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So I come to the end of my meagre knowledge of the Mountford 's Dining rooms let alone the family. I have no certain knowledge but have been again led to believe that Mrs. Mountford died in the 1930's. The connection between my aunt and Mrs. Mountford, I am told by my elder and more learned...

Jennyann I was a 'flash' big beggar in those days (think I have changed) Would stand at the top of the steps of the Tudor, Sobranie in full display, eyeing up a possible young lady who would return my interest. If a twosome one was on a loser unless you had a mate with you. Technique was to get...

Jennyann, You have just rung a bell in this cranium. In my youth I would dress in a black suit, black shirt and silver slim jim tie and my obligatory Tony Curtis D.A. and go, on a Saturday evening, to the local bug hutch - The Tudor Cinema at Billesley. To finish the effect would shell out and...

All the cross postings shows we have a interest here for which I am grateful. Have taken a copy of your latest, Cromwell, simply for my knowledge alone. Expect at this rate we could cross post again. Do enjoy a mystery but it would be nice to solve this.

Cromwell, Thanks for the p.m. very interesting but I am left a little baffled by Mrs. Mounford's christian name. I have no written account of her christian name from my aunt and am taking it to be so from the 1881 census where it shows her as 'Annie' together with her hubby William at 9, Philip...

Well did anyone do it this morning? My wife came out with this one, this morning, that I have never heard before. It was told by her Brummie grandmother, who has been dead these past sixty years, to her mother. On Good Friday never throw any water away before midday. To do so is throwing out...

Cromwell, You have brought this story to life again. Please my thanks firstly for your enquiry and secondly please extend my thanks to Carl for his important input. I did not realise, obviously, how large a concern she finally ran although from the Philip Street place it had an affluent look...

I digress but I blame Sakura. When visiting China we had a cottage loaf with the top and its innards removed and filled with mushroom soup. The lid was then repalced on top of it. Oh I can still taste it. Now if the Chinese can do that to the simple cottage loaf what chance have we to...

Rod, An interesting theory and one can but surmise that Hannah at 103, High Street and 'my' line are connected, for it seems a strange coincidence that they may be living back to back to each other. The one photo(garden photo as I referred to it) taken at the rear of the shop shows, as much as...

Sakura, There is no ancestry with any of my lines. It was a case of employer and employee between Mountford and my aunt. It was obviously a close friendship when one considers the unpublished photographs I have of a private moment in the garden at the rear of the shop and the holiday snap at...

Just took a gander at the Oxford Disctionary Crumpet: Soft flat yeasty 'cake' toasted or buttered. Muffin: Light flat round spongy 'cake' eaten toasted or buttered. Also makes reference to that muffin, Jenny Ann referred to in the States. Now that flat, hole infested, round item I love to put...

Rod, This particular line, William and Annie Mountford, are listed in the 1881 census as being at Philip Street. I do know, via the 1841 census, that the Mountfords were a Birmingham family for William's parents were a Thomas (23)a Journey Chandler and Mary Ann (23) were living 4, New...

Mountfords Eating Houses Anticipate no one has heard of Mountford's Dining Rooms which were situated at 9, Philip Street. Am told they were near to Worcester Street but that is open to conjecture. I only became aware of the place due to three photographs I had off my late aunt. Her connection...

Beryl M. You could be right about the fashion statement but it appears to me that he has put a hole in his tie by inserting it into the knot.? If only it had been handed down to my line. Still that can be said about numerous things. Will.

Have finally transcribed the photographs from my late aunt's album. The following photo intrigues me for I have never seen a tie pin fastened in the knot of a man's tie. Is it a tie pin? or is it a identification of belonging to some organisation?. On magnification you will see it is in the...

My aunt died in 1976 and left me a Victorian Photograph album. In the cover is handwritten the following: The purist feeling of the heart This little book will move For in it's pages you will find The faces you have loved. The loved and loving all are here Just as they lived they look Lifes...

I was a member as a lad of the ATC and attended 492 Sqaudron huts situated on the Stratford Road opposite Hall Green Railway Station. Had a weeks summer holiday (Training week) at RAF Swinderby. Lincolnshire. They flew two engined 'Varsity' aircraft from there, on crew training exercises...

Blow me they keep fiddling don't they. If it ain't broken why change it.? Touch of a button eh! Little wonder there are reports of today's people becoming obese. Still, I wonder if the kids still climb the chains? Will.

The old 'pub' was still there in the early fifties when I regularly rode my bike up and down the hills at the Acker Docks down the road from it. It was as I recall run by two elder women and I thought it was more like an outdoor than a proper pub but then, I was a whipper snapper, and not at...

We had one of those down our end of the land. It was a little larger than that version shown. They closed it, refurbished and opened it as a cafe. See all things have their uses. Dread to think of what the tea tastes like. Will.