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That would be after the war then obviously. Did I ever get the photo/s to you?

My dad fell in a pit. He was accident prone. We have a pit in our garage here at home, it has been covered over with hardboard , the girls' grandad put sand in when they were little , in case, as it had oil and rainwater in but you can't stand on it. I am assuming the then owners did up cars...

This reminds me of 3 little garages near me in Coventry. One became a carpet warehouse, another the office part is a thriving café, the third is now flats. One used to have 2 pumps the other 2 just one. I can't remember the petrol but it was obscure. I think one had a purple logo.

I googled Loveday Hospital, it appears on a different Birmingham History site, it says it was for difficult births. Lahai Ro was not a hospital as far as I am aware, no babies were delivered there.

If you Google Norcap Contact Register, their records have been taken over by Family Action's PAC UK. They will know someone who can assist you.

It won't work never mind

Yes indeed. Our barmy neighbour (see my gardening posts) had the remaining one when he moved here. Our houses used to be one we were told there were 4 gas lamps and our 2 are in the cellar but we are unsure or intrepid to discover where the entrance might be. He had one still when he moved in...

The man who turned our gas lamps out and re lit them had Downs Syndrome, he wore a bowler hat. I wasn't quite 4. My memory goes back a long way, not like now. Mum used to say here comes the little lamp lighter, I am recalling the hymn now, 'when lamps were lighted in the town and boats put out...

Now they are for hanging baskets

They don't seem to have many originals left and with each expensive city revamp, they move them. Off I go again, I remember a district in Dublin, I think unoficially called the Five Lamps , I wanted to go and my mate said no it's too rough especially with my accent, but I had learned to keep...

Wasn't there a song with a lyric in it "Fish paste, momma" sung by a man ?

Just an observation. They have some reproduction gas lamps in Coventry which bend in half to be cleaned or bulbs replaced. I remember them as a small child and a man climbed the ladder to get at them.

I was able to obtain Birth Certificates from Gro Gov they gave me an account number as I ordered many. It was to establish I was who I was and my immediate birth families were large. As it was I did not use any professional bodies, I was helped by adoptees who belonged to Norcap which is no...

I assume your mother's birth surname was on the Adoption record. The records will be somewhere, I would think where the people who adopted her lived as mine were, and not from where I was adopted.

I recall one of my earliest memories, the milkman's horse was white, mum gave used to give him a carrot . Circa1961. The flower cart horse was skewbald and the rag and bone man's horse was a fine beast. Chocolate brown cob with lots of feathering. He always picked his feet up. They were a Romany...

I was trying to see the name on the float it may have been the Co Op.

I don't suppose this is any better. The lorry didn't sowmdown either but the horse was not bothered

I have a photo I will try and post later, how old is old? This would be probably 1973 in Dublin, my friend's granny with who I used to stay had the vegetables delivered. They were expensive but she felt sorry for the vegetable man! She would buy 2 stone of potatoes he put them in her bucket. His...

I posted before somewhere but Nan remembers a horse collapsing and dieing in the street. It stayed with her. she was a little girl and cried all the way home. If she saw a white horse she would spit on her foot for luck as they were a rare site. She remembers the pony having a good job he pulled...