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St Cyprians Church Open day
10 September 2016
Time 12pm – 3pm

The Church is 150 years old this year.
The School Room , (Museum )will also be open.

Do you or your family have any memories of this  lovely  hidden  church?
Were. you or a family member baptised, confirmed or  married there?
Did you family work at  Webster and Horsefall  ?
Webster and Horsefall Museum (in school room) is open same date and time..

The Church and the Museum  need your memories and any photo's will be copied and returned.
Times have changed drastically since this beautiful church was built over a river at the end of a leafy lane, along with the factory it was the hub of Hay Mills to benefit the workers and their families.
I can't imagine it will survive another 150 years, but we intend to collate as much historic memories as we possible can .
If you can help we would be very grateful

St Cyprians Church,   7 Fordrough,  near Coventry Road,  Hay Mills, Birmingham.  B25 8DL

Webster and Horsefall
The  first Transatlantic cable
1860 saw a marketplace for high-grade steel for oceanic telegraphy, specifically for the laying of thousands of miles of cables. The failure of the first Transatlantic cable due to inept business practices gave Webster & Horsfall the opportunity to help make the second attempt succeed. By 1865, the company had provided the necessary 1600 tons of crucible steel wire for the project, delivered within a tight twelve months. The loss of this cable within the final stages of laying realised a repeat order! This overall third attempt was successfully laid by Brunel's leviathan, the steamship Great Eastern, in just fourteen days!

Horsfall built houses and, in 1860, a schoolroom for his workers’ children. This was subsequently converted into a Chapel. The present school room which stands beside the church was built in 1863.

In 1895, the firm merged with Latch & Batchelor Ltd, wire rope manufacturers, and control of the combined business was not finally wrested back by the Horsfall family until 1948, when the Batchelor family interests were finally bought out. In 1955, the amalgamation of Webster & Horsfall with Latch & Batchelor ended.

Open day in Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
Saturday 10 September.
Time: 10am- 4pm  ( Ickneild Street Entrance )
Self guided tours on the day.
Plus help with locating your ancestors resting place.

The Friends of Key Hill Cemetery  and Warstone Lane Cemetery, are  a group of volunteers working to preserve, research, inform and promote these important historic and interesting cemeteries.
Both Cemeteries are listed on the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. There are a number of notable people buried in both Cemeteries.

Please note that contact details on the Friends website is no longer valid.

10th   Birmingham Lives  History Fair

Sunday 12th  June 2016

Venue:
Girl Guide Head Quarters,   Trefoil House,
Blutcher Street, Near Ellis Street,  Holloway Head,
Birmingham B1 1QL
Time: 11am- 4pm
All on one level

Exhibition of photos from the Carl Chinn Archives.

Books, Postcards, Calendars, History Societies, Genealogy Groups, Souvenirs

Those that have attended in the past include – (but cannot guarantee all will attend this year )

Old Ladywood- Mac Joseph  Books, Photos, Calendars:

BMSGH -Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry:                                         

:Friends of Key Hill Cemetery  and Warstone Lane Cemetery both in Hockley, Birmingham Jewellery Quarter: 

  :BARRA--   Birmingham Air Raid Remembrance Association:     

Heartlands History Society - Duddestion, Bordesley, Saltley, Nechells, Vauxhall, Bromford:

Andrew Maxim Postcards :
  :ANVIL Books:
  Newman  Brothers Coffin Works:
 :PEN Room Museum : 
 Balsall Heath Local History Society: 
 :Barr & ASTON local History Society:
 British Banking History Society:
  :Co-op History Group & Memorabilia :
 :JQRG -JQRT- Jewellery Quarter Research Trust:: 
  David Rose Photos of Birmingham: 
  :Echoes –Documentaries for all six senses:
 Friends of Moseley Road Baths:   
 Golden Memories Charts- Christine Welch:                                                                                                                                                               :Friends Organisation for centre West Midlands History F.O.B.A.H.                                                                                                                                       
 Highgate History and Reunion:
 In the Frame Postcards:
  Moseley Society Local History Group: 
   Erdington Historical Society. 
  :Ladywood  History Group- Brew House Bugle ,Norman Bartlam  & TNT News:   
 Victorian Society & West Midlands Group.                                                                         
 Writing the Past, Every family has a story:
 West Midlands Fire Museum Heritage Group: 
   Weoley Castle Ruins:   
  British Banking History :
 West Midlands Archaeology.
Winson Green to Brookfields - Ted Rudge.
 Plus Andrew Lound.

If you know your ancestors regiment details remember your   relative at –
Lives of the First World War. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/