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Another tale from the tall hat brigade. Still at Kenyon Street. One of the beats I used to walk was around the Flats in Lodge Road. This particular tour of duty I was posted to another area and my old beat was taken on by another officer, who was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. It was...

Mike-g. There obviously was a second Hugo at Kenyon Street when I was there in about 1958. The man was classed as a First Police Reserve. These were officers who the force were obliged to employ due to their wartime military service. This was one man who should never have been so employed, if...

Jacqueline, Have no knowledge of a possible cemetery at todays Yardley Wood Church but on the web site for that church it states that in 1923 a extra nine acres of land was obtained for burials. So at that up that time and subsequently burials were taking place there.

Postied, I bought a coloured copy of that painting from the Central Library, at a very reasonable price, many,many years ago and it hangs framed above my fireplace now. Don't know if they still have copies to sell. Might be worth an enquiry, Fergie, if you want one. Will.

Memories of the KD at Snow Hill. My wife, to be, and I would meet on a lunchtime, for coffee when I was working a late shift in Hockley starting at 2p.m. For her part she worked for the Gas Board, Saltley, in their laboratories. One of the jobs she had was to take readings, from instruments...

I can remember the outside loo having to be painted in the stuff. My job, as a nipper, was to continually stir the bucket so the mixture would be thick enough to slap on the walls. Casting my mind back I can still recall how my little arms ached with that stirring. The water boiler, heated by...

Sylvia - Thanks for re-wiring these grey cells. Quite right - Ruby Murray. Sorry Astonian. Lost track with Kenyon Street though I was stationed there from 1958 to 1960. when I posted out I never went back and lost touch with all who were there. Even had I done so, with the evidence of not...

A little before my time Astonian.   I came on the scene, so to say, middle to late fifties. I vaguely recall a group of renegades who were committing prolific burglaries on the Coventry Road side of the City.   They were using copied keys to gain entrance. At the time there was a...

In the late fifties the layout within the precincts of the court were that the two courts facing one, as you entered, were used by lay magistrates generally. To the right of the entrance and partly out of sight was the court used by the Stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Milward, a paid magistrate of...

My father always referred to his sister as "Our Wench". If one looks up the definition of the word you would find that it is not a particularly 'enticing' word to use of one's own kith and kin on a whole.

Not only the chain drive, Cromwell, but is that a brake block I can see on the rear offside wheel? No wing mirrors and I bet that handle the driver has, needs many spins to get the front wheels to turn, if only slightly. I would guess anyone signalling it to stop to pick them up would need a...

Ger22van, No a trivet is normally a flat plate of iron of sufficient size to hold a kettle or pot on. At the side nearest the fire it had, what I can only describe as two prongs, that hooked onto the grill effect at the front of the fire that itself stopped, or was intended to stop, hot coals...

I recall the the trivet that hung from the bracket at the front of the fire and the old kettle that was blackened in one part, where it stood so close to the coals.   The singed and in parts burnt cloth, by which ones parents took it off, hanging on a hook in the fire surround. Will.

Sorry Astonian, In 1967 and that period either side, I was involved in matters in the surrounding counties and not solely to Brum, so it was one murder I missed. After forty years and an absence of some nigh on thirty years I am afraid I do not have the means of researching it. Perhaps someone...

I am possibly one of the group who simply enter the site daily and find that on a majority of occasions I have little to offer on particular subjects that are written here. I do however thoroughly enjoy a number of articles that Cromwell, by name, and others put, both in writing and by means of...

Janetell, My great grandmother, Jane Ellis born 1830 in Poddington, Bedsfordshitre (border to Northants) has her line going back to a William born 1798 in Irchester, Northants. Most of the line are found in Poddington. Twice the line inter married with my line over the years until my motley...

Mazbeth: No she is not Miss Knight and yes, she apologises for, you are perfectly correct in your recollection for it was Miss Knights and not Woods as she wrongly recalled. With the passage of thirty plus years and two other schools, one in Brum and the other here on the South Coast she cannot...

Mazbeth, You have managed to stir memories for my wife with your photographs. (Not the boozing I may add) She taught chemistry there in 65/66 and again from 74/76. She recalls Miss Hill the headmistress and Miss Woods Deputy Head who also taught Chemistry. Were these of your era? My wife left...

It was in one of these that I nearly met my end. My mother entrusted my two sisters with the task of pumping whilst yours truly was encapsulated within. Each left it to the other to do and as a result neither did it. I am told that I was turning a pretty pale blue on my mother's return. Over the...

I am advised that the police in Birmingham are looking for "Puppy walkers"  Persons applying need not be connected to the force.  Will be required to get the puppies used to people be it in the street, park or on the buses. The puppies will live in your home and whilst you will not be paid...