• Welcome to this forum . We are a worldwide group with a common interest in Birmingham and its history. While here, please follow a few simple rules. We ask that you respect other members, thank those who have helped you and please keep your contributions on-topic with the thread.

    We do hope you enjoy your visit. BHF Admin Team

Search results

  1. OtherHalf

    discharge papers

    Hi all thanks to a members help now have discharge papers for Ernest Hadfield.... like most things it sheds some light on the subject but also raises a couple of questions ...at the top of the page there is an official stamp dated sep 27 1914 ? just below is another stamp dated 5 oct 1915 ?any...
  2. OtherHalf

    postcards from the war front

    Got these today from Maggies sister Heather of her Grandads some postcards from France:)
  3. OtherHalf

    Wounded

    just watched Wounded A BBC documentary that tells of two soldiers severely wounded and is emotional but a story of courage and endurance that applies to so many servicemen over the years well worth watching but have your hankies ready :cry:
  4. OtherHalf

    on this day

    On this day 17th September 1944 the allies began the Airborne Invasion of Holland https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/17/newsid_3662000/3662264.stm
  5. OtherHalf

    UB 40 ..look back at recession

    looking back at recession in Birmingham 1981 with UB40 ?? https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8197440.stm
  6. OtherHalf

    hello to new member

    just saying hello to a new member megrandadwelcome to the forum :)
  7. OtherHalf

    St Leonards Frankley

    over the next couple of days we will be visiting here does anybody need any info re graves or church etc seems as though I am being whisked off on another jaunt again lol:rolleyes:
  8. OtherHalf

    Preedy Alfred Tobacconist

    While out as usual looking round Cemeteries with my darling wife who takes delight in this sort of thing lol we came across this (picture attached) it is the resting place of several Preedys in St Thomas Dudley normally I just pass by (cause I am looking for something else) but while I was...
  9. OtherHalf

    old car snaps

    Here are a few snaps I took while out today at kidderminster Station it was a sixties transport event
  10. OtherHalf

    posted again

    Have posted this elsewhere and may have been off topic so apologise for that seen this thread and saw lloyds link on the E83 my dad had one late fifties used it to go to work etc as he did a bit of travelling luton mainly One night I sneaked the keys and crept out of the house I was 10 yrs old...
  11. OtherHalf

    Online site: Transport : Nick Baldwin Collection

    This collection is worth looking round, some amazing pictures from Everywhere:D
  12. OtherHalf

    Car registration numbers

    just going through some threads on cars and reminded of two old regisration marks of cars I owned one was 216 R W on a wolseley 1500 which I bought from a fitter in Ansells boiler house and the other again a 1500 was 9219 U E cant remember where that one came from but the reg nos stayed with me...
  13. OtherHalf

    ww2 behind closed doors

    I Have been watching BBC2 programme ww2 behind closed doors which is a series of programmes in relation to events during and after the war apart from real footage it gives an insight into meetings of political figures etc by recreating these events well worth watching:)
  14. OtherHalf

    Weoley Cinema

    As a child I spent many a happy hour at the weoley cinema on Barnes hill does anyone know of it!
Back
Top