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Ohhhhh hi jess coiuld you poss get some background for me please on one of my rels that died in there ?

ohhh no loinger needed eh mmm...well he was a skiled man and i guess he was needed back in industry in Bham so ye tha kind of makes sense.

i guess youre right , how are you anyway , hope you are keeping well , you are a trusty servant to this amazing site , thankyou so much xx

Hello good people , my nan used to live in this road (Tideswell rd) and bought the house from new and lived there until her passing in 1990 , I spent so much of my childhood staying with her , just wondering if anyone has any photos of the road from years gone by. tia

Hi ...erm i was just under the impression that kids lied about their age to get in the army and fight but as you say he joined as soon as he legally could bless him, and the war was still ongoing in the April of 18 when he joined albeit until November.

so he was born in 1900 so i wonder why he didnt join the forces in 14/15 , I know he was a skilled man he was a welder and sheet metal worker , would that have some bearing on why he didnt go and fight ?

it was called Billys not Bennys

I dont really understand what those docs are telling me in summary , what was his actual service history ?

Hiiiiii i dont get why there are RFC records and army records ?? how does that all piece together in ww1 for him ?

I still can’t work out where the bomb hit , was it a house that’s out of shot

Can anyone tell what happened here , where did the bomb drop , if half of the house was blasted away why isn’t the bus in two pieces , we’re there any casualties involved

Love reading this

Who has memories from the 80,s , thats when I was there for a year or two.

There could be a link to thomas field bcos i have a thomas in my tree from that era

Shame the pic is not clearer as my an and granddad lived next door and he tried to get into the hosue to rescue them

mmmmm so he died in july 1918 , 4 years after he was discharged from the army and ironically he died just as the war ended , how awful. Does anyone know what he did inbetween 1914 and 1918 ?

I was wondering if they ever took photos of the recruits when enlisiting them as none of the family know what he looks like because he dies of Spanish flu ?

My dad lived there in the 40s and 50s I think ...the field family

Hi ...I posted this probably about 10 years ago but got no responses , im looking for some information on the above pub which was on Gorsty Hill in Halesowen, my gran and grandad had it for a while , it would of been the 1950,s I think , their names were Charles Henry Field and Hilda Field and...