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Old Birmingham / Re: the old pubs of brum
« Last post by lmr3103 on March 19, 2024, 09:40:31 PM »
I think I'm right ...... ;D
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Old Birmingham / Re: the old pubs of brum
« Last post by lmr3103 on March 19, 2024, 09:25:44 PM »
I though cobs were crusty rolls, and baps were soft ones..... :-\
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Old Birmingham / Re: the old pubs of brum
« Last post by Gwladmab on March 19, 2024, 09:17:35 PM »
Crumb catchers are compulsory when biting into a crusty cob. In Coventry they called them Baps. I always thought Baps were round loaves of bread, perhaps three time the size of a cob.
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Old Birmingham / Re: the old pubs of brum
« Last post by Scipio on March 19, 2024, 06:55:52 PM »
Ed that's a bit of an argument in it's self , I love crusty cobs but i cant stand a soft cob . The crusty ones  are a bit tougher to get through than the soft ones . The crusty one is the only way to eat ham,cheese, etc , soft rolls are what we put hot dogs on .
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Old Birmingham / Re: Mother and baby unit run by nuns in Selly Park
« Last post by Android1968 on March 19, 2024, 04:24:09 PM »
Hello
I'm just trying to research my grandmother, Julia Doherty who was in Woodville and gave birth to my mother (Sorrento Maternity Home, Moseley) in late September 1939. From what I can gather she was only sixteen at the time and obviously had my mother adopted which was finalised in March 1941. I wonder if they were in there at the same time... She returned to Ireland and left my mother in Birmingham. I've contacted various institutions to try and trace my grandmother. St Edwards, Father Hudson's Care, Archdiocese of Birmingham, etc. I weirdly have a baptism certificate for my grandmother from St Edwards in Selly Park from 1922 which makes me think that her mother also had to flee Ireland in 1922 to have my grandmother illegitimately. But then I presumed my grandmother had at some point returned to Ireland. Unfortunately I can't find any mention of her in the General Records Office.... All very frustrating. If anybody has any ideas as to the best way to find her I would be very grateful.
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Old Birmingham / Re: Yew Croft Special School Harborne
« Last post by Tintin may on March 19, 2024, 02:02:33 PM »
Hello my name is Stephen may  I went to this school between 1979 1982 .. names I remember.  Desmond record . Paul Johnson.. Paul Cameron.. Hazel.  Julie . Teachers mr and Mrs Dixon.. Mr hurt .. Mrs gray .. .. Lee Akram. 
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Old Birmingham / Re: the old pubs of brum
« Last post by Edmund Fifield on March 19, 2024, 10:09:14 AM »
In Kent they are called CRUSTY ROLLS OR SOFT  ROLLS
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Old Birmingham / Re: the old pubs of brum
« Last post by frederick on March 19, 2024, 08:47:34 AM »
G W,
I now call road Islands in Brum round a bouts now as I was continually corrected, our coast is surrounded by Islands.
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Old Birmingham / Re: the old pubs of brum
« Last post by lmr3103 on March 19, 2024, 08:16:19 AM »
I think it is a Brummie word. My friend from Scarborough calls them barm cakes!
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