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Resurrecting an old thread to say: I'm worried bab is dying out! Please tell me it's only being replaced by Love in the south of town? I live away and nearly cry when I come back and get called bab, but only younger people from the black country side seem to use it now [sobs]. Am I imagining this?

I've always remembered it as 'couldn't stop a pig up entry'. Is that right? It exists elsewhere as '.... pig in a passage'.

Got out the birth certificate and it was 19 Sherbourne Road - the Bon Accord. This is quite crazy - she now lives in a care home backing onto Bon Accord House!

Do you remember any Tibbattses or Birches?

I've just been reading a bit about immigration to the US via Ellis Island. They did check for TB and they did ask if you'd ever been in a workhouse. It's highly likely that Canada asked similar questions. I think the workhouse is the stronger theory, in the sense that he'd be checked for TB by...

Yes that's my point. You wouldn't do something that could shame your mother by causing rumours without some very good reason. It might be that some of his paperwork for immigration didn't fit together, eg if he'd been registered at the workhouse in her maiden name. Or maybe some issues with his...

Thankyou so much. It still exists dowellstrust.org.uk

That might indicate he was hiding something for immigration purposes. There must have been a very compelling reason for it, as it implies that he was illegitimate. People nowadays do it if their father is abusive and their parents divorce, but that wasn't the mindset then. I'd look up the...

A descendent of one of George's sisters has seen this thread and got in touch by PM! Sadly too late to give the medals, but great news. I've shared all the info I have. I will update in due course if they are OK to share info.

I forgot to mention, that Rose lived to 102, so I knew her for many years. Sarah Ann was 40 when Rose was born, so it's amazing to say that I knew someone whose mother was born in the 1860s. Here she is aged about 25, going by the fashion (dress with men's waistcoat influence, 'flower pot' hat)...

Did he change it after immigrating to Canada?

Is that from Kelly's or the census?

Wow, shame they had to demolish it :(

Joining this classic thread with a conundrum: does anyone know where this photo was taken? The year is around 1953, and in the photo we have my grandad Sydney William Tibbatts, my dad Alan and his little brother Ian. Grandad very smart in a tie on the beach! There's quite a distinctive building...

Does anyone have a cutting from 12th March 1941 about the air raid the previous night?

Mum is now in a care home on Dudley Park Road (the next road to Sherbourne), it's an old house, of the type that might well have been a nursing home in the 1940s. Imagine if she was born there! I expect it was Bon Accord though...

I'll get my sister to look it up, it's at hers. I didn't realise it would be on there, the address isn't on mine (1970)

Just a thought. I have a friend who gave birth to a stillborn baby in 1968 (not in Birmingham). She thought at the time that the hospital arranged the burial, but didn't know where. Many years after my friend's mother died, she found out that her late mother had requested the child's body from...

Ps the name remains, if not the building

Oh wow, thankyou. Sorry not been on here in a while. Is that the only nursing home listed for Acocks Green? Mom is living back in the area now, by the way.