War Memorials & local history, West Midlands - Warwickshire

 Morning, just a short note to say I am still here and monitor this blog frequently. Although I haven't got round to adding more content this year. Life just gets in the way.  So here is a ph...

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 THREE OLD ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM WALSALL & DUDLEY IN ENGLAND. Last week I picked up 3 antique photographs from a car boot. Interesting groups of people. A wedding, working men and , Can you ...

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 MEN WHO DIED AND ARE COMMEMORATED ON THE WW1 PLAQUE IN ST GILES, SHELDON BIRMINGHAM. A few days ago, we visited the church in Sheldon Birmingham, St Giles for the Heritage week event. We were ...

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 COLLECTING OLD POSTCARDS FROM AREAS AROUND SHELDON AND BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL Brought a few more postcards yesterday from the car boot. There is just a blank diversion on the back of each with no ...

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 PUTTING NAMES TO FACES IN MY PARENTS 1959 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH SHOULD BE EASY RIGHT? No, wrong, Even with my one parent's help it has proven difficult. I wanted to have faces to add to my family...

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 BIRMINGHAM/MANCHESTER UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1930S AND 1940S. Wondering around the car boot and other second hand sales. I find many photographs that are do not have a name on the b...

https://www.jewelvintagevibes.co.uk/2023/02/birminghams-unidentified-photographs.html

 OUR COLLECTION OF BIRMINGHAM VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN PEOPLE IN PHOTOGRAPHS Although I buy primary named photographs and ephemera. I occasionally pick up unnamed photographs - just because they...

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 LAURIE MCPHUN (ALSO SPELT LAWRIE MCPHUN) WAS JUST 16 WHEN HE LOST HIS LIFE DURING WORLD WAR ONE.  This photograph I found on eBay a few years ago now. I have been researching my soon to be so...

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 PRIZE GIVING ON THE 5TH NOVEMBER 1959 TO NURSE JUNE. I found this photograph below in an envelope with another photo at the Chelford car boot sale. The black and white photograph was taken Ply...

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 FOUND SOME OLD WEDDING TELEGRAMS SENT TO MR & MRS J DAINS IN 1969. Last year I came across three old wedding telegrams at a car boot sale in Chelford, Knutsford. As usual I brought them from t...

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DOES THE LOOK OF ANCESTORS PASS DOWN THE FAMILY LINE?  Yes, I am still collecting old photographs and documents that have found in car boots. However, life gets in the way and a broken printe...

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 WHERE WERE MY ANCESTORS BURIED? This is a question that up until recently I totally didn't think to look. Most of my family history research ended at their deaths and sometimes I found a will...

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 EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF TWO FOOTBALL TEAMS IN SOLIHULL Showing the two photographs of early West Midlands history from Solihull. I brought these two many years ago from that popular auction websi...

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A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CHOIR OF ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH, SELLY OAK IN BIRMINGHAM 1890 - 1897  A few years ago I brought this old photograph of eBay. It is of the choir and the vicar with other elders ...

https://www.jewelvintagevibes.co.uk/2022/03/st-stephens-church-choir-in-selly-oak.html

KENILWORTH CASTLE AND ANCIENT GRAFFITI. A few years ago now, I visited Kenilworth Castle. It is close to where I live but had never visited. The castle is in ruins, but is fabulous to walk arou...

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 ORDERING WRONG BIRTH, MARRIAGE AND DEATH CERTIFICATES IN FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH If you are researching your ancestors the proper way - That is by obtaining birth, marriage and death certifica...

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 WELCOME 2022. I can not believe the year has flown so quick. Last time I posted on here was in April last year. Been a bit busy since then. Welcomed a new grandchild to add to the other 2 bril...

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 ELIZABETH SARAH CURTIS AND THE HART FAMILY OF RUGBY CONTINUED. In my last blog post I started to show the huge number of photographs and ephemera related to the families. Found in a car boot a...

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 IRIS VIOLET'S HART'S LIFE IN A CAR BOOT - RUGBY RESIDENT OF OLD.. Rummaging through boxes of ephemera at the local car boot is a must. So when I found a bunch of photographs with the name "Har...

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 LOOKING FOR MY ANCESTORS AND OTHER FAMILY TO ADD FACES TO NAMES AND INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR LIVES. In the last few weeks I have been able to return an album of photographs and taken scans of t...

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 RAYMOND HORROCKS AND HIS AIR FLEET MEMORIES DURING WW2 During World War Two, my oldest uncle (who I never met) served in the Air Fleet. Raymond or Ray as he was known, was one of the four chil...

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 MY FAMILY WEDDING FROM MY HART SIDE BUT WHO ARE THEY? If you have been following my blog - you will know that I collect old photographs and ephemera from mostly car boot sales. In the hope tha...

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 Longbridge Parish Church in newspaper clippings and photographs from the 1960s. Last summer, I came across some newspaper clippings along with some photographs of the vicar and booklets in a ...

https://www.jewelvintagevibes.co.uk/2020/12/longbridge-parish-church-newspaper.html

 MOUNT PLEASANT CHAPEL RECIPE BOOK 1909. A few years ago, I brought a small battered book in a church sale. The book had no cover and was falling apart. No information to see where Mount Pleasa...

https://www.jewelvintagevibes.co.uk/2020/11/mount-pleasant-chapel-recipe-book-1909.html

BUYING VINTAGE AND SECOND HAND FROM A JUMBLE SALE. Back in the thirties and forties here in the UK, a horse drawn cart would go around the streets. Children would bring out their rags in exchan...

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