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Hi Barry just been to visit dad was talking as you do about the old days and he gave me some names to mention to you Charles Young Arthur Holder Ted Nash Joan Roberts Harry Rowell Ray Dowel Malcolm Dowell Arthur Holder is now living in a housing complex in Bournvile dad was really touched that...
Hi macd only just seen your post yes my dad Mr Ward ( Sidney ) is 86 now he was one of the directors as a little girl often remember going there on a Saturday , good times .
Dad is 84 now and mum , his wife Pamela passed away in April of this year they were married for 60 years . Would you mind telling me your name ( i do understand if you wish not to ) its just Dad likes to talk about the old days before he joined Williams Brothers he had his father business...
Not really sure there were lots of uptons from our upton family, Jessie may dose not ring any bells had an aunt Elsie May Upton but she never married her young man was killed in the war so sad .do you have any other Upton names .
Yes Bingo ! thats it thank you so much the white building is definalty the building in my mums photographs all i need to do know is if possible find anyone who used to work there . Thank you so much cant Waite to tell her .
Thank you so much i am just trying to trace some of my mothers family she is soon to be 89 and keeps saying when the time comes to go she first needs to know where she came from.
Any one on here ever lived in or had conections with Kingscote Road Harborne my mum lived Pamela Dallow there along with her father Henery Dallow at number 24and i would like to find out if there is any one who remembers them.
My mum during the later part of ww2 talks of having worked for Birmingham Corporation as a nursery nurse at the day nursery in Kingstanding called the Circle Day Nursery does anyone recall such a place i have seen some photographs of her in her uniform with the children but not of the front...
Thanks for your reply but theres no Dave in our ward family i was going back to at least 1925 if thats any help it was my grandparents that came for Larches Street.
My dads family came from Larches street name of Ward his parents then moved to Webb Lane Hall Green, dont know if this name ring any bells with anyone ?
Looking to find anyone who remembers working with my mum or at the same place during WW2 My Mum Pamela Ward ( was Dallow back then before she got married) worked for i think it was known then as Birmingham Corporation as a nursery nurse at the Circle Day Nursery Kingstanding she used to say when...
I will tell him all about this he is 83 now Falstaff was sadly hit by economic hard times( that completely destroyed my dad) and is no longer in operation like so many Birmingham businesses. It has been good looking at the links you sent me , thank you .