What’s On at Midland Ancestors –
Birmingham Meetings
Birmingham : Pantomime – A real Family show
Speaker: Neil Roberts Neil investigates the family structure of the traditional pantomime. From its origins in the harlequinade to the way it has changed over the years, remaining just as popular now, as ever. A light hearted presentation that even has an opportunity for audience participation (Oh yes it does).
Birmingham: The Green Room Plaque
A bronze memorial plaque commemorating twelve actors who died serving in WWI was discovered in a Rugby sale-room. The stories of the lives and deaths of these actors will be revealed and show something of the acting profession at the turn of the 20th Century. Military archives, contemporary newspapers and other sources allow their stories […]
Birmingham Sydney Race’s Nottingham Nights
Sydney Race, from his early teens, kept an irregular journal, in which he wrote about his fascination with the amusements Nottingham had to offer - the annual Goose Fair, where Race first saw moving pictures, visits from tenting circuses and portable theatres, freak shows which established themselves briefly in empty shops, and the Theatre Royal, […]
BIRMINGHAM MEETING SNOWED OFF
We are sorry to have to make the decision to cancel the meeting in Birmingham on Saturday 3rd March. There has been much publicity about avoiding unnecessary travel, and there has been uncertainty that the BMI would be able to open if the snow was too bad for their staff to get there. We hope […]
Birmingham: Webster and Horsfall, Birmingham’s oldest business – its history and the project to save its records for family historians
Our speaker joined Webster and Horsfall as a Production Manager in their fine wire department and ever since has taken a keen interest in the history of the Company which celebrates its 300th Anniversary in 2020. He retired in 2005 and now devotes his time to the development of the Webster and Horsfall Archives, Family […]
Birmingham: AGM followed by “An Over-View of BMD Sites”
UKBMD was started as a simple web site to enable the main BMD sites to be found via one convenient starting point. It was quickly discovered that there were many other sites offering BMD listings that were not readily accessible. UKBMD grew in the number of links it had. We will learn about the latest […]
Birmingham: Second City Executions & the Coffin Works
This talk looks at some events where people met their end with the help of a hangman’s noose in Birmingham over a period of 200 years. This ties in (so to speak) with a few of the Birmingham Conservation Trust higher profile projects, including the Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries, against a background of some well-known people who made […]
Birmingham: The Shickles of Bordesley and Albany, New York: Discovering a Family
The talk arose from research work following an email from the family in the USA, who wanted to visit a grave here. The speaker offered to do a tour for them, and after more than six months of research and emails, it all went ahead delightfully. The men who emigrated would certainly have encountered the […]