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I'm making faggots for tea tonight!! My recipe is like Rod's only I use either belly draft port od streaky bacon for the pork fat - it gives same results!! My boy's love this meal in wintertime!!!

Jake, A very sad time for all who knew Sam - my best wishes to all

What a blast from my past this thread is I can remember the Gospel Oak, Moonraker, Robin Hood,the 3 magpies, the Dolphin in Acocks Green. I can also remember a working mens club type of place on Langley Hall Road - it backed onto the golf course / a brook where there used to be some sort of...

We are so lucky today to have all that we have!! Cromwell do you have any idea when those photo's of the ladies were taken roughly? They look so sad - I bet we couldn't imagine being in places like that these days!! I read lots about some of the Irish workhouses etc.. the famine in Ireland...

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I can remember my mum and Grandmother taking us to the park on Saturday afternoons (my gran lived on Witton Road) - I can vaguely remember a cafe either in the Aston Hall or Near there and we'd stand on some terrace and could see the match and hear the crowds - cause we'd get ice creams while...

Frantic I totally agree I would pay more for a quality pie or bakery product any day of the week - patries and breads have become a dying craft and one I dearly miss - all this steam baked bread and supermarket stuff isn't like a proper "old fashioned" bakery at all - the quality and taste isn't...

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Hiya Peter & Rod, I found that site fascinating - cause someone had already posted on here about a Nanette Stocker who was a tiny lad who toured with some acts etc..  (Stocker is one of the names I am researching in my family tree) BUT then I also came across a family story where a couple...

I recently came across this site and found some interesting background material about showmen etc.. - I originally thought one of my family were a gypsy - seems not now - looks more like they married into a show family and travelled with their family etc.. doing shows - it may be useful to some...

Aston how sad for your grandparents losing their home like this - I am sure like many many others!! My Grandparents and parents have spoken about the war years with stories similar to your own etc.. But to be honest these pictures speak so much louder than any stories can tell us!! Through...

Re: Is anybody here researchinh a Hill Family ?? The Bookies people? Sylvia Thank you - I shall keep a note of that - I had never heard of it and tried to search it on here and it didn't seem anyone had mentioned the road or name of family etc.. So I thought I'd ask!! Looks like I have my...

Hiya, I just stumbled over some information in my family tree - seems like my family links with the HILL family of the horse breeding, coach building, Turf Accountants family. Seems my Gt Aunt Lavinia Knight married a William Hill in 1896 in Nuneaton. I am wondering if there is anyone here...

Hiya Isobel, The Laura I have in my Tree is - Laura May Williams - she married Albert Alexander Stocker B'ham North RD 2nd qtr 1926. Laura was born 3rd May 1903. I am afraid I don't know much more than this at the moment and the "May" was taken from probate papers - not a birth certificate -...

I stumbled over these sites recently while researching some of my ancestors who went to India and other places abroad etc.. https://www.fibis.org/ https://www.movinghere.org.uk/default.htm https://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3903 Some of my relatives went to places like India and...

Di - Yes I did write and ask the gentleman who's photo's they were if I was allowed to download a copy for my family scrap book etc.. He wrote back saying I could so I am delighted as she is lovely isn't she? The man very kindly informed me where I'd find other photos and advertising materials...

From the link First posted here I actually looked through and found a photo of one of my ancesters on there - Doris Stocker she was an edwardiian actress - Thank you - it's lovely to be able to put a face to the name!! :) https://www.users.waitrose.com/~victorianphoto/theatre2/index.htm

Ernie - I haven't seen a George Knight amongst my people yet - there isn't any Selina's either - I am working on these people still and have made a note of you looking for these names - if I spot anything I shall come back and let you know - cause my tree stuff is changing fast now as I just...

Whoops - sorry for the "dumb" question there - "I'm a still a babbi" so I really don't know these things!! :-[ It's just lots of my family have worked at tubes over the years on different jobs etc.. but I'd seen "wire drawer" as an occupation on census forms for ancestors - just wondered how...

I've got someone in my family history who did this job as "wire drawer" - glad I read what it meant. Thank you to those who replied here. Does anyone know by any chance where these people would have worked to do this sort of job? I am just curious as to what sort of place this may have been and...