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I was still at school, so probably about 1966 when I was 15. I worked Saturday at C&A in the city centre and got 17s 6d. Prior to that I used to work 8 hours a week at a local grocery shop and got 1s per hour. If I was lucky, when delivering groceries, I might have had a 6d tip off some...

My uncle Frank was born in Manchester in 1912. His father, also Frank, was born in Aston in 1887. He is shown on the 1901 census as living in Aston, but in 1911 is living in Manchester. He married in Manchester too. At this time he was a Typewriter merchant. His father was Arthur, born...

Does your Hadley family have any connections to Manchester or typewriters/stationary?

Then the forth picture of St Saviours Church. That was opposite where I lived in Ash Road. We used to go through a gap in the iron fencing to get into the church yard. The church bordered St. Saviours Rd, Ash Road and Hall Road. Hall was a great hill and I used to roller skate down there...

Your first picture was my old Junior School - Adderley Road. I lived in Ash Road.

I have just seen the photo a the very beginning of this and as I have not read through all the posts am not sure that the query by Stitcher has been answered. They seem to think that the photo is of The Dolphin in Warwick Road. Well if no one else has answered I can tell you it is the original...

Used to go to The Clock regularly with friends. We made up a darts team and used to play almost every Friday night. Because we had three cars stolen from various locations we used to take the rotor arm out of our car when we left it anywhere. I remember one night trying to put the rotor arm...

I worked in the next building to Barlow's stationary shop for five years 1975 - 1980. I am sure it was number 120 Edmund Street. The facades of the buildings are still the same but the insides have been demolished and rebuilt into one building. Mr & Mrs Shutts used to live in a flat at the...

KGmoore - I used to be able to find streets in the 1881 census but don't seem to have the option on Ancestry anymore. If you use the same programme can you tell me how to search on streets please?

I did a search for Penn St. Ind. School on the web and came across a very interesting page. However no mention of lists of pupils except it does mention that Birmingham Archives hold the admission and discharge registers. Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service is located in the library in...

You may be interested to know that there are a couple of photographs of Jess Ensor on the site I use. From someone else's tree it looks like Charles wife (Jess's mother) was Ada Day born in 1874. It also shows that Jess had three brothers and two sisters. Charles Henry, Albert, Ada, Ernest...

There is a J Ensor - Coldstream Guards who served in South Africa 1899 - 1902 (Second Boer War) Reg. No. 1881

Can you giver any more info? Roughly a birth date for Jess - was this his name or was it Jesse? Any idea's when he served? There are a lot of J Ensor's on my system in the Army Lists, Medal Rolls etc. Any info. would be helpful.

Always known it as the Big Top (where the Co-op used to be). I remember the entrance to the co-op on the left (where they sold records) and one of the stores was facing at the end. I have probably got it all wrong though, it was a long time ago!! Wasn't there two entrances to the Big Top...

The Army and Navy stores was in the Big Top arcade when I used to shop there (60's) There was also Millets in the same area. Can't remember which was which though. But I do remember buying the regulation black plastic mac from there. Maybe someone will put me right if I am wrong!

My brother went to Farm Park Infants School (briefly, then we moved house)and my dad worked at the BSA in Montgomery Street. My mom used to know the wife of the park-keeper of Farm Park but I cannot remember her name.

Marriage 1892 HORE Oliver to Elizabeth Hubble. Birmingham Sept qtr. 6d 97 May not be the correct one but with a surname like Hoare, you will have to look at various ways of spelling.

When did your gg grandparents die? Did they live in Birmingham most of their lives (do you think they married in Birmingham? As I cannot find a marriage on FreeBMD it could be that they married before 1837.

That should be 1963

I don't have a scanner but if you can hold on for a while I am more than happy to type the pages out for you. I have Kelly's 1953, 1063 and 68-69.