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I was just wandering if anyone has come across a business known as "The Rosemary Crafts"? This business was run by a N & K Cavenagh at 78 Carless Avenue in Harborne around the 1930's. A long shot I know, but any information about it would be gratefully welcomed. When viewed on Google Earth I...

To every one who has replied a big thank you for all the time & trouble spent researching. Cushty

Thank you for that pjmburns it is amazing to think there is all this information out there and wonderful members of groups like this to impart it! A big thank you for your contribution. What a wonderful innocent age my parents lived in - pity that innocence was shattered by the events that...

oldMohawk, that is quite amazing and certainly bears out my thoughts about my mother's age! It is incredible that so much information is out there and how through groups like this, it is possible with some degree of certainty to date a photograph! What is also amazing is that my dad didn't cut...

oldMohawk - you may have hit the nail on the head because my grandfather worked at Austins during WW2 and if my mother was going out with my father at the time it would have been quite natural to have wandered up to Cofton Hacket airfield one weekend for a look around bearing in mind how new...

Hi oldMohawk - Thank you for that - Yes I rather wondered if it was Castle Bromwich airfield and I will look at the forum threads. Love the photographs of the Miles Magister and agree that that does look like the aeroplane in question. Certainly the date of 1936 ties in with my thoughts about...

Hi everyone, I am just wandering if anyone can identify when and where this photograph of my mother was taken? She was called Doris Mary Field and I am guessing that this photograph was taken some time in the 1930's. She was born in 1914 (infact just 4 days before the outbreak of WW1), so I...