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I am trying to locate ancestors of Robert E Sill. He married Iris Bullock in the Dec qtr 1949 in Birmingham and died 27th July 1997. He was a Police Constable and I have the 1911 census of what is possibly his father, another Robert Sill, also a Ploiceman b1883 in Westmorland, living in...

Great pic Peter. I wonder what's the weighing machine for? Probably to check Frothy going in and coming out to see how much ale he's supped!

Hi jennyann, yes I was pleased. Also I had a long chat with the Reverand Freda Evans who was extremely helpful. She's since emailed me to say that they hope to invite families to visit the graves on Sat 16th April.

I went to St Barnabus yesterday and found that the whole of the area is now fenced off. I still managed to get to see that my Grandmother and Grandad's grave is OK and won't be affected by the building work. I was worried at first because the big fir tree the grave is next to wasn't visible and...

Cheers Chris, see you at the Lad soon. In fact I'm meeting a mate there before tonight's game.

My maternal Grandfather and Grandmother are buried on the High St side of the church just inside the builders' boards and I was concerned looking at the plans that theirs could be one of those affected by the re-building. Looking at post #60 by Jennyann where an appendix names the graves which...

Just noticed this thread. Litherland is a name in my Uncle's tree on which I'm working. Thought I'd post this PDF in case some of them fit.

David, you seem to have got all the names, initials and nicknames. Fraid I can't add anything. :-(

Hi again Amanda, I put this up a couple of years ago. My Uncle told me the names he could remember, probably from about the 50s. Apologies if any are misspelt!

Johnny, thanks for putting me right on Reddings butchers. Fancy you "doing it" when only 12. The kids of today would be proud of you! Amanda, sorry the only other pictures I have are my Mom & Dad and Nan and Grandad in our back gardens - 161, 181 and 183.

Hi Johnny, I was at BGTS from 1957 to 1964. I'm afraid my memories of Erdington Hall only revolve around Georgina Redding and Margaret Coley (spelling?). I took Georgina ice skating a couple of times but it sadly came to nothing. I'm sure her Dad had 2 butchers shops, one on the corner of...

Blimey Aiden, the little bloke between the Shields looks like he's wearing a crocheted cap!

Although this has been discussed before, I thought I'd put this map up. It nicely shows the extent of Corporation St's push through what was then slums stretching from New St to what is now Lancaster Circus. It's from a book "History of Birmingham" by Conrad Gill and Charles Grant Robertson...

Before the B'ham to Oxford section was open I regularly drove down to London on business. I used to go via Banbury to get to the start at Oxford and found a great shortcut to avoid Banbury town. I now live 1 road off that route! Scarey.

Johnny, thanks for that! Fancy you remembering my Dad's car! Also you played for BGTS a few years earlier than me. AND it seems that Chris went to Erdington Hall like me. Where were you living then?

Thanks ragga for that last pic. Great detail when it's enlarged.

Just realised that I have a similar picture of my Mom. The date on the back of my Aunt's pic is June 1932 so that makes my Mom 12 in this picture and my Aunt 6. They are both sitting on the same chair with the same background so it's reasonable to assume that my Nan took them to the studio on...

dek, it's Kingston Hill Rec. that was replaced with new housing. Ragga, thanks for such a great shot of the hallowed ground, now can you tell me who was playing please. :-))

Thanks folks for the feedback. Jean, I agree with you. At our last house when the man died his son had a skip and one day I saw lots of photo albums! As he was in Stratford and the daughter in the USA I took them out and emailed the daughter. She didn't want them either! What a shame. There were...

I'm sorting through a few photo albums from my uncle's house before it gets cleared (both he and my aunt are in a care home now) and I'm finding lots of lovely old photos I've never seen before. Here are 2 of my aunt who was my mom's sister. Hope you like.