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Thanks Ian. - In fact it was the redoubtable Kevan Darby that put us right about our Grandad's war record. He didn't talk at all about his time during WW1 and the assumption in the family was that he had been captured at Gallipoli. After he was featured in the Black Country Bugle about his time...

It was a good lecture last night - Thanks Ian. It was interesting to hear that the 9th Warwicks served with the ANZAC forces at Anzac Cove. - After the war my Grandad (Walter Gilbert, Service number 22906) was sent out to Australia by the Parkinson Stove company to help set up a new factory at...

Another interesting survival. As you come out of the city down the Alcester Road, as you pass the boundary between Balsall Heath and Moseley you might have noticed an imposing terrace of large houses on the left (east) side of the road that would not look out of place in Bath or London's...

And at the risk of straying slightly off topic (I promise I'll go no further!);) In the nearby Park Hill (called Park Hill Road in the 1889 O/S map) was a house called "The Lions" (on the very edge of the map) - It has now been renamed "The Grange" - But guess what - It has a magnificent pair...

An interesting survival is in the nearby Park Road. One of the houses on the 1889 O/S map is listed as "Perciville" on the map has a stone plaque on it with the name "Percy Villa". Edit: Added Address for lookup 9 Park Road, "Perciville".

Another group of plaques with added interest because they show the amazing growth of Birmingham in the 1880s -90s. They are all in an area North of Cannon Hill Park covered by the Ordnance Survey maps of 1888/1889 on the National Library of Scotland website - Here is one showing what was then...

Thats working now.. :) Cute mouse!

In "manage Videos" you should see the heading "Visibility" - Click on it and change it from "private" to "public".

Not seeing it at the moment I'm afraid Smudger - If you go back into your Youtube channel - go to "manage videos" and change the videos setting from "private" to "public" it should start working - You shouldn't need to post the link again. It should just start working.

Seeing Heneage Street pop up in the threads I thought I'd post my Father's (James Dell) recollections of it. They were bombed out of their house in Sunningdale Road in 1941 and moved to Heneage Street. We then moved to 91, Heneage Street, Ashted, Birmingham. The real reason for this I do not...

Indeed, -It's at the Village of Whitehills on the coast near Banff. But these knitted "postbox toppers" have been popping up all over, to mark occasions. They started off during Covid to thank the NHS. May Lane in Hollywood/Drakes Cross has had a succession of them in the last couple of years. I...

Great photos. It is the same place, as you say the "new" front portion is the front-of-office Post office, the rear brick building is now purely a delivery office where post vans pick up letters and parcels for delivery. My friendly postman tells me that only the most rudimentary "sorting" goes...

A cluster of plaques with dates at one end of George Arthur Road, nearest Alum Rock Road. 13-15 George Arthur Road, Vickerstaff Place, 1877 25-27 George Arthur Road, Woolwich Place, 1878 35-37 George Arthur Road, Ilkley Villas, 1890 At first glance it seems strange that there should be a gap...

Wow! That makes perfect sense now! I thought the plaque referred to the building it was on - but it is actually the building that is/was behind the building in some cases.

The first VHS and Betamax video recorders were sold in the UK in about 1978 - They were expensive and therefore quite rare until the early 1980s, but by 1985-86 the majority of family homes would have had one (often rented rather than purchased outright). In the 1970s there was a craze for...

Hi Viv - I wouldn't be so sure about the trees - The hi-res ordinance survey of 1886 shows Saltley to be mainly "ribbon development" - I'm guessing that all these "Villas" "places" and "Cottages" would have been on the edge of the country when they were originally built - all in turn then...

And a cluster of plaques in College Road, Saltley... 80 College Road, Ash Villa 82 College Road, Oak Villa 86 College Road, Holly Villa 88-90 College Road, Maple Villas 94-102 College Road, Ivy Villas (the plaque is obscured by a drainpipe running over the middle - but I can't think what else...

A Friday afternoon virtual walk around Saltley threw up the following plaques... Malthouse Lane 19-21 Malthouse Lane, Lime Tree Cottages Parkfield Road 1-7 Parkfield Road, Lillian Villas 2-6 Parkfield Road, Carlton Villas Bowyer Road 5-7 Bowyer Road, Eovesholm Villas (Eovesholm is...

Have edited the above. I found a better view of 162-164. I originally thought it read "Glenthorps" - but I can see now it's "Glenthorpe".

Alum Rock Road 78-80 Alum Rock Road, Holly Place 82-84 Alum Rock Road, Edith Place 86-88 Alum Rock Road, Compton Place, 1885 115-117 Alum Rock Road, Coomassie Villas (looked it up, it's a place in Ghana that gives its name to a blue dye) 151-153 Alum Rock Road, Mount Pleasant 155-157 Alum Rock...