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I camped in a cemetery where over 350,000 people are buried, actually sleeping on top of unmarked graves. Also wandered around there alone at night several times. No ghostly occurrences. I think it's the living we should worry about.

I can't afford to subscribe to Ancestry at the moment unfortunately :(

Have you got a screenshot you could post please?

Wow, I'd love to know what became of the baskets. They'd be worth a fortune now.

Our family lived there, great grandad was caretaker of the school and my grandparents Sydney and Irene lived a few doors down. Say hello to anyone who remembers them for me.

Semolina, with a blob of jam, and a bit of a skin on it. Divine.

I wonder why he enlisted with them? I read that they mainly recruited from a specific area of Scotland at that time. That was why I initially thought he was Scottish. The cycle connection is also interesting. Apparently before the Cycle Corps was put together, lots of regiments had their own...

I forgot to upload the pictures yesterday, here they are. Note George's sewing and that it appears the tin is lined with the tissue paper that originally wrapped the chocolate (I looked up photos of the rare tins with the chocolate still in). Also his lucky Italian coin and veteran association...

Yes indeed, and the medals are worth money, I don't want to give them to someone who never met George and will just sell them. I'd rather sell them myself and put them in the hands of a collector who appreciates them. The responsibility!

I was hoping for him to have grandchildren I guess. I don't think I'd give them to great nephews/nieces especially if there are several and it's not clear which one. I suspect the two ladies were friends. Strange to give / lend the medals as she still had living children nearby I think? Or am I...

I just realised something. They were found at 27 Daniels Road, not 32. My relatives were the Bennetts, who were living there from the 60s I think, and there was at least one occupant in between.

Hi I have a photo of the Retreat, I'll bookmark this thread and get back to you

Hi I worked at one of the Magnificent 7 Cemeteries in London. In the 1920s i don't believe anyone who ended their own life would be refused burial in a public cemetery, and would be recorded in the normal way. 'Unconsecrated ground' just means 'Not C of E section'. Their grave may have been...

Thankyou so much :)

My mom was born in 1941 during an air raid in the basement of a small private nursing home in Acocks Green (described as 'a house' - it had a piano!). Does anyone know where it might have been?

Wow you are all amazing, @Astoness posted before 6am! Please don't contact anyone on my behalf, if you find contact details

Ooh I'm excited that people are interested! I will post a photo now and some more later today. I'd absolutely love to get these medals back to the family. They weren't discarded or sold, but hidden, so someone valued them a lot.

I have the box and it has his medals from the Boer War and WW1. When it was found there was no internet so it was impossible to trace him, now I've inherited it so doing some research.

This is much later but my grandad was the organist. His name was George Bennett. The family lived in Bedford Road at the back of the church from before WW1, in a house facing the railway arches. His dad worked at the gasworks. He learned to play the organ because he used to be the bellows boy...

Years ago a relative moved into a house in Daniels Road, Bordesley Green. She found hidden a box belonging to a George Horton. I believe he was probably Scottish. Does anyone know any descendents?