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Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Hi Steve, Look closely Henry is using a wheelbarrow as chair. Len.

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Good Morning dottieau, Thank you for your interest, when the photos were taken few people had cameras so the photos are a revalation to me they take me back 73yrs to my childhood days and i hope there will more to come, i have more memories of my life and our...

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Steve, I have studied this pic and from the position of Henry`s left foot i think he is wearing his false leg what year was this pic taken, do you know?. Len.

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Steve, expect the bailiffs "tuit suit" hide the piano!!. Len.

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Morning Steve, This my Mom Jessie Emma Copsey who with the help of out of work carpenters who lived in Charles Edward Rd converted the front room into a shop usually called a "Hucksters shop" she sold nearly every grocery product you can think of the young pic was...

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Steve, Yes very familiar but much younger than i remember, i always remember Mrs.Goode as not being any taller than me when i was 8yrs and she always had her hair in a tight bun on the high back of her head, she wore a black blouse & skirt down to her ankles, she...

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Steve, I have no knowledge of their former address but the locatiom looks as though i should know it. Len.

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Robert, Emily Rd was named after the builders daughter, Gladstone after the politician and Warwell after a well said to have been used by soidiers in the Civil War, the builder wanted to name Chas Ed Rd after himself Charles Edward Lane but Brum Corporation...

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Good Morning Steve, You say i brought a smile to your face, the info you posted astonished me! in that my childhood was brought back, there was Mom & Dad and 3 daughters and 4 brothers living in No3, i am the last born in 1929 i have a Sister Kathleen who is 96yrs...

Re: William Henry Goode b.1865 Steve, Do you know who owned the m/cycle and what make was it Please? Len.

In 1954 Kieft started to make a two seater sports car which could also be used as a road car. Using a Coventry Climax FWA engine, all independent suspension using transverse leaf springs at the rear and a lightweight glass fibre body the car was really a racing car and at £1560 it is...

Hi Steve, Re the photo of Helen & Mabel sitting on the m/cycle this is Not in the garden of No1 we only had very small gardens, from the back of our terraced house was the back door and the length of the scullery (kitchen) approx 10-15ft next the brick built coalhouse & WC both with doors about...

Mr, Goode made his own artificial leg in his small shed in the garden it was hinged at the knee & ankle and was polished, this was after WW1 when any one who had lost a leg just had a wooden peg leg, i was born in 1929. Len.

I remember Browns Nursery (Market Garden) in Sheaf Lane it was between the tyre fitters and the Dentists?, i ran errands for Mrs Goode her Co-op number was 2008, they made beer & wine and when it was cold weather she would give me a glass of parsnip wine it was nectar it landed in my stomach and...

I lived at No3, Charles Edward Rd, our neighbours in No1 Charles Edward Rd were a family by the name of Mr & Mrs.Goode who had 2 daughters, Mr. Goode had only 1 leg due to an accident when he worked on the Corporation trams, the houses down to No23 were demolished circa 1966. Len.

Percy Cockrill Bojalu, Could you do a family lookup Please. Len. Percy Cockrill, married 26/09/1926 at St Bartholmew Church, lived in Resevoir Terrace, Aston, my friend who is a G/Son has not got a computer. Len

Flashback returns to Birmingham Q Club after 10-year break report. With Thanks to the Birmingham Mail. Len. Sep 10 2010 by William Oliphant, Birmingham Mail...

1968 English Electric Co taken over by GEC. 1970 Although the works still produced diesel engines under the name Ruston Paxman Diesels, which operation had been moved from Lincoln, locomotive manufacture finished in 1970. Output was mainly for marine and stationary applications, but the...

But the price Aidan, was it 1/7d a quarter or half/pound. Len

Barrows Enameled wall sign. Cheers Len.