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My grandparents ran a cafe opposite Birmingham Mint, and it was where bus drivers had to stamp a time clock. My grandad Sydney Tibbatts did a thriving trade supplying the drivers with tea, which he would do by going out to the drivers, collecting their cans, and taking them into the cafe to fill...

If anyone would be able to restore this photo of Dowell's Retreat almshouses I would be very grateful. It's likely the elderly ladies would be in black clothes as most of them were widows. The girl in white is my great aunt.

Two photos of Dowell's Retreat almshouses in Warner Street, Bordesley. The first by William A Clark in 1932 is held by Birmingham Archive: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/directory_record/112061/dowells_retreat I attach another which shows my great aunt Rose Emily Bennett (in white) standing...

I'm trying to solve a mystery - some medals were discovered by my relative hidden at 27 Daniels Road, Bordesley Green. They were awarded to a George Horton for service in the Boer War and WW1, but strangely, he lived at 32, not 27. A couple called Thomas and Minnie Wauman lived at 27. I think...

My grandparents Sydney and Irene Tibbatts ran a cafe with a dining room upstairs in Icknield Street, Hockley in the 1960s. Does anyone have any info, memories, photos?

My mom was born in 1941 during an air raid in the basement of a small private nursing home in Acocks Green (described as 'a house' - it had a piano!). Does anyone know where it might have been?

Years ago a relative moved into a house in Daniels Road, Bordesley Green. She found hidden a box belonging to a George Horton. I believe he was probably Scottish. Does anyone know any descendents?