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I came across an article on Birmingham Online (ie the Bham Mail online) that listed many of the well known roads in Birmingham with Jennens Row as one of them. As MWS says above, it mentions that the Jennens family were ironmongers from Nether Whitacre. That's fine but were they the same...

I have only just found your post so apologise for missing it but I have been unwell for the most part of 2023 so could easily have missed it. Yes, that is my John Gossage (his wife ran the "off licence" and shop, while he continued his job as a carpenter). Sorry Rob. I have made a pig's ear...

This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much.

I am aware that there is a Jennens Road in Edgbaston and that this was probably named after the Jennens family business of making papier mache products. I have been trying to find out as much as I can about the Jennens family because my great grandfather was told that his grandfather was...

Welcome. My grandfather worked at C&H but I haven't seen any of the equipment before. Thank you

Thank you, brummy-lad. It's good to see the difference between the map and the photo and how it changed over those years. It is fascinating and I could pore over maps and photos for hours. Thank you again.

Thank you, MWS. They both are fascinating so will keep me quiet for some time. I do appreciate your prompt response.

That doesn't surprise me. We don't have a climate, just weather!

I have found my 3xpaternal great grandmother at 2 Court, Upper Trinity Street Aston in 1851 when she died at the age of 39 from TB. Does Upper Trinity Street still exist or is it a demolished wasteland and if so, whereabouts is it? I have googled it but have only found this...

Mikejee, thank you for the maps. It really is a long street isn't it. It must have been very mixed buildings, a bit like it is now I suppose.

Yes, RobT. That's him. At that time he was still a carpenter and his wife used to run the shop. He lived at number 25 Silver St which would be opposite International Stock Disposal.

My great, great grandfather John Gossage was born in November 1837 with his birth certificate showing he was born in Bradford Street, Aston. I know Bradford Street is a very long street but I while I was told it was a court house that he lived in, I wondered if at that time, Bradford Street was...

The trouble is that when we think Spring has sprung we get the snow and a lot of it, usually in March!

After the cold snap last week, my hellebores are now in bud! So that's what they needed a cold shock!

Strangely enough, my hellebores haven't flowered yet this year though the bulbs are coming up and are well-advanced for this time of year.

Thank you for researching it for me, Janet, and it's good to know that you found pleasure in looking into it too. I hadn't realised that the building was demolished around 1963 when I was 11 or so. That explains why I never heard of or saw it again. My mother used to do a lot of sewing and it...

I send you all my best wishes for the New Year and hope that things won't be as bad as they have been this year.

Fascinating, it is such a pity that those magnificent Victorian buildings have gone so the city centre has lost that character. Thank you Janet. That has settled my mind on that subject now. During lockdown my mind has pondered on subjects I never had time to ask about when I was a lot...

Janet, unfortunately, I can't. I remember it was packed with people and that the stalls were right next to each other. I seem to remember I wasn't tall enough to look over the top of the stalls but my eyes were rather level with them. I don't remember looking up at the ceiling but remember...

Thank you so much for that map which, I hope, will put everything in perspective but it must be 65 years or so ago since I was that small child. I hadn't realised how far my mother walked me (I'm 70 now). Thank you, MWS.