I AM sending you these photos because the Mail published a view of Yardley taken from St Edburgha’s Church tower a few weeks ago.

Ivy House, which was shown, was the place where I was born and in which my father Roland Edwards lived all his life.

I was delighted and surprised to see your photo because I did not know of its existence until you published it.

I have examined the photo closely with a magnifying glass and have found that, when I compare it with the garage build photos about 1935, there are three things which date it to about 1933.

The first thing is the wooden shed which my father used as a motor repair business. He started the business in 1923 after having finished his apprenticeship with Bellis and Morcom.

The second thing is that I think I can see the triangular top of the hand wound petrol pump above the top of the fence. The third thing is that there are three very tall wooden or steel posts next to the greenhouse which I would say is the evidence that build of the new motor repair workshop had begun to take place.

The four people in the group photo in one of my photos are from left to right my father, George Judge (who did the brickwork for the new workshop). The other two I cannot name.