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Coventry Standard, Friday 30th December 1864: "Warwickshire Agricultural Society’s Show. The Judge was Mr. Dougins, who is judge of poultry at the Royal Agricultural Society’s shows, and his decisions gave great satisfaction. He spoke highly of the present exhibition. POULTRY. Class I. Cochin...

Birmingham Daily Gazette, Wednesday 27th July 1864: "VINTAGE HOUSE, In the Village of Yardley. UNRESERVED SALE OF THE VERY SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. A first class Oak DINING-ROOM SUITE, full-compass COTTAGE PIANOFORTE, in walnut; noble Chimney Glasses, best Brussels Carpets, costly Chime...

Birmingham Journal, Saturday 3rd October 1863: "VINTAGE HOUSE, YARDLEY, to be LET, pleasantly situated near to the Church, with Coach-house and Stabling, large Garden and Orchard, and Three-and-a-half Acres Pasture Land. Taxes nominal. Rent £30. Apply to Messrs. H. N. GRIMLEY Son, Estate Agents ".

Google Aerial View, 2023.

Ordnance Survey, 1945. Vintage House is gone. I've circled what remains. Maybe this was Vintage Cottage all along?

This is the Map of Birmingham and its Environs (Southampton, 1884-1891), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/os-1-to-2500/birmingham [accessed 21 August 2023].

This is from the OS 1888 map. I assume 'Vintage House' was later known as 'Vintage Cottage'.

This is from the Bill Dargue "A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames" site.

His father died in 1923, when my father was about 12. If you look at the 1921 census for Merthyr, so many were unemployed. Whole families like mine moved to Birmingham for work.

His name was Tom Evans. Born in Dowlais, near The Pant cemetery.

The 1939 register is how I found out that my Mom and my Auntie, her sister, were ARP wardens. The 1939 gives a person's occupation, but in my case there was a little note in the margin that they were Fire Wardens at Lucas's factory in Foremans Road.

I used to walk up Lyndon Road every day to get to school - Chapel Fields Junior. 232 Lyndon Road is not far from the school. If you start from The Wheatsheaf on Coventry Road, and head towards Birmingham, it's the first road on the left, with Tesco on the corner. The Lyndon Road estate was...

Have a look at the lodger. John Hayes, aged 36. What are the chances that that's Billy's brother? His place of birth is also mistranscribed, but I would bet that it's Market Dereham. Better known to us these days as Dereham Market. That's in North Norfolk, which is in the same part of the...

Do you know where Samuel is from originally? I can find a Samuel, one of six children, with a father called George, born in Upper Gornal.

Likewise at the National Archives: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=%22Norton+Training+School%22

Couldn't find anything in the papers until I searched for Norton Training School: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?retrievecountrycounts=true&sortorder=dayearly&phrasesearch=Norton%20Training%20School%20&page=1

This photo is taken in 1952. The flats in the foreground are in Viceroy Close. The green line is about where number 68 is. The photo is from https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/EAW042884.

These are houses in Speedwell Road, built around the same time, and will be very similar to the houses on Bristol Road. If you look at Wellington Road as well, you can see the grandeur of the area. You can see this house has a coach house built in to it, and one of the adverts for 68 Bristol...

96 Bristol Road (The Corinthians) is a Grade II listed building, built circa 1885, and is described as being part of the Calthorpe Estate. I would hazard a guess that number 68 was also part of the estate. Close control was kept by the Estate over the size of building plots and the quality of...

Got my old school tie, and my cap. Those were from 1968.