By a stroke of good fortune, David Aneurin Morgan found the website and queried if Doris who died in 1930 was the same person that
A (very thoughtful) lady was doom-scrolling on EBay as one does and suddenly a name rang all sorts of memory bells. Could it be the
in a field, a group of beautiful people, flowers in their har…. Mmmm, a bit twee but the image does give off a certain idyllic
My Mother used to say, “it’s black over Bill’s Mother’s”. I questioned her as to why it was black, who Bill was and where precisely
Ian has outlined in some depth his life growing up with a Father who gave singing recitals and entertained for a living. There is a
Walter and Emily Jane duly carried out their responsibility to complete the census as required by law. This is probably the most important one for
This is very much the scene that the Sisters would have seen in about 1930. Solihull Road is away to the right, so this is
Uncle Charles won’t like the reference to the Wilfred Pickles programme broadcast on the Home Service of the BBC around war time. I read today
In 1908. This is the junction of Solihull Road (the family lived at 52) and the Stratford Road where the butcher’s shop (which was where
It was a Tuesday, and on that day, or more accurately the night, Germany launched a raid on the Birmingham Small Arms factory in Tyseley.
In the days before television that is, or even in the fifties and sixties when families ate together and before all known conversation died due