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My daughter and son-in-law have just spent Sunday turning out my garage for me and have come across an old spirit level made by John Rabone & Sons (Warranty corrected) in its old soft metal storage tube (cap missing). It's a lovely piece of work, if old and dirty and much better workmanship...

Steve, I'm sorry that this is 11 years on from your post but I have just read it and wanted to say that John Crathorn b1774 in Handsworth married Elizabeth Parkes and had a daughter, Hannah Crathorn, born in 1813 in Kings Heath. She then married John Gossage in 1833, giving birth to John on 7...

I have struggled to find out much more about William Gossage (licensed victualler at Kings Arms in Moore's Row) and his family. His daughter, Hannah, became pregnant in 1811 (I think as baby born 6th April 1812 (baptised St Martin's) but not married. She was born in March 1794 (also baptised...

Thank you for posting this. My grandfather was a pupil at the Central Secondary School in Suffolk Street and I have the school sports cup he won for running and the long jump in 1911/12. I have tried everywhere to find information about the school but didn't realise it ended up in Gressel...

Thank you for that, mikejee. It's a lovely map which I find fascinating.

Thank you so much for this Phil. If you read my recent post to mikejee you will see what I have been up to for the last 6 years when I placed a post for help about More's Row. I gather from other research I did recently that it couldn't have been a very nice area because Floodgate St was home...

Thank you so much for this mikejee. I am afraid that I didn't get back to the forum for your response and apologise for leaving it so long - 6 years. I have a benign, inoperable brain tumour which was discovered in 2005. From 2012 I was kept busy with my very elderly parents. I kept my...

Thank you, mikejee. I do find the change of names so confusing. I have been trying to compare your 1839 map with A-Z but, of course, that is heavily overlaid with Smallbrook Queensway and others. I will certainly click on your link. Thank you so much for your reply.

mikejee, please forgive me for butting in like this - several years after you posted this - but I am looking at what is Worcester Street on the right hand side of the map, going up past the New Market Place. What would this be called today, please? I thought it would be Livery Street as it...

Hi old Mohawk! Thank you so much. I remember now about the damage caused by the hacking and I am very grateful that you did so much to save the photos. Thank you for the link and all of your hard work. It is much appreciated. Best wishes Flossie

Sorry to be a pest but how do I "open" the pictures to see them, please? Best wishes Flossie

Hi Christy! I can't remember the name of the owners but do remember that it belonged to a Jewish company because shops could not open on Sundays then, unless they were of such a faith - ie Sunday was not their Sabbath. I remember going there and still have a mirror I bought in the early 70s...

Hi Steve! I think you had the best time in the 60/70s before everything changed beyond recognition. From what you say everyone would have a fit these days to read how you spent the time out of school. But that's what children did then and it was safe to be just children. Though I don't know...

Wow! That was great, thank you. I never realised how far the Rea went and had no idea it was connected to the brooks in the photos. Thank you!

Sorry to be such a "newbie" but How do you open "attached thumbnails"? I have tried every which way without luck. Help, please!

Lloyd, that's really great.Thank you. When you see part of a river, you never think about where it starts, ends and the places it passes through. I really enjoyed those pics and have learned something new. Thank you. No, it's not as rural as it used to be but it looks like it still passes...

Re: The king's arms, moor(e)'s row, off floodgate and near milk sts in digbeth/derite Thanks for your reply. Archives & Heritage do have a mention of the pub but no picture or any further details other than the possible age. They were able to tell me where in Moor(e)'s Row it was and the...

Re: The king's arms, moor(e)'s row, off floodgate and near milk sts in digbeth/derite Phil Thank you so much for finding that. It looks very sad now but I suppose at the end of the 1700s and beginning of the 1800s it could have been quite the place for the locals to go. I am very grateful...

I wonder if anyone on the Forum knows of a pub that used to be in Moor(e)'s Row in Deritend/Digbeth areas. My ancestor, William Gossage, was victualler of food and drink there for over 20 years from the end of the 18th century. It wasn't a very wholesome place as the district was home to...