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Yes, I remember when Mondays were washing days then Tuesday was for ironing etc.... or Wednesday if the washing was still drying on the clothes horse around the fire. Thank you for your help Covroad, Mikejee and oldMohawk. The maps and photos are super and show the houses had gardens too, not...

I wonder if I could ask a question, please. I have tried to find the right thread and forum but still am not sure that I have found it so please forgive me if I have got it wrong. My great, great grandfather, John Gossage born 1837 in one of the court houses in Bradford Street, moved with his...

No, you are right pmjburns. The sorting office or telephone exchange could have been a piece of land where my great grandfather, John Gossage (born 1862) kept a cow. That stretch of grass that is now a children's playround had houses on it so it couldn't have been there. My brother-in-law and...

I have just checked the 1891 Census. John Gossage and his wife Eliza with 4 children were living at 73 Middleton Road so I think that Grea may be right thinking that the piece of ground where John kept his cow must have been on the other side of Howard Road where the Telephone Exchange now...

Well done, Grea. Now why didn't I think of that? You could be right that it was opposite the back of the house. Thank you for that.

Well, he did because my grandfather told me that he remembered it too but I don't know how old he was at the time. Yes they lost Amy as a baby and then Ernest died of meningitis when he was 6 years old.

Thank you, devonjim, MWS, mikejee. What a surprise. I did wonder why such a large piece of ground stretched back from the Alcester Road when nearly every inch has been built upon. That probably ties in though with what happened in 1912. It was then that John Gossage must have suffered some...

My great grandfather, John Gossage (born 1862) married Eliza Burton and lived at No 4 Albert Road, Kings Heath which was a provisions shop with an off licence. There is a large piece of open ground on Alcester Road South between the corner of Albert Road and Howard Road. It has been open...

Indeed they could. I hadn't imagined that their work could be so precise and commercial. That is certainly a product of quality.

My grandfather, Frank Howard Gossage, who worked at Chamberlain & Hookham after leaving Central Secondary School, was visited and selected by whoever did these things was enlisted in the Army and sent out to France - he went to Ypres where he was shot in the arm so was unable to hold a shotgun...

That's excellent, thank you Stokkie.

Thank you!

I did wonder if there was a connection to the Chamberlain family. When did the business begin to trade?

Yes, I think it had to be alternating current. He wasn't there for very long because his father and my great grandfather uprooted the family from Albert Road in Kings Heath to take on a farm tenancy in 1915. I know nothing of what they produced but it sounds as though it was a well-established...

Sorry that I haven't been economical with the space but I am new at trying to manipulate and space photos online.

My grandfather was a pupil at the Central Secondary School in Suffolk Street (he was born in 1895). Following his time at the school when he played sports and athletics, he went to work at Chamberlain & Hookhams. I have a few photos of him there and two of them are now here. I hope they are...

Yes, Viv, but I can't unravel the information you have there except to say that my late grandfather (born 1895 died 1982) attended the school in Suffolk Street. I don't know if the CSS and CGS were independent of each other but the School Cup is silver plated (needs cleaning) and weighs a ton...

Thank you, everyone, for the individual snippets of information about the school. My late grandfather was a pupil there (he was born in 1895) and I have his sports cup for winning various sports events in 1911 and 1912. It has been very difficult to find the history of the school so I'm very...

My mother-in-law used to call them "Skinflints".