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Iain, are you a subscriber to Ancestry? If you are and you start building your tree, if there is anyone researching the same names, it will give you a link to their tree and you can then e-mail them, I have had some great results from this, my dads family mostly and we have found people dad...

I'm sure this pub has probably been mentioned but I can't see it, does anyone recall it and is it still standing/open? Dads dad used to drink there with who we now think was dads grandad (his dads father-in-law) that would have been in the 1950's Thanks, Sue

Hi Phyllida and welcome to the forum. I have some possible info for you, but have put it in an IM, as it could involve living people and we don't put those details on the open forum. Sue

Don't think you are going mad Neville, same as a few others though, I thought you only said it on the first day of months with an R in them, si if you are mad, so are a lot of us too! Sue

Laraine, there are 2 possible Emily Young deaths on Ancestry, one born 1870, died 1936, registered in Worcestershire (Yardley was in Worcs, but not sure until when) or Emily Young B 1876, died 1931 in Birmingham South, which Yardley was included in later, so you would need to see when Yardley...

Thanks Bewdley, I had found this Sarah too, whose age and occupation and location all match what details I have,so I had that thought too, did she marry young, then re-marry to John Harrison,will keep looking, od hope that dad has a flash of inspiration with a name, but like I said his mom...

I knew this was doing too well, the only Sarah Walsh I can find was born in 1858, so the age doesn't match on any of the later census returns, suppose this could just be a memory thing? or a rounding up/down by the enumerator, what does anyone else think? I also "lose" her in 1881, a year before...

Laraine, could this be the one, he is a little older than I think you are looking at, but is a possibility Name:YOUNG, John W Registration district: [?]Birmingham County:Warwickshire Year of registration:1946 Quarter of registration:Jan-Feb-Mar Age at death:80 Volume no:6D Page no:682 From FMP...

Linda, thats great thanks. That was the marriage I was looking at, and I found the Cannock 1891 entry, but missed the 1911 and the death. That only leaves me the 1901 for John to find, although its quite intriguing that although married, they never seem to have lived together at census time...

Hi All, would someone be able to look at a marriage for me please, think I have the correct one, but have limited info. My paternal great-grans married name was Harrison, first name Sarah, born in Wolverhampton about 1861. On 1911 census, she is listed as head, married 28 years, 11 children 6...

Sally, if she lived with her aunty, it may have been assumed that they had the same surname, that is what happened on hubbys side, his great grandmother was nowhere to be found with her family name after her parents died, but eventually found her with the help of forum members with the uncle she...

Hi Hack and welcome to the site. Do you have any indication of the years these people were around, would make it a bit easier to look for, there are quite a few Hacks around. Sue

Lyn, the picture of the shops says a lot doesn't it, with the area becoming so derelict, it makes you think how did it lose its bustle and trade, quite sad really! Sue

Eric, I think jeans idea of auctioning it on the site is a great one - it's a lovely picture, you can almost feel the snow underfoot, it looks like the lane that leads to my friends cottage in Foul End, which is close to where you did the original sketch. Sue

Good place to move it to, in the heart of the Jewellry Quarter, but I hope they manageto preserve the current building too! Sue

There is a thread somewhere on the site with more of these new/old merged photos, done by one of the forum members but i can't recall his name off the top of my head, tey are really good, I will try to find the thread and link it. Here it is - if I have done it correctly lol...

There are some great photos on the site, thanks for bringing it up Cath. And thanks to Bill Dargue for renewing the subscription. Sue

It is an interesting article though jennyann, I think the problems of mis-use of public toilets is world wide and there are fines here for urinating in public too, so I guess its better to have a building like yours at least there isn't the smell and embarassment for the public! Sue

Hi Orcaz welcome to the forum. There seem to be a lot of streets like this that turned face from what they used to be and I have no doubt there will be lots of theories about why this happened. I think some of it happened when a lot of the bigger houses were converted to flats, people didn't...

Re: Ley Hill Estae Northfield TV Documentary?? Pete, please keep firing them off, I really enjoy them!! Guess the flooding could be imminent again with this rain, the flood plains were under on the old A5 when I went to work yesterday morning,and mom and dad couldn't walk into town along the...