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All the very best, Eric. Chris

That's all a great shame. I think it's called "progress". Chris

Currently hoping to be there...... Chris

Happy Birthday and have a lovely day, Alberta. Chris

Blimey, it's all USA-based birthdays at the moment! Happy birthday, Richard, and all the very best. Chris

A very happy birthday and all the best, John! Chris

Thanks, Warren. (And thanks to members for bringing this problem to general notice). Chris

Thanks for pointing this out, Mark. With your comment, on top of other helpful reports in this thread, there does seem to be some sort of pattern of change happening at the moment with regard to adverts. I myself have noticed some differences, including the insertion of adverts within a thread...

Gravelly Hill is being half-suggested. The road is certainly sloping away from us as we look at it........... Are there any gradients in Sutton Road? Chris

Thanks, Mike. (If the link provided doesn't work - as it doesn't for me - try this one: https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/branches/united-kingdom/birmingham/events/moor-street-to-the-dardanelles-gallipoli-birmingham-ian-binnie/ ) Chris

Thanks. I hadn't heard of this before but it seems to have been a normal thing for schoolchildren so that they could be identified in case they were separated from parents in an air-raid and and could be reunited. Pretty sure I didn't have one. That might be because we lived on the outskirts of...

Thanks, johnny082. Don't remember the silver tags. Any further information about how and where used, please? Perhaps an image of yours? Chris

On a day this week, 85 years ago, my mother is sitting at our dining room table, in Streetly, pen in hand and ready to write. I can't remember seeing her doing this, because I'm only just four. But I know exactly, from other occasions when I did witness such things, how she would have looked as...

I'm not quite clear precisely what it is which this member is saying he's trying to restore...... Chris

That's an interesting point, devonjim. It's something I think about myself in connection with some of the bits which I write. For example, my VE Day bonfire effort: I'm pretty sure that it DID occur when I say, that is, on the day itself rather than the following day or the weekend. But I can...

VE-Day 8th May 1945 - Personal memories from 80 years ago. Anyone who has had the remarkable resilience to wade through this thread from years back will already have read what I remember of those memorable days in May 1945, never to be forgotten, or not by me at least. And now we have reached...

Thanks, MWS. Your comment has made me work a bit harder and dig deeper. And, yes, it DOES look as though, if you work at it, you CAN uncover some records which seem to be, at this moment, free. Just don't assume that the search box which comes with the offer - which one might assume to be the...

Thanks for the heads up, Lyn. However – and it may well be just me – this offer seems to be a typical, smart-*rse, marketing ploy which implies much and provides little more than nothing. For me, one or two searches DO provide outline details of a serviceman but, I suspect, nothing more than...

All the best, Mike Chris

Welcome the the Forum, Mike, and thanks for advising us of the loss of a member who previously contributed to the main Collis thread in this section of the Forum. (Thread transferred from the General Discussion section). Chris