Search results

When at Knights Printers in Oxford St - off Bordesley St we used to overprint Typhoo Tea boxes and during the 3 day week in 1974 while most of us was " enjoying " time off the guys on those machines had to go in as it was deemed as essential food packaging.......3/4 years later Typhoo was...

Thanks for the info about it being Birmingham Weekly Mercury and for putting the page up.....the cottage is where my next door neighbour was born in 1928 but its now just a car park.

A general question.... Is there anywhere I could look at an issue of The Sunday Mercury 15th July 1973. I have newspaper access on FindMyPast. But cannot find if its possible to do it. I want to see an article as I only have access to 1/2 of it at the moment...also the picture that goes with it...

I know ...I used to work all around here for years....still a few back to backs when I started.....these are portrayed as the pits but on recent visits to the back streets ....not far from the Typhoo building it really is the pits.Was busy busy with all sorts of businesses but now run down with...

Thanks yes they seem to live in next doors large garden but this one likes to sun bathe in ours.

Keep seeing this chap(ess) any time of day or night....

Brilliant that people can again live around here - probably Millionaires though. Just keep the graffiti merchants away.....

Here's one from Hollymoor Tower Northfield........apparently pigeon fancies will kill them now I have put a picture on...but apparently they won't from all the other many sites in south Brum....

not picked up any on my bird call App at Brandwood ...YET...

Mine is between kitchen and bathroom windows.

This box has been used for over 30 years....

Remember the CoOp being on both sides of High St

Always try every name they might be under......and as for dates on Marriages etc then its only what the person declares so could be anything. I try and get a dig of the birth certs as somewhere near proof.

Apparently we all have to look in awe at proper art...give me guy and iron man any day...

Always reminds me of a place to have a sit/drink on a Friday as we left work early.....

2 relative brothers aged 7 and 10 were sent by Middlemores to Canada in 1903 as mother had left home...as it turned out temporarily.....and even though they travelled together they were sent to different farms.I would like to think they had a better life and both fought in WW1 for...

They have been "holding on to" the mail to concentrate on parcels...this as well as not paying anything to the Post Office scandal victims I can see them going Bust.

Hi Bev. When we was looking for Wife's Mother her Birth Certificate said 88(think) Dudley Road in 1923 but a few years later a Cert for sibling said Weston Road. To view records we had to go to Library of Birmingham and join up to book an appointment. The record books were awesome and we found...

Too many pop up ads...I'm out..

Thought that might be the case after I posted...lol....