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The NLS have added more maps of Birmingham this month. It is worth signing up for the newsletter that they send out by EMail - CAIRT

Most archives will accept donations of old photograph (and documents). Some post on webpages to see people can identify them - as with this page on Am Baile.

Thanks, yes they have moved around a bit. It is of course possible that the secretary did not work at the location where they had their meetings and where the memorial was located. It is like when you look up the address of church, it is often either Parish Office or in a rural area, it can be...

I am doing some editing on the IWM War Memorial Register and was updating the record for the Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire War Memorial and noticed we had two records so removing one. Their Temple moved around a bit and was in Francis Road until 1971 I believe. I would like to put the...

There is a good book on the history of LEO, can't see my copy at the moment. Many forget that it was the world's first business computer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b069rvb4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04m3ftg

Are there transcriptions of the memorials anywhere? Just added the General Office memorial to the IWM War Memorial Register But it is a poor quality image and I cannot read most of the names. I never ceased to be amazed at how people can take a picture of a memorial with a handful of names and...

You often find that 19th newspapers regularly carried a column of "Stations of British Army" that list every regiment and where they were stationed that week, often individual battalions. A sample below.

I think the date was 2019 from he Roman numerals but could be wrong. They talked about a pair of children's boots that were a type given out to poorer children. I have a book about South Wales in the 1920s and 1930s with sections written by women who lived through that period. One section...

I wasn't thinking of actually sending to the WMR but if they have a copy on the WMR then it is OK. If you want to get the physical copy to somewhere for safekeeping then consider the National Railway Museum or your local archive. Most local archive will take records, documents etc for...

These are the only LNWR books listed by the IWM War Memorial Register. If yoiu have a volume then is not there then I suggest you speak to one of the local archives and see if can copy the pages and perhaps make available to the WMR if not already there...

Have you tried here? Ordnance Survey Town Plans of England and Wales, 1840s-1890s

This is,the report, I was going to correct the BNA transcription but they have done so badly that it is quicker to just transcribe myself. Birmingham Mail - Saturday 25 September 1920 null HOCKLEY WAR MEMORIAL ALL SAINTS’ CHANCEL DEDICATED BY BISHOP. A chancel screen erected in All Saints’...

ASYA probably - All Saints Youth Association

Thanks, that is it, SP 05364 88194

Found it Boys' Brigade & Girls Association - Anchor and Junior Sections

I can only see a couple of churches on Winson Green Road on 25" maps A Congregational Chapel on the corner of Villiers Road SP 04184 88375 - now a car park for the prison there. St Cuthbert's Church at SP 04288 87820 now a Bengali Centre and building does not look like the picture above.

Just working on the record for the WWI War Memorial on the IWM WMR. All the people are described as "A.S.Y.A. Members", anyone know what A.S.Y.A. was or is?

I think that is a commercial product by S&N and I think it has been around for some time. I think the most comprehensive list of War Memorials is the Imperial War Museum's War Memorial Register, it is by no means complete (is anything!) and memorials and names are being added all the time -...

Is that on the IWM War Memorial Register?

Try asking on the ROOTSCHAT forum (you will need to register). Some of the people there like a good puzzle to get their teeth into! There is a lot of information now available in the online newspaper archives. By the way, I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but Ancestry have free access...