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Re: BEER CELLAR ( KELLAR ) Cartwright and Lyn, Bogarts and Golden Eagle were certainly formative times for many. The same faces and music - brilliant. There was a resident DJ there for years, always ended the night with same song or medley of songs - or is that my imagination. Anyone...

Hello Mohawk Many have spoken about the difficult experiences of being 'in care' in the twenties and thirties. I have put this in other places but will put it again. It would have been illuminating for our parents and grandparents to have had a site like this to communicate through before...

My father James Edmunds-Littleford (Jim), born 1919, was in a workhouse as an infant before being going to Shenley Fields Children's home and Royal School for the Deaf. After this, at about 16, he went to a working Home for boys in Birminham then went to a college in Manchester studying Baking...

My father James Edmunds-Littleford (Jim), born 1919, was in a workhouse as an infant before being going to Shenley Fields Children's home and Royal School for the Deaf. After this, at about 16, he went to a working Home for boys in Birminham then went to a college in Manchester studying Baking...

Hello Bo and Wendy and anyone else that is reading, My subscription to Genes Reunited (Gold) has run out and I am wondering if there is a better option available that gives more access and informaton. Genes Reunited is now offering a Platinum version which is supposed to give a little more...

Re: BEER CELLAR ( KELLAR ) Now Bogarts upstairs to the beer kellar was absolutely brilliant. Best place for rock and fun. Rock and hippy chicks dancing on stage to Free Bird and Zepplin - forever etched in my mind.

Minsky, I think you are right about our failure to understand the importance, painful or not, of the past - our past histories. We might even learn from it. Perhaps managers like you and people like Carl Chinn might be able to influence our politicians to do as we, the people, wish them to...

My Dad, Jim Littleford, worked at for over 25 years and did collect his gold watch (which I still have in its box), he was a tube drawer. I think he was there from about 1948. He would have enjoyed reading this thread and remembering the names. I recall him coming home each day with his bag...

Bo, This is really helpful information. It would have been wonderful to have been able to say to my father that he was in a workhouse not because his mother did not want him but because she unwell/died when he was only 2 years old. I guess my bloodline would really be Edmunds/Larney. I am...

if anyone is looking for the 1881 census of inmates that were at the western road workhouse you can find it on birmingham workhouse.org... Have tried to get the site: www.birmingham workhouse.org wanted to see a list of workhouse inmates. Is there something wrong with the address?

Hello to all, You will see from the previous post that Bo has given me considerable family information that I had been seeking for years - but clearly not in the right way. I now want more information about my fathers mother, Sarah Larney and his father Arthur Edmunds. Time is always short...

Hi Bo, This is a quick reply to say how incredibly grateful I am for your kindness in responding to my request for information re Littleford family. I will certainly be going to see my grandmothers grave, Sarah Larney. I had some idea that my dad was illegitimate. His name was James Edmund...

Hi all, My father, James Littleford, was in Western Road Workhouse as a baby, around 1919/20? his mother and/or father were the inmates I guess. My father died in 2002 at 82. He was put into Shenley Fields Childrens home and stayed there until going to a working boys home at about 16. He...