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Can anyone help please in the search for LILIAN JESSIE SMITH........... I know the dreaded SMITH!!!! sorry. She was born in Southwark London in 1880 to parents JEMIMA (nee ANCIENT) & Thomas Smith. We have traced her, via the census & baptism to 1891 when she is listed as age 10 living with her...

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Re: Lost m h pitts cheltenam Hi Astonian, a JOSEPH PITTS built the gates to PITTVILLE LAWN in Cheltenham so maybe your H.J. PITTS is a descendant of him. 53 The Promanade is the Council offices of Cheltenham so maybe H.J. Pitts worked there?

Love reading the "news" from the Birmingham Post. Lucky you Wendy :friendly_wink: My lot were bedstead makers so they proberbly appeared in the newspapers at sometime, I know there was a piece about a Lenoard Bott who drowned in a canal in Birmingham age 16years old. Please do carry on posting...

Thank you all for your replies. The pub was still selling beer in the early 40's as my friend recalls going to see her grandfather when she was small but by then she thinks it was just an outdoor. Godfrey was her Grandfather. Thank you all again.

Does anyone have a picture of the Queens's Head 208 Great Lister Street please? I am helping a friend with her family history and her Grandfather had this pub. I know she would be delighted if I could come up with a picture of the pub. Many thanks :)

Sorry for the late aknowledgement of your reply ladylinda. thank you very much for what you have found it will be a great help

I have just found out that a distant Great Uncle, Joseph Taylor Bott died as a prisoner of war in Lager Lazarette Crossen 11/04/1918 & is buried in Berlin South Western Cemetery Stahnsdorf Germany. He died from Tetanus (he was in RNVR DRAKE). He lived at 9 Green Lane Terace Small Heath with his...

What sad news. Rod was so helpful to me when I first joined the forum as I had never been on a forum before. RIP Rod and thank you so much, I send my love & blessings to your family.

I saw that episode too I think that,s what amde me ferret them out & then I saw the name. I remember my Mother using the sugar-water & the wave grips. By the way is 'wave grips' the correct name for these 'evil' looking things .

Thank you both very much for your replies. Now i can be content in putting them safely away for anotheer generation to peruse over but this time I will put a little note with them to say who manufactured them in the "olden days" Thanks again for your help xx

"Phyllison Fortifies The Over Forties". Did it ever work? If so I need some now :redface: pleeeeeze. I think that faded away years ago.

Thank you mikejee for your time & answer. I can just make out the word MANNEQUIN above the J.R.L BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND, would there be such a firm with that name? As our city was famous for being a place of many trades I think they were made there :)) They were the sought of thing that would have...

I have been sorting out things in the loft & have come across some old fashion wave grips from the war years, they may have been my Mothers or even Grandmothers. I can just make out the makers name J.R.L BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND. Can anyone tell me about the makers please. Thank you.

No it was not the Lake District Sue, it was a big house in Blackwell Bromsgrove. I believe t could be seen from the train as it went up the 'Licky Bank'

My brother was evacuated to Blackwell during the war ............. is there anyone else who went there? Are there any photos please?

Great pictures Lyn thank you so much for sharing them. My Great Aunt lived in such a house at the back of Aston Hippadrome and I remember well how 'rough' it looked from the outside but it was a little palace inside, the range shone with her hard rubbing of the Zebo and her whites were so white...

I am loving these old street photographs and I thank all who have put them here. I am really looking forward to seeing more. The one thing that sticks out to me is how litter free the streets are.......... was it because we were taught to take our sweet papers and rubbish home with us or is...

Oh John!........I too was a monitor at the Empress Sutton & I agree yes the best part was getting in free :o))