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    Bloore/Blewer family

    Hey, does anyone have any information about the Bloor/Bloore family that later became the Blewers? All I really know is it was a Staffordshire surname originally and the family later moved to Brum, and an ancestor was illiterate so the surname changed from Bloor to Blewer. My grandad had...
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    Round the Wrekin

    How common is the phrase around Brum and outside of it? My mom says it all the time to refer to going somewhere far away. "I ain't going to Brum to pick up your cousins, it's round the Wrekin!" and I'd used it before, but outside of Aberystwyth where there's loads of people from the West...
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