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Sarah, Welcome to the Forum. Hopefully someone will pick up on this if your uncle or yourself are still seeking information. Maurice :cool:

Alistair, Does this help? https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol7/pp501-548 Maurice :cool:

Yes, Viv, definitely drawings as they are far too large for pressed flowers, the other thing that was all the rage at that time and now seems to have died out. RonT, Yes, I also posted this to Mac's site a year or two back and I presume that all the kids in the photograph were given a copy as...

I knew the Stage Door and occasionally went in there, but it was not that as I really believe the entrance was on High Street. Round the other corner was my other favourite haunt, the Firebird. Susan, yes, full of smoke and both my younger brother, Roy, and his then girl friend were heavy...

This may, or may not be, relevant and I have posted it on here once before somehere. It is dated 1907 and somewhere amongst the kids is my late wife's great uncle. Maurice :cool:

Tates, That High Street picture is brilliant, just before I moved to Dorset in January 1961. Amongst those shops on the right there used to be a folksy coffee bar that my late brother and his then girl friend used to use a lot. Marvellous stuff. Maurice :cool:

Hi Elf9, I was living at 215 Knowle Road from 1941 to 1950, though I can't say I remember other than the College Arms from so long ago and I rarely ever walked beyond the College Arms,except occasionally to the Rialto. But thanks for recording your memories. Maurice :cool:

Railwaymaniac, Welcome to the Forum. I lived in Albert Road, Kings Heath throughout the 1950s and 1960, never knew about the school, but well remember seeing that brown and gold uniform about. I wasn't so inquisitive in my early 20s! Enjoy your time here, & feel free to make use of the search...

Mort, Similar to that, my father worked at making wooden packing cases for Perry Pens of Lancaster Street. Once the goods were sealed into the packing case, the whole case was bound with a copper-plated heavy steel oval-section steel wire. Finding that the handle on our toasting fork was too...

In WW1, multiple deaths in families seems not uncommon. I've just completed doing a potted history of the now lost cast bronze WW1 memorial for the first Punshon Memorial Wesleyan Methodist Church in Bournemouth. The church was bombed in WW2 and subsequently demolished, and a replacement church...

Dawn, You mean this guy:- who according to his advertisements in the local press, appears to have been in business as a photographer from roughly 1883 to 1898. But have you seen this in Birmingham Archives? :-...

And not quite as interesting as I thought it might be as quite a lot of it merely regurgitates the national & international news already appearing in better known titles. Currently it starts with issue 25 in 1877, so it remains to be seen whether the earlier issues are added. Maurice :cool:

Mike, I browsed a few of the Harborne Herald and a lot of the stuff overflows into Birmingham. It seems another interesting source. Maurice :cool:

With reference to post #631 et seq, the full story of the Wing Yip organisation is told in detail in More Birmingham Memories published by True North Books Limited. Woon Wing Yip first came to the UK from his native Hong Kong in 1959 with £10 in his pocket. After a few failed job offers, he...

I think it all boils down to price, Steven. How quickly can it be erected, and speed is what saves money. All I can add is that you get what you pay for. For example, it is far quicker and cheaper to pour concrete than it is to employ stonemasons, if you can find any. Maurice :cool:

Well spotted, MWS :) Maurice :cool:

John, I entirely agree about the announcer, and why they had to include that in a record mystifies me. I well remember the vocalist Benny Lee,so I looked him up on Wiki and he was certainly in all the places I expected, including Take It From Here and the various Bernard Braden shows, only...

Johnny Clae was born in the UK with a Scottish mother and Belgian father and at one stage had played with the great Coleman Hawkins. In the late 1940s he moved to the Netherlands and began a short Grand Prix racing career alongside people like the late Sterling Moss, though we wasn't as good...

Johnny Claes & the Clae Pidgeons was one of the first bands that Ronnie Scott ever sat in with, just two or three years after he had started to play tenor sax. Ronnie decided himself that he just hadn't got the experience to play with so good a band, and Johnny agreed. But I really like this...

Dawn, The value of his estate was around £75,000, probably the value of the house he lived in, but he didn't appear to leave a Will. However, for a measly sum you will be able to find the names of his executors from the Probate Registry. But a question of copyright may be a little complex. For...