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Yes, I remember the photograph, but in black & white. This is what MY Birmingham looked like, and I loved it back then. Thanks.

Hi, as a youngster of about 10 or 11 I used to spend a lot of time mooching around the city centre, back in those days, you could, without fear. I vividly remember the polished brass sign on an entrance to an office block just of Cathedral Square, maybe Bennettes Hill: "PARAMOUNT Films inc", and...

Question: Where was CANNINGS factory, was it in or close to Bolton Road?

TS/Vernon: John Henry from Great Barr was our instructor.

Hi, I was a friend of Martin's back in the racing days, is he still out at Tardebigge?

I was there too, with the SWISH sponsored 1.litre Anglia special saloon racing car. Martin was an innovator, and was so badly treated by those in authority. Lovely man.

The Bull Ring in 1948 photograph, makes me smile. I am 84, and look at the scene, busy, busy, buses and people and still everyone just got where they wanted to go, safely. Now, it HAS to be Pedestrianization everywhere......how did we all survive I wonder? I have to add, I loved it like that.

A forbidding looking Gothic building. Imagine the poor souls that had to go into that place.

My how things change. Thank you.

Ladies...THANK YOU SO MUCH for all your hard work, which I do hope has been interesting at least. My Grandad was a character, of this there is no doubt, but seeing where he came from via your investigations, it is hardly surprising. I now have a much better understanding of not only Jack Hill...

Hi Lyn, Good afternoon, well, its pouring down here, hope its not too bad at your end. Thanks for the information on Bertha, as I said before, what a life she had. Thanks also for the 1939 information, and there is Violet (chick) who in later life ran a general store in Ward End I believe...but...

Thanks Ladies. G

Thank you Ladies. Excellent investigation, something beyond me I'm afraid. G x

Wow! You got me, and that is Nan, Mom & Dad. Sadly Dad went ( along with thousands of others) off to war. Now....I'm not sure how long after this, but "Chick" ( Violet came to live with us while the war was on, joined later by Hilda for a while, and then if my memory serves me right..Irene...

YES ! My mistake, it WAS 1976. Sorry...old age memory.

Hi Lyn, just googled Wainwright Street, Aston, and it is all factory units. I imagine back in Bertha's day it was more like this. Thanks. G x

Hi Lyn, thank you for this, it throws a whole different light on dear Bertha. Forgive me, but you didn't send me the 1939 Eve of War register...did you?? As you said "if I look in the column that gives years of birth, it just gives 2 digits"; you sent me two print outs The 1901 Census and the...

Trivia: Lilly ( maybe one "L") was my mother IVY's auntie, ie Jacks sister, and she was the one that looked after my Mom when she was young. Mom always looked up to Aunt Lil, because she loved theatre, and used to take young Ivy to the Hippodrome or the Alex, and the Aston Hipp, when she was a...

Again...Thank you ladies. Are you sure I haven't become a nuisance for you? I seem to have taken so much of your time with my family. I am so grateful ladies. I am learning every bloomin day Thanks to you. x

Another Wow!. I will talk to you tomorrow, you guys are The Tops! G x