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RichardinWales, I presume that you are referring to the western end of Crete as I am not familiar with the Stella Palace, though I have been to several English weddings and lots of Greek weddings over here. I certainly prefer the countryside here to that of Spain, which I though was fairly...

RichardinWales, Some friends in Cheshire, who own a house around the corner that my partner looks after, have now sold it, but the flights to finalise the deal and clear out their stuff in March were cancelled and moved back to 4 May. It's a very fluid situation at both ends at the moment...

Pedro, Unless I go into Aghios Nikolaos, our provincial capital 15 minutes drive away, I rarely see a tourist. Occasionally a few, who've hired a car, may stop and walk around the village, but it's not very often. In the current covid situation, I am grateful for that, and I expect that as much...

Fascinating stuff, Nico, and there are so many regional variations too. Sharp started collecting in 1893. It makes you wonder how many had come. gone and been lost before then. One of my books has a picture of the Bucknell (near Bicester, Oxfordshire) Morris Men that is dated as 1875 and by then...

Smudger, Richard & Jim, It sounds like you've all got it sorted. We're not beach people and rarely visit them unless with relatives over, and never did in the 40 years I lived in Bournemouth. Here I much prefer to go up in the mountains, lots of wildlife and no darned tourists! My Greek...

Pete, I don't even dance (or swim)! As for fancy braces & jingle bells round my legs, that's a big no no! :) Paul, I'm not actually a member, but I know some of the staff because my interest was in Cecil Sharp's music before he even got interested in folk music. Yes, he was a composer and...

Nico, That is what the English Folk Dance & Song Society do - preserve traditional folk songs and folk dances from years gone by, teach them to the younger generation and give demonstration performances. It was founded around 1912 by Cecil Sharp and a group of interested parties, including...

Frying them probably, Raz :) Maurice :cool:

Mort, No, John, no is a very old English folk song, also known in Sussex by the title Yonder stands a lovely creature. I know that we used to sing it school. Maurice :cool:

I have great respect for him, he is both a good musician and a shrewd businessman. He's gone fairly quiet on the musical side, but perhaps he doesn't need to and both of his sons are musicians. Maurice :cool:

Nick, Try this:- https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/boundary-map Maurice :cool:

Charlene, We were only there from a September 1941 until 1950, after that we sold up and moved to Albert Road, Kings Heath. Fishing was mainly sticklebacks & minnows, and if you were very lucky a "Daddy Ruff". Lots of frogs and the occasional toad. The allotments now look pretty tatty, but of...

It looks to me as it the pic in post #1 has either had its format converted, or has been sharpened or contrast adjusted until there's very little left. Maurice :cool:

Miskin yes, but Suff, no and I was born in Bartons Bank, Aston. Maurice :cool:

Page not found error on that attachment Pedro. Maurice :cool:

And why not indeed, Pedro, if they weren't happy with them they wouldn't buy any more. As the old saying goes, never worry about the customer who complains, you can mollify him, but do worry about the one that doesn't complain and never comes back. Maurice :cool:

Jason/MWS, Births and Deaths have now been digitised up to 1934. Would it be worth getting a pdf version of the original PRICE? one to see if you can decipher it as LEES ? Just a thought. Maurice :cool:

Phil, Yes, our old house is upper left with the bombsite next door, rebuilt on the modern picture. The old Springfield Cinema and next door to it what was the ballroom, now an Asian banqueting outfit. College Road infants and Junior Schools behind again. Bromyard Road across the bottom left...

Charlene, I should have pointed out that I left Brum and moved to Dorset in 1961 and moved to Crete in 2005. So my knowledge of pubs is pretty scant! I was more familiar with that area of the Cole that backs onto Sarehole Road and where we had a rope from a tree just above the weir (or...

Hello Charlene, Welcome to the Forum. I can't help with that end of Knowle Road and my knowledge from my childhood days extended as far as Cherry Ritter on the Solihull Road side going from the Stratford Road end. Even then there are a few people that end that I didn't know. But as you say, it...