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Does any one have memories of the fun fair at Sheldon Country Park in the 1980s they can share? Also which fun fair family ran it and what time of year it regularly landed at the park? Did the fair at the park go back further into the 1970s? Thank you

Hi everyone. I went to the Yardley library today and whilst waiting for them to reopen after lunch I noticed this (picture attached) above the door, I have been going to the library for many years and have never seen this before. I thought it might be of some interest. It says Nutri-mentum...

Hello everyone, I have a relative - John Benjamin Hosford - and I've found out he was buried in Yardley cemetery in 1943. The details are: John Horsford (it's actually Hosford - someone's added an extra "r" which is a fairly common mistake), section E, grave 28238 ,buried Oct 27 1943. The...

I was talking to the lady in the office at Yardley Cemetery and she told me there used to be a small chapel in the original part of the cemetery that was demolished when they built the crematorium. It used to be on, what is now, the large oval traffic island type thing near the South entrance...

A photo of Yardley Carnival 1954 I've just come across ! My mother is second from the left, I think it may be a family float ?

I have attached a school photo of my father -in-law at Fairfield House School in about 1913. Can anyone give me any more information about the place ? I believe it was in Church Road , Yardley, which was where he lived. Does anywhere hold archives of such schools ? I imagine it was a private...

I have come across a death certificate for a Robert Yardley Courtney, which says he died aged 42 in 1948. At the time of his death he was living in Wycome Road, Hall Green, Birmingham. I haven't been able to find any birth registration for Robert Yardley Courtney (it would have been around...

Interested to know if anyone has any memories,photos etc of "Jauncey's" garage which used to stand on the corner of Stockfield Road with the junction with Yardley Road in South Yardley?? The garage buildings ( or the majority of them ) were still standing recently in use as a garden centre /...