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Just coming back to this and trying to clear my head as to where we are. Where I think I am – and this is where my brother came to a stop – is that Isaac Myers (1792-1848, m. Rachel Jacobs (ca.1790-1844) was the father of my great-grandfather Henry (1832-1907). In 1823, Isaac is mentioned as a...

I think that an answer to that complicated question would take up a full academic thesis or fairly dense book, Richard! (Which, in any case, I rather doubt whether I would be capable of producing ....) I'll just try and summarise what, for me at least, seemed to me to have been some of the...

Yes, Richard, as Stokkie says, the business has been transformed over the last few decades with all the original activities such as ammunition and, a bit or a lot later, non-ferrous semi manufacture (sheet, rod, wire etc.), titanium and other new metals, zip fasteners, Amal carburettors and...

Just referring to the title of this thread, I'll leave it to others to comment who know far more about this subject than I. But I feel that this dreadful accident, and others, led more to the demise (quite rightly) of the handling and processing of explosives in central Birmingham, rather than...

Thanks for that, both. I'd very much like to explore that further and shall come back to it shortly. Meanwhile, though, I'm just trying to summarise where we have got to on the nomadic life of my paternal grandfather, Charles, between the loss of his wife Martha Bannister in 1918 and his death...

I saw quite a lot of a small Walsall leather business in the 1950s as a teenager, one which had been established in the 19th century, in purpose built premises just like the one occupied much later by the Museum. Its original product range was essentially bridlery and saddlery but by the time I...

Thank you for that, Janice. Yes, I was aware of it. Although not the second one. There are a couple of further reports too, somewhere or another, giving further information on the tragedy. All this has prompted me to jot down what is now known about my Gt. Uncle Maurice and I'll bore you with...

Thanks, MWS, not picked up by my brother, for obvious reasons. Do we assume that Rebecca was also the mother of Henry's three older siblings. She must have been living in Birmingham in that case. And we can only guess as to why Henry was not part of that family there. It also indicates that...

Here they are, Henry and Rose, perhaps on the day they married but probably later. A respectable Birmingham couple.... Chris

That is very interesting new information, MWS, and quite surprising. I have quite a bit of information about my brother's researches into Henry. But unfortunately I have run out of time to transcribe it and am off the radar for all of this coming week. Could I ask you (and no doubt Janice!) to...

That's dreadful news. Eric was always an inspiration to us all and we shall miss him in many ways and be ever grateful to him. (Thank you, Alberta, for letting us know). Chris

Thanks - when I said "final" I really meant just for me putting High Street, Harborne to bed! A bit more to come from me about Auntie Rose and also her brother's, my other grandfather's, whereabouts, after his wife Martha Bannister's death in 1918. Certainly don't want to close down further...

Continuing..... Just one or two conversations did linger, for reasons unknown. One day, the talk turned to the Blitz. I don't think that this can have been immediately after the major raids of late 1940 and early 1941, but as recalled a year or two later, in perhaps around 1943 when I was...

A perhaps final word on George Thomas Tovey, (1862-1949), my maternal grandfather, as I remember him in the last 15 or so years of his life. (See posts around #138). FURTHER MEMORIES OF EMILY BLACK AND GEORGE THOMAS TOVEY AT 35 HIGH STREET, HARBORNE (ca. 1940 - 1949) written by ChrisM in 2025...

Thanks, MWS, My brother would have agreed with that. He noted "unknown ancestry" above John's name. No lifespan either, just "married 1822" and Martha Jewkes name. Back shortly - possibly a bit temporarily - with a further glimpse into life about 80 years ago at 35 High Street, Harborne. Chris

Crikey - never knew that. He was bouncing around amongst his three children for the rest of his natural, then - apart from a fateful, short (it seems) and solitary period in Handsworth. Bad decision. Chris

Just visiting - short, between-digs, temporary stay - longer term arrangement?? Who knows? I wonder if that was it and he was back in Brum to stay, there or wherever. Possibly. Handsworth was an eventual, bad choice. Dad and Mum must have ducked out - three bed-house also, three kids...

So, I think we have an explanation, don't we? Rose left Wheeley's Road in 1934-ish, moved to another address in Harborne (identified) and moved again after 1939 to no. 403 Harborne Road, Harborne/Edgbaston - from where she was finally admitted to hospital and died in 1944 and which I visited...

My brother has a note of Rose being admitted to Selly Oak Infirmary, dying there on 13th May 1944. Does this explain the Raddlebarn Road reference? Janice - yes you did, thanks. That was the home of his youngest child, Grace. He must have moved out before the bombing started. (Remember...

ROSE (AND CHARLES) MYERS Thanks, Janice and MWS. Janice - I have no recollection, regrettably, of the exterior of the house within which Rose had a room or rooms..... However..... When I was looking at StreetView I was very much hoping that she would be found in one of the houses numbering...