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I think my mother went to an orphanage at Coleshill, where my Aunt Nell would visit her when possible. Aunt Nell was about 15, born 1903 so it would have been difficult for her to visit my mother.

I think Kellie is actually Nellie, my mother's older sister Ellen Powell

Interesting, William [Billy] Killed in Salonika 1918, James [Jimmy] Killed in France 1917 don't know of John and Kellie, Elizabeth or Lily seems correct. Thanks for your help

Elizabeth Ann Powell born 19 April 1908

My mother Elizabeth Ann Powell, her father was Edward Powell, and her mother Ellen Powell. Thanks

I've tried looking up the 1911 and 1921 census for my mother with no luck.

I had an uncle who worked at the Battery fo over 20 years.

When I was a student at Birmingham college of Art [Design and Illustration] we had lino and woodblock presses that were much older than the presses in the Science Museum

I've found a later Refuge Assurance Company for my mother aged 11 for 10 pounds and 7 pence in 1918. Both parents died of influenza in 1918 and my mother became an orphan.

The adress is 2 court 10, and the assurance company is the Refuge, the premium was one penny

Thank you very much, I came across a document for Pearl Assurance taken out for my mother at the age of 3. She lived at court 10 in Stoke Street.

Could anyone provide a map showing Stoke Street?

I left in 59, but I can't recall your father. Sorry.

Your father might have left the year before or the year after me.

I can't recall the surname, was you father keen on javelin throwng?

I tobogganed down Cope Street,after a heavy fall of snow, and finished at the botton hitting a lamp post.

I don't have any photographs, I left in 1959 can you tell me your fathers surname?

As soon as I seer the hills, I get Elgar's Allegro for Strings in my head. Possibly linked to Ken Russell's film on Elgar which you can get on YouTube.

As a child I often climbed up to Worcester Beacon, with my sister, we had an aunt who lived in Gordon Terrace on the southern end of the Malverns, Aunt Minnie lived in a two up two down house and had a huge mountain ash tree in her garden. On climbing the nearest hill we could see the beacon...

interior of St. Peters Church