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Hi, I am an amateur local historian and have been researching the story of a double train crash and double runaway trains in Derbyshire in September 1867. The main runaway train was carrying cattle and eight Birmingham drovers. Five died in that crash. I have written up the story at...

Hi All, My Names Dan - Current Landlord For The New Inn - Summer Road B23 (7 Years) & The Safe Harbour - Moor Lane B6 (2 Years). I've Seen Previous Posts Regarding The Safe Harbour, Moor Lane B6 7AE And I'm Looking For Any Photos, Letters Invitations, News Posts Or Articles Regarding To The Safe...

Hello Brumies it is Shirley Kent here introducing my book WITTON. Witton is a fictional detective story set in Witton Aston in 1945. The enclosed pictures show the book. Inside I thank the Forum members for their help on several factual questions I asked. Checking on my own memory and being...

Hi all! I think this is the right place to be posting this!(?) I've had another quiet week, so I've been out and about with Pippin getting some photos and footage together of the current state of affairs in the pleasure grounds of the Magnet Centre and the general old 'Salford' area. I've...

I am about to start writing a book about mainly my birth Mother Patrica Cullen (nee Doody). She lived for a long time in Witton, Manor Road. She was Irish from Dublin. She worked at Kynoch's too (who didn't) . If anyone knew her (good or bad) I would like to hear your stories. We can exchange...

Hello all. I need help in time for christmas...My great grandma Audrey Kitson (nee Lewis) whom is 87 was in WWII and in a entertainment troop called the Kynock Follies. She has shown me a newspaper article and told me lots of stories about her time in the troop and I was hopeing anybody out...

Newton Shakespeare was on the corner of Garrison Lane and Witton Street, opposite the park. I think it closed in the 1970s, and has since been demolished. There are now houses where it used to be. It made things like japanned trays and boxes, picnic sets, cash boxes, cabin trunks, deed boxes...

Hi All. I wonder if anyone can remember or has any pictures (1960s preferably) of the greencrocers on the corner of Electric Avenue and Brantley Road in Witton. When my dad (Martin Pugh) was a young boy he used to help my grandparents Elsie May Pugh and George Pugh run the shop, i would love...