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You look a bit like Bill Bryson ;)

0121-ers doesn't quite have the same ring, but this is how the old Tammies refer to those who moved en-masse from Birmingham to the new estates built around old Tamworth. And just in case you were one of those, here is a page I have been working on over the last week or so...

I recorded Ron Welch some years ago but somebody sent a message today which reminded me of our discussion. It is here if you are interested if anybody wants to volunteer to do a similar thing in the new years post-lockdown then let me know.

aha, have now included the attachment to #438 - strange nobody else seemed to notice! But does anybody know owt about the time capsule??

Worro Lyn, hope yer 'avin' a bostin' day.

I recently acquired some nice pics of Ansell's so I spent yesterday afternoon uploading a selection of them, with many enlarged images. This particular photograph is a curious one, and an event I was unaware of. It is a time capsule buried by the brewery when the new buildings were erected in...

Hi everyone, I have not been on the forum of late as I have been busy working on other parts of the Midlands. I do a bit each day and it never stops. Anyway, hope you are all keeping well. I came across this item today .... it is a message from the Chairman of Ansell's to employees and dated...

New Order claimed they had never heard of this record prior to recording "Blue Monday" .... I think it speaks for itself :

James Samuel Johnson kept the Plough and Harrow on Bloomsbury Street, a public-house operated by Ansell's.

John Henry Usher took over the licence of The Angel on 21st May 1953 and was succeeded by Charles Powell on 21st January 1954.

The factory was in Barr Street but, although this former shop was next to the works, it had an address of 214 Wells Street and faced the Woodman. I am pleased to report that it was once a cycle shop. During WW2 it was run by Harold Richards.

This one is on the corner of Barr Street and Well Street :

Here's one of a press tool manufactory :

Hey! let's shake things up with a great cover version :

This could be a location-specific request in that Albert Road, Aston, was mentioned.

I get some bizarre messages sometimes but I have been asked if there was a school known as Colorado in the 19th century. Anybody heard of such a thing. Sounds a little unlikely to me but I thought I would ask...

If I bump into Joseph McKenna I may have to ask for my money back!! I have crossed out the errors within this small section ...

Forget what you may have read in books or on other websites, the dating of the photographs on my page are much more accurate based on all the evidence.

I have uploaded information on this pub at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/suffolk-street/kings-arms.htm

The first photograph is almost certainly 1891 - however, although John Downes had probably gone by this image, this is the pub as he would have known it. Succeeding Rose Lester, he was licensee from May 4th 1888 to March 6th 1891. During this time the building was owned by Edward Ansell of...