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Hi Mike Have just found this thread you started with the advert for the Bull. Love it and have saved it to my family history info, so many thanks for that! Interesting to see that the secretary was Henry Fulford from the Vine pub. As you know, Lynn has recently compiled a list of landlords...

Thank you finding the picture. My sister worked there firstly as office junior and then in the accounts dept 1961 to 1967. She remembers the company director Mr Claridge as a very nice person, good with the staff. They moved offices to the other side of the road in a new building in 1961...

hi do you have any pics of electromagnets office/factory Bond street?

Hi Lynn Thank you for the info. According to my family history, Walter Showell was Josephs 5th child and died in 1835 a few months after his father. Eliza Ann nee Breakspear was his wife, she was the daughter of John Breakspear, victualler of various pubs in Hertfordshire and closely connected...

Hi Mike Thank you for that. I have been looking at the electoral roll on ancestry.com, are the newer ones on another site?

A big thank you to everyone for your warm welcome to the forum for a newbie! I have passed the photos of the crosskeys and eagle pubs to my older sisters because I was only little at the time, waiting for their replies. My mum and dad were George and Dora Edwards. The last I see of them is on...

Thank you for the photo - I have put it out to the family to see if stirs memories! the Eagle pub was only 'The Eagle'. Not sure if it was near the 'Swan' factory? Surely within the smell of the sauce factory!

Hi Lynn Have had a quick search through your photos of old Birmingham - loved it! My dad was the licensee of the 'Crosskeys' and the 'Eagle' pubs, probably 1960's. I think the first pub was near the bull ring and all I remember is the smell of the brown sauce factory for the Eagle. Mom and dad...

I was born in Inkerman street in 1957. Does anyone remember the Edwards family in the street at that time? My mum was Dora and Dad was George (ex navy), I think he worked for the gas works? My sisters are Janice, Carole and Jacqueline (Jacky)

Hi - does anyone have any information on James Frederick Edwards (1876-1933) who married Rosina Showell (1896-1959). His father was Samuel Edwards and I think his mother was Elizabeth Birch but have yet to prove that. Family history has it that James went into a London workhouse as an orphan...