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A couple more images of the book which will appeal to lovers of art and lawn tennis alike.

Some images of the Barber Institute's Court on Canvas book which will be available from Friday 27th May when the exhibition opens.

The Sally Ann has premises still on Bath Street, amusingly between the Catholic cathedral and the pub!

We're awaiting news of progress on the application for a Bishop's Faculty. In the meantime we're raising funds towards the cost of the eventual erection of a memorial on Gem's grave. Also we are seeking donations towards the cost of much needed conservation of the Gem Scrapbook held in the...

This sequence of photos is intended to show the work done in clearing the area in Warstone Lane Cemetery near Harry Gem's grave. First two on left taken in September last year, the third in October after the Council team had been in to tidy up. The right hand two taken last weekend show the...

The Friends are unearthing masses of bottles and stacking them ready for recycling.

Thanks Brian. My understanding is that a team of council workers did some clearance of the area around the grave to facilitate visitor access after I'd spoken to Mike Whitby's office in September last? I know that the Friends have put enormous efforts into transforming that area recently. I went...

You can follow The Harry Gem Project on Twitter too at https://twitter.com/MjrGemHeadstone

The Harry Gem Project's web site is up and running at www.theharrygemproject.co.uk

There's an exhibition coming up in May at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts which is the first ever to explore the subject of lawn tennis in art. It will feature also a large collection of lawn tennis artefacts, so there will be plenty to interest lovers of lawn tennis. The publication of a...

Just to let everyone know that I have formed The Harry Gem Project, a not-for-profit group dedicated to promoting this aspect of Birmingham's heritage and, in particular, Major Gem's leading role as a founding father of the sport of lawn tennis. One of the goals of The Project is to see that...

As far as I am aware St Paul's, Hamstead or at least the original church, which the current one replaced, doesn't predate 1865?

Is that St Pauls up by the Scott Arms?

https://www.birminghampost.net/multimedia/news/video/2010/09/07/open-day-at-the-birmingham-birthplace-of-lawn-tennis-65233-27221782/ Recent press items about Harry Gem and Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society. Far left from Daily Telegraph 6th September 2010, middle from Birmingham Post...

Paul, I'm told that my father suffered nightmares for some number of years after the war. He died young, aged 41, of Leukaemia. I've often wondered whether the stress of his war experience was a contributory factor.

Probably was the Lancastria as she sank on 178th June. As far as I know my father was on the last boat out of Cherbourg on 19th June, my research suggests the boat sailed at 4.00pm. I don't know where they landed. Portsmouth would have been nearest but as he ended up at a camp in Yelverton it...

Rachel, for more information you could contact/visit the Royal Warwickshire Regimental Museum in Warwick.

My father was a lieutenant with the Royal Warwicks based in northern France as part of Vickforce charged with holding a line along the River Bethune south of Dieppe. This they did between 19th May and 8th June 1940, some five days after the completion of the Dunkirk evacuation. They then...

Just in the interests of accuracy: since the Blue Plaque was erected it has been established that the first lawn tennis experiments occured in 1859 not 1865 as marked on the plaque.

Everything I've read suggests a short life for this racquets club. Never mind, its most important role was to bring Gem and Perera together with the common aim of developing an outdoor rackets game.