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Hello folks ....I am looking for any information possible on my gt gran who died in 1931 her name is Ellen Ray....who married my gt grandad George william Field who also died in 1931 ....dont know where she was born ....her fathers name is william ray and her mother Caroline Ray.

ye it is mostly pictures of the children of tile cross rather than the actual school buildings in any detail...

Tile cross J&i ....funnily enough was on Tile Cross road......and is now an industrial estate......aaah such nice memories I have of it...

Hi ....I went to Tile Cross Infant and Junior school between 1969 and 1975 and being the old melancholy nostalgic fool that I am and BECAUSE IT WAS DEMOLISHED in 1977 I have now pictures of it at all and would be really nice to see any photos of the school from any period. It was built after the...

mr carrot our very own brummie funnyman lives in that neck of the woods also.... chessets wood

Thanks Paul....ye How Will U Check The Layout.....have U Got A Document....

where did u live in dorridge Bernie.........and why am i clssified on here as a novice brummie.......im born and bred .....is it classified on how many posts u put in..

yes that maybe what the case was in my house...as there was a loo and next to it a coverted larder....and a roof over it which was a definite add on.....so I guess originall it was an outside loo and a coal house.....mmm thnks for that.

love your story....bet dorridge was even lovelier then as it was more rural....now u have the new estates the other side of the railway.......what was the original heating in the houses ? my house is slightly different to yours....ours was built with a thru lounge and a serving hatch (yuk)...I...

definiteley will get a photo of 118 over the weekend...and post it .....

wow...im impressed.......I live at 110.....been there since 1999...luv the pics....the road has hardly changed.........cant believe that you had no fence seperating u from the edstone clse houses......

great ....i wanted to see them in their original state I have not seen any pics of these houses before....., mine was built in 1957 I believe and is situated on the even side of the road near to edstone close .....where roughly is your house , and is it true you have lived there since 1960 ? ...

Hi thanks for going to the trouble....it is actually Knowle high street...cheers Karl

so did Poplar road just simply finish after the cottages until the 1950,s when my houses were built....

Fan flamintastic.......the cottages there are still as they were......my house is about a quarter of a mile up Poplar road...a 50,s built house.....I wonder where I could get one of my section of Poplar road...... cheers for taking the time to find this for me.....

Dianne,,,,,sorry forgot ....your story painted a lovely picture ...thankyou.....

Hi ye .....my folks bought one of the detached houses on Bell Lane in 1969 they still live there now....£3500 they paid back then........real ramshackle my dad moved over here due to work ....he is a plumber and secured a contract on the then new chelmsley wood estate on the new homes..but going...

Hi ...would anyone by chance have any photos of Poplar Road , Dorridge in their collections please. Cheers

Hi gang....have any of you guys got any pictures of the above roads in and around the Tile Cross area...I lived in Bell Lane from when I was 4 in 1968 until 1988 ...my parents are still there ....but people tell me that Bell lane was before the 60,s a little tiny country lane.......I would love...

thanks.....what a beautiful place it was in the 50,s...