Bradmore wolverhampton, Gunmakers and Church Road

[lizbrant]

I am not good at using this - look me up on www.learninglinksinternational.com - we are just setting up the Finchfield Community Association Website

Spent today at local schools setting a challenge with local children to design a flag for Finchfield - we sent the children home with a pack - first page below and I did a short piece on local history etc

FINCHFIELD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
                                                                                                         March 2010
Flying the Flag for Finchfield!
The newly created Finchfield Community Association is delighted that Philip Tibbetts, the Black Country flag designer, has agreed to help the children at Uplands and Bhylls Acre Schools to design a flag for Finchfield! Philip’s work came to the attention of the FCA Committee in a feature on his work in the Express and Star.
The challenge for a group of children from each school, is to use their own ideas to  design a flag, which could be accepted as the “official” flag for Finchfield. Each school will display all the flags created and will select 5 to put forward for consideration by the FCA Committee and Philip himself. Philip will then create the flag with elements from one or more design.
Flags have specialist terms which the children have learned about. There are also 5 basic principles that guide flag design:
1 Keep it simple – presented in colour on A4 paper
2 The colours and shapes on a flag have to have meaning – related to the name Finchfield or local history
3 Use no more than 4 clear colours, no shading
4 Don’t use lettering or logos
5 Make the flag design distinctive
This guidance comes from “Good Flag, Bad Flag – How to design a Great Flag” see: http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/GFBF/GFBF_Final_Web.pdf

Most importantly we hope you enjoy learning about flags and having a go at designing a flag for Finchfield, then you can always design one for your family, or your street!

You can use crayons, felt pens, paper collage, computer graphics or any other medium to create your design – the simpler and bolder the better! Also we don’t mind if Mum or Dad or anyone else helps with this project.

Please bring your flag design into school by Monday 15th March.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing all your flags on display. We have included a brief history of Finchfield to help you, but your family may know a lot more about the history of Finchfield.

This wonderful guy who is designing flags for Black Country towns and villages came as well. He is brilliant - did you see the article about him in th e Exprtess and Star in January?

[truebritmega]

does anyone know if its true that the origin of the name bradmore for Our bradmore was broad mere? if so could it be to do w the ancient lake stretching from somewhere down by high fields school up to around tettenhall? Mom said the ground thats now bradmore recreation park was a boggy area when she was a nipper

[Kizzy cat]

Hi there i'm new to roots chat so please bear with me if i get things wrong.

Re article and map showing "The Fernery" in Broad Lane Bradmore.  The Fernery was a house owned by the Hickman Family, my grandmother was in service there in 1901.  The house no longer exists, but if anyone has a phote of it I would be grateful.

[Uplands]

To which picture do you refer to Kizzy?

Bob.

[truebritmega]

Thank you Kizzy and welcome to rootschat i hope youll like it here, thank you for that lil bit of info on the fernery, do you know what they did there? and yes I too would be very interested in a photo of it if anyone can conjure one up

[Kizzy cat]

Hi Uplands,

Truebritmega, posted an old map of bradmore area on 30 aug 09, which shows the position of a house called the Fernery.  Researching my family history i found that my great grandmother was in service at the fernery  in 1901.  The Fernery I think was situated where the flats are opposite bantock park on broad lane, I think the flats are called bantock court.  I would dearly love a photo of the house.

Kizzy

[Uplands]

Hi Kizzy

I presume this is the house you mean?
If it is I remember it well, in fact as a young lad from 1941-48 I went to school with a lad who lived there. I can't remember his second name but his first was Robin.

Bob.

[Kizzy cat]

Hi truebritmega,

The house is in the right position.  It looks bigger on your map.  Its the best copy i've got as yet.  Any ideas where I might get a photo?

You are obviously well up on  local history.  Do you have any info on Bellencroft Farm - it used to be in Bhylls Lane, where Bellencroft gardens are now.

Kizzy

[giraffe]

Thank you Kizzy and welcome to rootschat i hope youll like it here, thank you for that lil bit of info on the fernery, do you know what they did there? and yes I too would be very interested in a photo of it if anyone can conjure one up

Hi Truebrit, my gt grandmother was in service at Seighford Hall, Staffs, and looking at the Census for 1881 I found the head of the household was an 'Ironmaster', presumably the boss of a foundry in the area. Does this help to answer your question as underlined in the quote?
giraffe