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I have taken this from the Sussex Rootsweb site and it might throw a little insight in to illegitimacy in general. I do not know if in general these remarks will help. My husband retrained as a Social Worker in his mid 40s in the 1980s. He spent some time as a student in a Bolton elderly...

These shops Maggs? These were the shops just down from the Royal Mint in Hingeston Street. Ray

If there is no fathers name on the birth cert, there is always a possibility that the father could well be named on the baptism of the child, this happened with my grandfather, although no fathers name on the birth cert, nor indeed his first baptism, I persevered and found another baptism a few...

Hopefully I will be going up Thursday Evening, If I get a spare 5 minutes i will try and do the look up for you, cannot promise though.

He was a lithographic printer, highly skilled trade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography

Hi Lyn. No still the wrong direction, but no worries as this is a great image and one I had not seen before, i will import it into photoshop and stitch it back together again, do you know what the annoying thing is? I once found the image I was looking for in a mag but I just cannot remember...

Go to......... https://www.ted.rudge.btinternet.co.uk/ Go into the Winson Green site (Not Brookfields) Click "Streets" (Top of web page) Scroll down to Foundry Road, a few images and story's relating to the road. Dibs

Another great image Lyn, I do not know how you find them all lol. Looks like they are walking downhill towards Icknield Street and passing the Laurels just down from the Rose & Crown. Dibs

And this is Ron "Smudge" Smith's painting, albeit a very poor copy taken from a thumbnail on the "Old Ladywood" site.

This is another view of your image Lyn.

Alas and sadly no Lyn, this image is taken approaching the GWR railway bridge from the Spring Hill, The Mint direction, in this image you can see Pitsford Street on the left and right as you go under and come out of the bridge you would have Park Street and Hockley GWR railway station entrance...

Thanks Lynn, i have been looking for that particular image for a number of years. Cheers. dibs

Hello Lynn. The photograph you mention, Icknield Street Bridge coming from Lodge Road, Do you mean from the direction of the Flats? And if so, does the photograph show the bridge and part of Hockley GWR railway station? Kind regards. Dibs

All the thanks go to you Shera for kindly letting Lynn have loan of the cards and Lynn for taking the time and trouble in scanning and posting the cards, what a lovely collection and well worth sharing. Thank you both, you are true stars of the forum. Dibs.

from google. In today's world, yet again and especially now MIZPAH, the legendary "Bodyguard" and Reminder on our core strengths has a lot to offer, even besides the fact of it being the ideal gift. "MIZPAH is the blue thread of hope through the labyrinth of our modern world, the confident...

Brilliant, thank you so much, do you mind if I take a copy please?

Do you know there is a distinct possibility that she is on the far left second row, looks exactly like my cousin Susan (her daughter), can you tell me please, there seems to be some sort of distortion on the posted image going down on the left hand side, is that on the original photograph too...

She would have been 6 or 7 by then, what year was your grandfather born?

What a brilliant photograph, my late nan could well be on there too. Ellen street was in Brookfields the four streets that bounded the school were Pitsford Street, George St West, Prescott Street and Ellen Street, it wasn't far from the Mint in Icknield Street, the school was destroyed in WW11...

Very interesting about the underground station........... Good link here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balham_station Scroll down to WW11. Wasn't there another serious loss of life at another underground station when there was a mad scramble to get out for one reason or another and many...