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I have just discovered that a cousin of my father was born at The Pig Market, Bordesley Street in 1893. William Henry Fisher, parents James Arthur and Charlotte Fisher (nee Hunt) (just in case someone is related !) but how come they would give their address as living at the Pig Market ? On...

Does anyone have any memories of E. J. Willis greengrocer ? I am typing up my father's memories (he hand wrote them many years ago, and is long dead now). I think it would be about 1930 - this is something I have just typed : Mr Willis then had a greengrocery shop built in the Bull Ring...

Can anyone identify this photo please, where it might have been taken and possible time - 1900's ? A family contact in Australia has sent me some old family photographs of our mutual family who lived in Birmingham, hoping I can identify them. The wooden railings look typical of what would have...

I wonder if anyone can help with providing me with a copy of a map I had once which showed the site of all bombs which fell on Birmingham. Cannot remember if it was over a particular period or through the whole time of the war. It showed the street names and extended out as far as Kings...

I wonder if anyone has a photo of these shops around the time my father started to work there as Manager of the Greengrocery shop in 1949 / 1950 or perhaps later over the following 15 years ? I am re-doing my parents 50th anniversary book for the rest of the family (both parents now dead)...

I am new to this site and am not sure how to post a query or question - so please re-direct me if this is not it ! I wonder if anyone has photographs of the following : Whites Removals in Oliver Street, Birmingham - their vans or premises - 1935 - 1945 time....... I am putting together a...

My mother used to say something which sounded like 'oil-tot', used for example in : 'Jimmy is in his oil-tot playing in that water'. So it meant something like a person really enjoying what they were doing. I have never heard it used by anyone else or anywhere else and have often wondered...

I have posted two entries under surnames A and T (for Aston and Twist) searching for information on my g.grandfather who was known as William Aston but it was then discovered some years ago, he had changed his name in 1868 from Twist, although I know believe he was Aston originally. However...

I am a recent registered member to this website / Forum so hope you will make allowance if I do not post correctly / appropriately. I have been trying to establish where my great grandfather fits into my FT for more than 30years but although I have made huge progress in some areas, I still do...