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Thanks for that Alberta. It´s been bugging me for years wondering who John Albert´s partner was. He & his family did indeed live in Linwood Road & later moved to Philip Victor Road. he & Selina are buried in the same grave at St Mary Handsworth.

Trying to confirm who the Clarke was. The Sewell was my grandmother´s brother John Albert Sewell who was married to Selina Ryland. I suspect that the Clarke was Robert Clarke who was married to Selina´s sister Elizabeth, but can´t prove it. The two families were living next door to each other in...

My Grandfather was chief designer for Fattorinis. He started working for them in Bradford, then moved to Birmingham with them about 1927. He stayed there until he retired in 1952 when he was 80 & died 2 years later. He designed & engraved the previous FA cup, the 1948 Olympic medals, the mayor...

Hi Rosy. Ingoldsby Road is mainly Local Authority housing. It may be worth you contacting Birmingham City Council Housing Dept to see if they have any records of the family. If you have a house number, obviously that would help. They won´t be able to give you any personal details, but may be...

yes. I´ve had that too. A fellow researcher took it upon herself to add details of my ex husband & my 2 daughters. I had to get really stroppy with her in the end in order to get her to remove them as I have them marked as private on my tree. I realise that the info is readily available online...

There is a tree on An***try which shows a great aunt of mine being married to 2 different men at the same time, one in Australia & one in London, & having children with both of them. (She must have had a bike). I have told him several times that he has the wrong family & even found the correct...

There was a large Auxilliary Fire station at the Fox & Goose, Ward End. My Dad, his brother & my mother were all stationed there. Dad worked making spitfires at Fisher & Ludlow & his brother worked at the Dunlop. Unfortunately they are all dead now, so can´t ask them about it.

Course there was such a place. It was down the Rock.

Thank you Astonian, but it´s unlikely to be connected to my Nellie. Norman was her maiden name.

Looking for info about this lady who was my mother´s half sister. She was born in Bradford in 1908. Following her mother´s death, her father re married & in around 1927 the family moved to Birmingham. Nellie & one of her sisters went with them. At some point around 1930-32 there was a huge...

When my kids were little we lived in Cumbria. What I knew as blarting was skriking there.

This has probably been mentioned before as I haven´t read right through. In the early 60s the night service buses used to terminate at the back of Rackhams & it became a popular place for the "ladies of the night" to ply their trade (edited) Hence the saying "I´ll have to go up the back of...

depends where you are looking because the area now called Bromford was a racecourse until the 1960s

Possibly St Philip & St James on Hodge Hill common. Not sure when it opened, but it was certainly operating in 1951 when my brother was baptised. The old building was a temporary one which burned down & a new "proper" church was built in the late 60s/early 70s. You could also try Castle Bromwich...

Have just come across this. My g grandparents Frederick & Ann Davis lived in Great Russell Street. He was a bicycle maker. Ann´s mother (my g grandmother) was Elizabeth Beet who married a Charles Price. Have lots of family history on the Beet family as well as the Davises if anyone is...

have you tried contacting Ward End library. They should know of it & whether it´s still available. My mother had a copy of it several years ago,but she´s been dead for 4 years & I´ve no idea what happened to it.

Does anyone know anything about a measles epidemic in Birmingham around 1925-1930 ? A cousin is sure that her father´s sister´s husband & child died in the outbreak, but can´t find any relevent deaths in the Kings Norton area.

Thanks for the link Jennyann. Will take a look over the weekend

Can anyone tell me anything about this school? It was a private school, pretty sure it was called Amberley & it was on Coleshill Road, just opposite the Metro Cammell sports ground. It was a big old house which stood back from the road & next door to it a vet´s surgery was built in the 60s. My...

The centralisation of wills through the civil courts didn´t start until 1858. Prior to that, they were proved through the church courts. Sorry, can´t tell you any more than that, but it may be worth having a word with one of the archivists at Central library.