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Shera has kindly helped me to find John William Jeffries and his wife and children living at 10 Victoria Avenue, Glovers Road, Small Heath in 1911 census. Is it possible to trace them via kellys before and after 1911 please?

Do you have a JOHN WILLIAM JEFFRIES in your family tree? My John was born 1869 in Kings Norton and married ADA MARY LOCK 1891. John died in 1911 age 43yrs and ADA MARY JEFFRIES nee LOCK went to Canada with their 6 children. John has some conection with the LATCHFORD family via ADA...

Bernard, please pass my sympathies onto your daughter and thank her for loving Poppy and giving her a fantastic life. I understand only too well the pain she is going through. We are only loaned our beloved pets before they leave us for the "Rainbow Bridge" where hopefully we will meet them...

I meet my first husband over the phone when I worked at Telephone House and he was at RAF WYTHALL on the PBX. My now husband I meet when I was a barmaid in The Cock at Wishaw, he offered me a lift home and, as the story went we live happy ever after.

Liz, That would be Gloucester where the sea gull has chased the attendent for several years!! the best of it is.................. he saved the gull when it fell out of it's nest :rolleyes: The birds are going more inland because food is so easy to find with all the take away food that...

Di. this must be about the 6th or 7th year he has shown us the nesting material :rolleyes: But he never goes away he's here all the year round as several people feed him so why go looking for food when it's on tap at the local take-away!!! :P Another gull (Mr Baba) has taken up residence on...

Mr C. Gull is "house" building and is asking our approval of the materials he is using :P

Blacksmith, I am so sorry to read about the lose of your beloved Bobby. All pets are precious to their loving owners and, having lost our 2 darling cats last October, I can really understand the pain you are going through now. I am sure you are right when you say Bobby came to say his...

Now dig those '60's sun glasses and that hat :P

Lynn, it doen't look as if things have changed that much. It looks as if we were on the same camp site only 40 years apart!!

This photo was taken when my ex and I took our first 2 sons on holiday to Borth in 1963. They loved this little train and so did I :P.

The answer is....................... all oldies to wear the same clothes as these "fashion nerds"!!!!! That'll make 'em change :D

Yes it was little white flowers Elizabeth and "princess line" and mini

This dress that I am wearing came from Van Allen it was navy blue with white trimming. I felt the bees knees when I wore it on this day trip to Weston with my young sons. I think I bought it in Cheltenham when I was living there. (cant be sure of that the old grey cells are a little greyer...

Gosh........... just think.......... we only washed our hair once aweek!!! The young would through their hands up in horror if that was the case now- a- days. I remember the Derbac soap and comb.

I have just finished reading "The Hunger" by Carol Drinkwater. A very good book written in the style of a diary by a young Irish girl in 1845. There are several books in the "My Story" series that take the form of diaries...........I am now on the lookout for more. (there are 25 "girls" books...

Yes Ray, I remember the place well. I hung onto my "Diamonds" for quite a few years. I think the "dump" was behind a nursery (children's) off Garrets Green Lane. I lived in Duncroft Road

My husbands half brother was sent over to Australia at the age of 11 in 1934. (His parents were divorced). His father knew nothing of him going until the day of his departure when he dashed down to Southampton to wave him goodbye, he never saw his son again. My husband was born 10yrs later...

Falmouth???

I had to teach my younger brother the Lords Prayer when he was about 3 or 4. We progressed ok until the end when he asked "Why do we have to have our David's bread"!! Our David being our elder brother !!!!!!!!!!!!