workhouse or perhaps a servant somewhere?

I was thinking of other things we made and think the best was at Christmas. We made paper chains and paper lanterns and most of the tree decorations. It was a time I loved as it meant using all the bits and pieces we had saved throughout the year. Yes the teddy's went down very well but don't...

I made these teddy bears out of polar fleece offcuts and donated them to the Women's Refuge. The stuffing came out of off cuts from sleeping bags, a firm here sells big bags of offcuts but you do have to spend some time pulling off the material but well worth if for very cheap stuffing.

Wow now that is inventive.

Yes pom poms are always popular with the kids. I have a daisy wheel which also kept them amused for hours. The rag dolls that I made are still played with along with all the many stuffed toys. At Christmas I always made one for their stocking and the year I thought they would have outgrown them...

Did anyone ever make paper bricks? I once got sucked into buying a brick maker, I shredded reams of newspaper mixed in wallpaper paste then put it into the brick maker to squeeze out the excess water, it made two measly small bricks which when dry didn't even burn well. Good recycling idea pity...

In my last tear at school we had to make a pair of shorts like skirts, well every time I took mine up to the needle work teacher she would tell me undo the tacking or stitching which meant by the end of term I had only finished 4 seams. I told her I would take it home and finish during the...

Although I was born in S Yardley accident of timing I lived in Wolvehampton and only remember visiting the Bull Ring Fish and Rag markets when Mom visited her family. I am researching her life in Birmingham for our family geaneology and have found his site such a wealth of information and it...

Yes sistersue when we opened the wardrobe door we found lots of clothes with M&S tags still on them never worn. Apparently whenever she had a little win at bingo she would go and treat herself I suppose she must have been saving them for a rainy day. I wonder how our children will see us in...

Yes we did the rugs using what I think we're called sugar sacks, heard the name badger but I knew it as a latch hook. Know how you would have felt about the mac as I always felt everyone was laughing at my curtain material dress's. I was fortunate to have an aunty who saved coupons for cadburys...

When we cleaned out my mothers small flat we found enough goods stored I think to survive for years. There were many box's of candles plus bits and pieces from renovations that had no use but years of thrift habit was still there. I have a big box of buttons that only ever get used once in...

We recycle most plastic containers for all sorts of things, milk bottles cut part of a side off gives a scoop or watering can. Although we have very few left overs what is gets put out for the birds, a chicken carcass last about 2hrs the all traces are gone. Currently knitting jumpers for...

My husbands father used to put tacks in the bottom of their shoes and his sister hated them. My dresses were mostly made from curtain material as a freind would give mom off cuts how I hated them as a I always felt you could tell what they were although I was probably one of the best dressed at...

Yes I did corking as well good to use up small pieces of wool. My dolls house was made of 4 cardboard boxes and chests of drawers from match boxes. All were covered with bits of wallpaper. Dolls were all knitted and I was able to knit before I went to school. Mom was very adept at doing...