Search results

I think this is the clincher - This modern snap of the North side of the Church shows buttresses and a roof line that absolutely match up with the watercolour of "Priory Farm" in the V&A. - That picture was painted in 1940 may even show one of the Land Girls returning to her billet. - So Priory...

Surely Post #17 would imply that the Land Girls were housed at the Big Southam House (now a hotel) - also known as Southam De La Bere. Here's the 1913 map - A is the current Pidgeon House building. B is what is currently called Priory Cottage (too small to accommodate many girls) - C is Southam...

There is a small "Priory Cottage" only a hundred yards away from the Pidgeon House. Maybe some of the girls were billeted there but took their meals in the much bigger Pidgeon House. - On a map from 1900 the Pidgeon House is still called The Pidgeon House.

Yep SuperDad! Spot On. - Its a building next to the Church at Southam Gloucestershire - Google Streetview doesn't list it but I've found a Property Listing for it - The Building is now called "The Pidgeon House"...

Silly me - I'd done a search for "Take Me High" and "Cliff Richard" in the search box but nothing came up on the first page so I figured it had never been featured before - I've just stumbled upon this other posting from back in 2008 - so if a moderator can combine them, please do...

Great find on the Internet Archive - Even if the description does call Birmingham a "small industrial town".:) Its a very early film role for Anthony Andrews - Quite a few years before his part in Brideshead Revisited.

Here's the parade - New Street and Corporation Street.

For those who need reminding what they looked like.

The date of 4th March 1945 ties in exactly with "Operation Gisela", the last big Luftwaffe operation against the UK that took place over the night of 3rd/4th March 1945. It was exactly as the article says - German night fighters following British bombers back to their bases. It was the only...

Further to my last post - Here's an aerial photo from 1945 - There are some mysterious bright splodges in the right area. - The area to the west seems to have been divided up in some way - maybe into some kind of allotments for the "dig for Victory" campaign?

When I was a nipper, I remember there being a series of depressions in the ground on the hill above Alwold road by Weoley Castle. You can still see the larger depressions today (see Google Streetview link below). Back then (1960s) they were all filled with sand, like golf bunkers. We kids used...

It does look like that - But later on in the newspaper clipping it mentions "Dim out" starting on 17th Sept 1944 - so its got to be 1945.

Its disappeared under housing. This link to Google Streetview will take you to the approximate spot - Notice the pub "The Lion Bar and Restaurant" and compare it with the photo in post #5. https://maps.app.goo.gl/8ZhSZDUf2WfacbUp6

The bikes in the poster look like the 1913 "3+1⁄2 hp" model. https://www.cotswoldmotoringmuseum.co.uk/collections/bsa-3%C2%BD-19013/

Bad news I'm afraid. The owner posted on Facebook on the 21st June that the Post Office Vaults has closed down. https://www.facebook.com/povaults/?locale=en_GB

Found this wartime advert for Butlers Ltd - they merged with Lucas in 1948. Their "Atlantic Works" was in Grange Road, Small Heath. It occupied the block bounded by Grange Road, Hawkes Street and Baker Street. Started in 1911, their main business was lamps for motor vehicles but they had...

The RAF used them in the 1950s and into the early 60s. - Here's one preserved at the Newark aviation Museum... And another at the RAF Museum in London.

Were they perhaps Catholic? or "nonconformist"?- Until the Marriage Act of 1836, Catholic and nonconformist marriages were not considered "legal" in England. For a couple to be considered married they had to undergo a ceremony in an Anglican church, even if they had already had a wedding...

Bit of history of the site at the link below (albeit in irksome, super-positive "developer-speak"). The footpath through the middle of the site is meant to provide a pedestrian-friendly route for people walking from New Street station to the ICC. https://goodsstation.co.uk/find-out-more/

Here is Lord Ashcroft's message to the IWM (see link below) asking them to keep the medals on display. It seems they have agreed. I visited the medal Gallery only a few weeks ago and I must say they are displayed very well, with lots of interactive telling of the stories behind them...