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Goodness Topsy, the joys of summer are not very evident here are they?

Thanks so much Lynn for posting all these lovely photos, I love black and white pics too! Cheers Barb

Thank you very much for the lovely images of St Martin, also to pollypops for the timeline info, good to know! Thanks!

I love this one Astoness, so much atmosphere! Thank you for sharing! I also have many family members who were Christened, married or buried in St Martins from the 1820s on.

Good one Bernie, it says it all!

It just about says everything, very moving. Thanks for sharing Sue I just Googled this poem and would you believe it was written in 1996 by Jodie Johnson aged 11! WOW!

Thanks for the info, I have some steel penmakers in my family. The section on the manufacturing has a few good illustrations showing the stages in making and the girls and women working at the benches. Worth a look!

Love this ad! Poor snail it would certainly been well stamped! Quite clever!

Great Ad! Nothing like blowing your own trumpet! LOL

Thank you for that! I don't think mine are the same Turners, I'm sure if their factory was such a large concern my Dad or his brother would have mentioned it. Back to the drawing board! ;o)

Thanks Mike, like I said it's a long shot, this factory sounds like a big place. My Great Uncles were Joseph William (1890) and George Fredrick (1896), just for the record! Interesting thread anyway!

I don't suppose anyone knows the names of the Turner Brothers, it's a long shot but my Great Uncles had a toolmaking factory in Cooksey Rd Small Heath in the 1920s. We've never been able to find anything out about it or them. My cousin's late Dad remembered taking their dinners round to them as...

Fantastic work! I'm still amazed after years of doing this, just how much we can find out about our families. For me it brings them so much closer.

My goodness I never knew about that. Great to hear things have improved over the years - in that respect at least! I hope you can wear your poppy safely -it's wonderful that we are all so proud to wear them!

I was thinking the same, they're fine photos! Good luck with finding out more about them. I think most of us lament that the people who could answer our questions are no longer with us.

Thank you for letting us know Carolina, we should all be able to display our pride and respect to our troops - past and present! Well done to this young lass to act on her convictions! Lest We Forget

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone had a photo of Glovers Rd - before re-development. My Great Grandparents lived at no 55. I have a hazey memory ( I would have been about 8) when on a trip to Brum my Dad stopped the car outside this house and said that it was his granddad's house. I think...

You paintings are very special Eric, they have a lovely feel about them! What's that saying? - I don't know much about art but I know what I like! We've very privileged to have you share with us, thank you xx

Wow! what a talented painter Eric is! Thank you so much for sharing they are very special!

I remember my Dad had a few sayings like "up the wooden bridge" to go up stairs to bed, "brumegan gloves" if you had your hands in your pockets. If he was cross with me he'd say I was "enough to make a parson spit blackin" A sausage & tomato batch (is that just Coventry for a bread roll?) was...