Welcome to the forum. Kathtap217Hello, I am new to this page but would welcome any confirmation about Berners Street where my Grandfathers family, including my mother grew up. They lived at 143 Berners Street and i was taken on a Saturday afternoon to visit him. He passed away in 1954 when I was five.
We went on the Outer Circle bus No 8 and used to go into the back gate. From my and my elder sisters memory the house was NOT at the bottom of the hill ( shown on the photos and last house numbered 155) but from my grandfathers house front, you looked down the hill so 143 appears to have been the other end…? Can anyone through any light on this. My grandfathers brother lived in Clifford Street and my mom went to Lozells Street school.
Many thanks
Kath
First of all - welcome, as Pete said.Hello, I am new to this page but would welcome any confirmation about Berners Street where my Grandfathers family, including my mother grew up. They lived at 143 Berners Street and i was taken on a Saturday afternoon to visit him. He passed away in 1954 when I was five.
We went on the Outer Circle bus No 8 and used to go into the back gate. From my and my elder sisters memory the house was NOT at the bottom of the hill ( shown on the photos and last house numbered 155) but from my grandfathers house front, you looked down the hill so 143 appears to have been the other end…? Can anyone through any light on this. My grandfathers brother lived in Clifford Street and my mom went to Lozells Street school.
Many thanks
Kath
Oops - typing as you postedHi Kath, welcome to the forum. Was your family named Hill
yes kath that part of berners st went a long time agoThank you so much. Can I assume that the bottom half of Berners Street no longer exists. I drove over there this morning and couldn’t work out how I remembered the street being downhill but your map makes perfect sense, thanks again
Thank you so much for this, it is fascinating.If you go this site you can get an old map on the left and current google earth view.
Don't fret about it.I replied under one of the maps posted by John and left a couple of replies there, I think,
we are always happy to help kath and i guess that as we are first and foremost a history forum it could go a long way to explaining why we have been going since 2002 and run purely on donations made by our members....keep on posting oh i nearly forgot to ask you if you have been on the berners street lozells thread as there are 2 cracking photos taken of your grandads part of the st before fully being demolished
lyn
kath i noticed that you have made a post on the berners st lozells thread..it is always best to start reading a thread from post 1 that way you wont miss anything....click on the link below to take you to it...its quite a long thread but eventually you will come to the photos i have mentioned which are in colour...you will be able to see from them just how steep that part of berners st was....Thank you lyn, no I haven’t seen the photos yet. This is where I am a bit confused, difference between threads and these messages