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Yeah, my Mom seemed to think that there was a massive factory making guns next to the BSA in the war years, but I couldn't find anything. Her Grandad had just finished shift when they were bombed and spent the remaining years of his working life there. Her Mom worked for Parker-Hale for many...

It is. It has metal screw ridges inside.

I was in the archives yesterday looking at Benjamin Stones diaries. He threw a big garden party for the workers, about 500 were there, including presumably family etc. thought it was quite nice really.

I have photos of a place called fordrough, but assumed it was over by moor end lane. Perhaps there were a few places locally with that name. The Golden Cross was a marker for some of the houses on the 1901 census, as the road must have been a bit hit and miss up that end. Don't think we got...

I know this is an old chanel, but does anyone have any information on the pool that used to be off near Turfpits Lane? In the area where Dovedale is now. On the maps since the 1800s it disappears at some point in the 1930s to 1940s, guessing when the build Perry Common.

So that's what the concrete is? I walk the dog through there and wondered what it was for, not being able to work out how cars would travel from the small car park. It never occured to me that they would remove a playground

Yes, I think there are other documents supporting the Chad Valley connection. The logo with the valley and the brook must have been what it looked like in the very early days of the business / factory!

Thanks Lady P, that's amazing! Really interesting to see the house in situ without the infill/Court Farm development surrounding it. It's hard to imagine the setting when you only know the site as a fenced off plot. That's really brilliant :)

Oh, I can't remember seeing it. Yes, I live very close to Leaholme, or the patch where it used to be, it's very interesting. The Erdington one that is, there are a few jotted around the West Midlands - seems the Leesons named several houses Leaholme!

Thank you so much, I totally forgot to look at Staffordshire news articles, forgetting there lots more papers in those days. You've given me loads more to look at!!!

Thanks Lady Penelope, that's really helpful. I'm itching to get back into the library, I have a long list of stuff to read up on! My interest is a little weird, I am looking into Arthur John Leeson, who lived at Leaholme on Short Heath Road. He was a photographer friend of Benjamin Stone. He...

Lady Penelope, can you confirm the book you are referencing please? It looks like it would be of use in my research. Thanks!

Not sure if anyone is still watching this feed. I believe the building was designed by A Edgerton Leeson and the commission was as a result of a competition. Still trying to track down evidence for that and information about the competition. The original intention was for a museum commemorating...

I used to like launching off that as if it were a ramp! we used to make dens in the valley end of the common, the top end was far too exposed!