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Does anyone on here remember the official opening of King George V playing field on 17th April 1958? the papaers reported that there were '5 football pitches, four cricket pitches, a children's playing area, a car park and administrative buildings'. Were these on the King George's field or...

My grandparents, George Arthur Watkins and Clara Brett, both went to the Art School some time between about 1900 and 1911. They married in 1911. I wonder whwther there are archives with records of old students?

Thank you but I've already seen these. Unfortunately although the wood is shown on the 1950 OS map this could well be based on a prepared survey and so far nobody has come forward who remembers the wood being there. If it was there in 1950 probably someone living would remember it.

The Friends of King George V Playing Field are trying to document the history of the field , particularly since the beginning of WW2. There are now two separate areas, the King George V Playing Field and Cooksey Lane field with a locked gate between them. Both of them existed before the war...

Thanks for that, Mikejee. All I know is that he died in 1890 in Aston Union Workhouse infirmary of 'paralysis'. In 1881 he was only 52 so maybe he had a stroke. By 1891 his wife was living with her daughter, my g-grandmother, who was widowed the same year in a back to back in Handsworth and...

There's another Calthorpe Arms, at 135 Wellington Road, Handsworth. My g-grandfather was the first landlord, from some time in the 1890s until at least 1921. The pub is still there.

My g-g-grandfather, Thomas Stevens, was a cordwainer (bootmaker) and on the 1861, 71 and 81 census lived at 125 Lozells Road. He died in Aston Manor in 1890. Looks as though the shop remained a shoe shop for a considerable time. I just looked at the 1891 census on line but the numbers aren't...