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You're right Pete some weeds have pretty flowers, some people class buttercups as weeds bit I love them but not in my lawn. No gardening today, rain started at 5.30 this morning and hasn't stopped since, at least we won't be having hosepipe bans this year:):)

Welcome Julmulla, You can contact the General Register Office online and order his birth certificate you must Quote Philip Emery birth 1948 Lichfield mother Emery , Volume 9b Page 310 and they will forward his birth certificate to you, pay by credit card £11.

Lovely films Pete, some great memories in there.

It will possibly be that I never live long enough to see a blinking train run past here but for years now and for years to come I have lived with the horrendous sight of the devastation all around where I live , trees axed down in their hundreds, and wildlife looking for new homes. The roads in...

I think there must have been a reason why these 2 people with religious beliefs didn't marry but had 2 children. I think Edward was aware of the situation and Florence obtained a divorce. They married in 1924 and the year previous it had been made possible for wives to divorce their husbands...

A lack of small birds in my garden at the moment except for the resident Robin, we have noisy visitors in the large Sycamore opposite the house, they are the Shard End parakeets beautiful but noisy although they do fly back home every evening Apparently many nearby areas now have parakeets.

I am aware that this could go on forever so ,I think the only way for Burbridge to acceot our findings or tp prove us wrong is if he/she gets the death certificate for the person who died in 1915, UK records show that there was only one death of an Arthur Dudley in 1915, he died age 20 in...

I don't know what to say but to clarify what I found, no records found for an Arthur Samuel Dudley died in 1915, who was born in 1878. Records found yesterday in various military records. Arthur Samuel Dudley born 1878 Service number 25178 residence Sparkbrook Discharged 1919 Awarded...

1939 Arthur Samuel has married Violet Ellis in 1931 and they are at Baldwins road and he is a Barman incapacitated they have with them Joseph E Dudley born 1917 but registered Ellis.

Although nowadays it is unusual for a woman to move on without her children, it may be that the marriage was one of convenience , the marraige and birth took place in the same quarter (July/Aug'Sept )1901 , the child was born on August 22nd so that means they were married for only weeks before...

Documentary about Birmingham on 5Select tonight, may be of interest.

R.I P Trevor. Remember Brian Clough telling him to take his hands out of his pocket when he was presenting him with the Player of the year award and he said , Yes Sir.:)

I lived on Washwood Heath Road from 1961 to 1967 and shopped along Alum Rock Road, I remember my first experience of a 'supermarket'albeit a small one.It was on the right hand side as you go from the Gate and somewhere near to Harlew Caravans,, ironmongers. Does anyone remember it and know the name.

Hydrangea cuttings take so easily that I have stopped because I had so many. Make sure they never dry out they are thirsty blighters. Janice, I usually leave my dead flower heads on until March/April but last year cut my large lacecap ones off in the Autumn and pruned it back a bit and it...

R.I P. Tony Butler. Tony passed away on Friday aged 88. He was once given elocution lessons because his accent was so broad that often even brummie listeners couldn't understand him:worried:

Janice, not very good at transfering photos but if you go to ancestry Midlands Criminal records it has police photos of James Grindrod age 16, looking like an innocent young man given 3 months for assault and on the next page a very handsome John Adrian age 19 given 12 months for Unlawful...

Just found someone with this family on their family tree on Ancestry and I have messaged them to fly the flag for BHF and told them where to find the post..

What a wonderful story Viv. Charles in 1939 365 Alwold road , Birmingham Charles b 1881 Florrie b.1884, (Florence Dutton they married in 1914.) Ivy b, Sept 1917 Charles b, 11th may 1919 , Roof sheeter, heavy work & ARP. George k 11th may 1928. Charles Wilcox b. 11th may 1919 died in...

Evelyn had 2 siblings Claude born 1916 married Rose anderson in 1938 and in 1939 lived in Peorce Avenue Solihull, he died in solihull in 1987 They had a son Raymond N Wallis in 1940 and a daughter Pauline A Wallis in Solihull in 1947 Rose died in 1963 and Claude remarried in 1966. Lilian...

Evelyn in Coleshill Hall in 1939 is Evelyn M Wallis b 30th September 1914 to Walter Edwin Wallis and Catherine Felicia nee Hatton she died in 1959 Girls born Wallis with mother Wallis in Warwickshire Margaret 1939 Lynda 1948 Maria A 1957 Denise J C 1957 these are all registered Birmingham...