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Is that from Kelly's or the census?

Wow, shame they had to demolish it :(

Joining this classic thread with a conundrum: does anyone know where this photo was taken? The year is around 1953, and in the photo we have my grandad Sydney William Tibbatts, my dad Alan and his little brother Ian. Grandad very smart in a tie on the beach! There's quite a distinctive building...

Does anyone have a cutting from 12th March 1941 about the air raid the previous night?

Mum is now in a care home on Dudley Park Road (the next road to Sherbourne), it's an old house, of the type that might well have been a nursing home in the 1940s. Imagine if she was born there! I expect it was Bon Accord though...

I'll get my sister to look it up, it's at hers. I didn't realise it would be on there, the address isn't on mine (1970)

Just a thought. I have a friend who gave birth to a stillborn baby in 1968 (not in Birmingham). She thought at the time that the hospital arranged the burial, but didn't know where. Many years after my friend's mother died, she found out that her late mother had requested the child's body from...

Ps the name remains, if not the building

Oh wow, thankyou. Sorry not been on here in a while. Is that the only nursing home listed for Acocks Green? Mom is living back in the area now, by the way.

Yes please do ask him if he remembers any Tibbattses. Mum says Dad remembered Carl's parents coming round to Oldknow Road when he was a kid. Bookmaking connections I'm guessing: Alice used to run a book for the whole neighbourhood from a biscuit tin in her kitchen :laughing:, which, when it...

Maxwell was a guest in 2010 so probably won't see this though :( Perhaps better not to relive the trauma...

I wonder if Carl knows the spice on the shenanigans at the Rimini/Vulcano/New Rimini ?

@Astoness I think we may both be super sleuths - the shadowy Mr Bundy I marked in the photo without the bus in the way is in the exact spot as the bundy in Carl's photo - outside the house with the plaque high up on the wall, and the mark of where another plaque was removed.

I just edited my post as you wrote, sorry. Sydney tragically died suddenly at 54 in 1968 but Carl's parents might have known him.

What absolute legends. Amazing! Carl Chinn no less. My mum just told me that Carl's dad knew Sydneys parents Harry and Alice, so I wonder if Carl knew Sydney? The lovely shops in the photo too. Was someone upthread saying they were sent to buy ladies unmentionables at a drapers? Was that the one?

Mr Bundy is very elusive, maybe the bad boys of the Vulcano stole him for scrap metal :joy:

OK this is becoming an unhealthy obsession. [Posted on this thread because about the Icknield Street clock and outside Sidney's] In general we know: The freestanding clocks were taller by at least a head than a person They could be facing the pavement or the road. Looking at the 3 photos of...

That's lovely to hear! Thank him for us. My grandad would probably laugh to hear us all chattering about a clock that was so ordinary at the time! Just also popping in a link to an old thread on Icknield Street.

This map would seem to explain clearly the difference between Digbeth and Deritend. It was so simple in 1778.

Here's a Lucas rugby team from some time around 1958. My late dad Alan Tibbatts is front far right, he worked in Great King Street toolroom at the time.