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I have no idea who collected the charity flags shown in the pictures below. Nor do I know why. They were in my mother's effects. She was born in Birmingham in 1905. The majority I have shown seem to be of the era around WW1. The flags on Sheet 1 are for local charities. Flag B may not be...

Wow fame at last. I am in a photo at BHF (photo 2). I was probably 13/14 then and it was the only time I did cross country running. Instead of running over wet rough muddy countryside I found playing rugby on a wet rough muddy field preferable. My father must have been disappointed. He was...

I was 17 in 1953 and living at 128 Bankes Road. I dont recognise anybody. Attached (I hope) is 128 in about 1910. The girl is my aunt Beatrice Goldsby.

O dear my first post on BHF and I might be wrong. I left Birmingham for a bomb-free part of Yorkshire in 1941 aged 5 (my father had been 'directed' there to make Rolls Royce engines). Prior to that going into the shelter every night was just what you did. At the end of the war we came back and I...

I thought Rackhams had previously had a shop in Colmore Row. Its window had been damaged by bombing during the war. Like similar others, the window was boarded up with just a small glass pane in the the middle.