Search results

Its definitely there somewhere Lyn, I just wish that I could have been a bit more precise. Anyway as I say the best of luck.

Hello Lyn. I have not been to the Library for at least two years or more, I used to do some Family History research but I cannot really get about these days, we had a good run around the city centre on our mobility scooters last year ( did not see any other mobility scooter users in the town.)...

Now I will go off thread and hope I am forgiven. I hated the starlings and their noise, I hated the Church bells ringing on a Sunday. There must be hundreds of things I loved about Brum and will never forget.

1904 Kelly's ( I have to type this out ) 217 Bromwich Thomas ( Lamp and Oil Dealer ) 232 Penry Joseph ( Coal Dealer ) HERE IS WINDSOR STREET 235 Reynolds Harry ( Beer Retailer ) 236 Brown Harry ( Shopkeeper ) (The next Street along is Adam Street ) This...

1904 Kelly's Smith Edwin, brass fouudr here is Holt st Derrington & Sons, liinj This Should Read As Lime Merchants. merchants 15 Hill Charles, beer retailer here is Dartmouth st 16 Wilcox Edwin, grocer Tabes Limited KingGeorge,coal merchnt. (Heneage Street wharf; 47 Dyde Thomas, greengrocer...

I do wish that I had kept a reference to the deaths that I had found in the Birmingham Reference Library at the time. It could be that it was read in Coroner's Reports and that my own mental picture was of a smelting company in Heneage Street close to Windsor Street corner. The photograph is...

With reference to tragic deaths I remember reading of a story that happened at the foundry in Heneage Street next to the " Rising Sun " pub. Men were working at the foundry when for some reason one of them fell into the furnace and they said that his fellow workmate was so overcome with shock...

This is the cover and as you see each Photograph is a post card.

I am so very pleased that those photographs have created some interest. Any photograph that is old brings the past back to life again. It makes me wonder wether they ever used the term " Barbed Wire " as it says " Bearded Iron Wires " on Pic 7. I wonder if it was a french term ? Yes David I...

I think this is the lot.

Not many more.

!4 more left.

17 more to go.

Hope its OK to post these. Argonne - Guerre This seems to be across the bay opposite St Tropez.

Great Photographs Phil. It would be great to take steps back in time and walk into their first shop to look around.

DEK, Its probably 1950's and it is falling apart. As far as I am aware those A -Z 's did not have any date printed on them.

Had another look, the date put me off so I hope this is what you are looking for.

BLEW STREET in 1833 has beat me, I am sorry to say.

Glamorgan sausage now I have taken a liking to them, but can you buy them over the counter ??

My hand is not too steady these days. See what you can make of it, I shall try again if you wish me to.