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Belgrave - do you mean us Brummies puting 2 'L' s in it? We do that with a lot of words - some I' best not mention - it's obviously our verbal 'eritage - like no 'H''s!!!!!!!!!

Key Hill Vaults - left hand edge near the sloping path behind the Petrol Stn. H14 on left, H13, H12, H11 on right - Vault Numbers are visible chalked above them but has now been washed off with rain. post 711 page 48

p36 pic 526 shows the cemetery as was - the bunch of trees in the centre (now gone) are where the semi circle of grass is in front of the h/G wall. It shows the main part of the section L catacomb wall with it's doorways.

Pic 366 shows the H/G headstones on the wall - the actual vaults are below the wall - the soil are are where the 950's publics are. Brian

Sorry Leslam, Judy, I knew there was a map and possibly pics on here somewhere - Usually Leslam knows where better than me - younger brain! I found it here on the Key Hill Cemetery thread, (this thread), No. 11 (Can't see a hash on my keyboard!). I'm sure there are pics as well - buried...

Wendy, According to my Church guide book (about 5+ years old now), there are 5 windows in the South Aisle - all 'bested viewed on a sunny day'. The last (5th) is the risen Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene on the first Easter morning. It was given in memory of George and Mary Paerks(?!) of...

Hi Judy, I no longer have all the papers I had when I was in the Friends, left them in the cemetery for those who followed on, but the Catacombs in Key Hill are, as you may recall, all in a long line at ground level (unlike WL where they are in a tiered horseshoe shape) - although the earlier...

Hi Rosie, Hope your Surgery was effective and not too much trouble. I only pop in occasionally nowadays if I'm passing and have time, but usually go through both and out the other end! Finally managed to work on my own family tree, using Ancestry and have gone wide as well as up/down, but not...

Hi Rosie, Virtually 3 whole rows were excavated - all graves were done within the affected area, and all remains cremated at Yardley, and returned for reburial above the Catacombs. Sadly the cheapskates went through the Grave Deed Register - which list the owners of graves, and should contain...

Maybe a misprint Lin - There was/is a Moillett St off Dudley Rd, just before Rotton Park Rd, but on the opposite side. Maybe a misprint Lin - There was/is a Moillett St off Dudley Rd, just before Rotton Park Rd, but on the opposite side. Bri

Smudge, Depending on where you are coming from - if it directs you via Witton /Outer Circle, you will see as you turn into Moor Lane that there is no exit that way. If so, when you finish in Cemetery aim for the Ridgeway Exit - exactly opposite entrance but up hill. Right turn out of Cemetery...

Plenty of parking in Witton, Smudge. Entrance in Moor Lane opposite the pub & Stonemasons yard, Office round to left with small car parking area. Main cemetery has plenty of roadways with room to park and still be passed, but potholes a plenty, so drive slowly! If it's been raining and they...

Looking at the rootsweb article - I wonder if the Obelisk is where 209 Gt King St was?

Looking at the rootsweb article - I wonder if the Obelisk is where 209 Gt King St was?

Lin - you have to remember that they obliterated Little King St, and even moved that section of Great King St - all to accommodate the Ring Road. Imagine from the white House - only a single lane N J St W, the depth of the houses than Little King St - It looked about right to me some years ago...

It must be in pics 2 & 3 of post no. 1 of this thread.

There is a stone obelisk on the site (approx.) of the factory - now an area of green space - no remnant of Little King St exists. It must have been on the left as you come from Gt King St toward Guest St, near the Gt King St end, if the siting of the obelisk is accurate.

There is a stone obelisk on the site (approx.) of the factory - now an area of green space - no remnant of Little King St exists. It must have been on the left as you come from Gt King St toward Guest St, near the Gt King St end, if the siting of the obelisk is accurate.

I should imagine he served in Montreal with the British forces that fought off an American Invasion of Canada in 1812 - whilst we were tied up fighting Napoleon's forces in Spain. That was the campaign where we burnt the original American White House - the one they have today is a replacement...

Often passed the place when working at Tyseley on B.R. end of '71 and through '72. when we went off in the gang lorry to wherever we had to work that day. Often saw a few chaps still hanging around in the hope of someone hiring them for the dy.