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Try contacting Fattorinis. As far as I know they are still in business in the Jewellery Quarter

I imagine my g grandfather Thomas Sewell would have been a regular there. My gran was born at 3back35 Lennox St in 1885 & g granfer was well known for his liking of "pop". He deserted his wife & 10 children after my gran was born. Don´t know if her birth was the final straw, but I imagine my g...

My Mum worked as a typist for Harry Dare in the 1930s when she was a teenager. He was a middle aged man then, so it may be possible to pin down his marriage/children to check the name theory.

Possibly the Birmingham School of Music if he was a musician. No idea when it was founded, but you can probably find info on Google.

Unusually for the time, they seem to have lived in Gt Colmore Street for many years. They were there when James was buried & still there for Ann & John Francis. I did wonder whether it may have been a matter of ability to pay. James had been working when he died, but Ann had been a widow with...

My 3xg grandfather James Sewell died in 1847 & was buried at St Thomas. I would have expected his wife Ann, who died in 1858 & his brother John Francis Sewell who died in 1862 to have been buried there too as the family were living in Gt Colmore St. However Ann & John Francis were buried at St...

Hi Richard. Have just picked up this post. Although I have no memory of Webley & Scott, my ancestors were sort of in at the beginning of the company. My 4xg uncle, William Davis was a gunmaker in Birmingham & took on a young apprentice called Philip Webley. Philip subsequently married William´s...

The biscuit factory was Alfred Hughes & the paint factory was Arthur Holden, They were both still operating in the early 70s.

Have been living in Menorca since I retired in 2005

Yes, it was the 56. The city terminus was outside Henrys in Union Street......before the Tax office was there. I used to work at the Employment Exchange near Washwood Heath garage. Kitty was a well known local character.

Another thought. Sometimes if a bus was running badly behind schedule when it got to a clock, an inspector would turn it round so that it was back on time (presumably so they didn´t have to pay the crew overtime). Used to happen regularly at the Fox & Goose.

My grandfather was chief designer & engraver for Fattorini. He worked for them in Bradford & came to Birmingham with them in around 1927.

Maybe someone else will remember better than I do, but I seem to remember that Kynoch became part of ICI in the 50s. There was a factory at Witton.

There was also a McVitie & Price biscuit factory near there on the other side of the river Cole, fairly near the Bulls Head. My grandparents lived next to the shops on Stechford Lane/Stechford road & my mother worked at McVities when ahe was in her teens. It must have been fairly close because...

The coroners report on the Newtown Row babies is in B´ham Archives. I saw it when I was doing my final dissertation for my cert HE in Local History several years ago.

Thank you all for that. unfortunately Charles faifax Crowder is not in my family.........or if he is, he kept very quiet about it. At least I can cross him off now. Thank you

Re: Help needed on the healy family About what date are you looking at & have you any idea where in Birmingham they may have lived? I have Heeleys in my tree, but spelled "ee" not "ea". It´s always worth looking at alernative spellings.

I may be hallucinating, but although I remember the Midland Ed being opposite C&A & later opposite Rackhams, I also think that they opened a branch on the Aston University campus. Think it may have been just books & stationary though.

Does anyone know who the Crowder was. My g grandmother was a Crowder & I´m trying to see if there is a link, although I am aware that there were at least 2 unrelated Crowder families in Brum in the mid-late 1800s 24.2.2013. Nobody any ideas??? Oh well.Back to the drawing board.

I seem to remember a firm called Concentric Engineering on that corner (Kingsbury Road/Tyburn Road.)My Dad worked at BIP Tools & I think it was a bit further along. Unfortunately I can´t ask him as he has been dead for 20 years.