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Thanks for the info, I will see if I can locate more info from those sources. Astonian, thanks for that but I don't really want to own one, just know about their production. Interesting thought though...

I'm researching a book and have only just started look at this particular aspect so at the moment I'm not sure what I am likely to discover. Currently I can't find any books to help me on one particular aspect of this subject and wonder if there is any obscure information "out there" which I...

I managed to work out the conversion with the help of a little program I found. I can now go back to Land Registry armed with exactly what I need to locate the titles etc. Can I just say thanks to everyone who came up with ideas on this, especially as it wasn't even in Birmingham. The city...

I didn't know about that at all! I've found Broad Oak, as large as life. Amazing! Can anyone tell me how to work out the co-ordinates please? Poplars Farm is there too, although a little smudgy. I must admit I can interpret OS maps but I can't work out map points on them... The house...

I think you may be right! I've had a look at street view and the only clue I have is my mother's memory that the drive was just about on the crest of the hill (this area was named Salts Hilll) and this is about where this is. I need to identify that green building but I think we can just go...

Thanks for those OS maps, the area is right in the middle, well worked out! Can you tell me the year they are from as I can't see the second house marked on them (or the sewage works). This newer house (Broad Oak) was compulsorily purchased too, I think at that point it was lived in by Dr Dow...

Thank you for that, I really appreciate you taking time to look. The map is very slightly deceptive as the Griffin Inn itself is in that little triangle of land and Poplars Farm is just below where "Griffin Inn" is written! Those buildings you can see there are it and the tree symbols are its...

...I'm hoping someone can help me anyway. I am looking at an area just outside Redditch on the way to Studley via the "bottom" road which used to be called Salts Hill. I'm researching a book and want to locate a house long since demolished. I have struggled to find it on ANY map but now have...

Does anyone have any idea what this company used to make? They joined forces to some extent with E F Houghton in the USA around 1910 and that's the period I'm really interested in.

Does anyone have any idea what this company used to make? They joined forces to some extent with E F Houghton in the USA around 1910 and that's the period I'm really interested in .

That's a great photo, thanks for that. I remember all the corporation buses used to stop outside. And all those sparrows (or starlings?) in the trees at dusk. What a racket they made! Canadian Pacific were a huge company running liners, freighters, a transcontinental railroad across Canada...

Interesting stuff! Canadian Pacific was more or less opposite the Birmingham Council offices, just as Colmore Row turned the corner to become New Street. So the Post Office was just across the street too.

When I first left school in 1966 I worked for Canadian Pacific who had offices at the end of Colmore Row. They were tall buildings with deep basements and using the toilets involved going out into a wide corridor from the second underground level and into toilets across from the back door of...

During WW2 there were plenty of factories in Birmingham either producing the actual munitions or otherwise parts for munitions which were being assembled elsewhere. I'm wondering whether these places were protected or guarded in any way. Someone hs suggested Military Police to me but I'm...

Thanks for that. It seems it may have been demolished around 1968 from what I can see. Someone actaully comments on a photo on one of the threads but I can't see it anywhere. Never mind, I shall keep looking.... Thank you all.

I wonder if there is anyone who could help me with this please? I am trying to find the name of a pub/pubs this couple ran in Birmingham. I know they were not publicans at the 1911 census so it will probably be somewhat after that. Lizzie was born Emma Elizabeth Batson in 1872 and at the...