Rob
You are correct as to where no 14 was after about 1910. But before this time there were two Hunters roads, one in Handsworth and one running into the other in Aston and the numbering was quite chaotic . On the Aston one there is no number 14 listed in directories at the position you show ,though presumably there likel was a building so numbered. but there is a no 14 listed further up close to Wills St. The two roads were later combined and renumbered. what was no 14 near Wills St became no 144. (Possibly the no 134 given on the earlier mentioned site meant 144 which was what the house later became?), the position of this no 14 is given on the map below.
Lyn
I was copying directly from the original which says 134.
But there is a bit of a problem. I cannot find R.A.Walton listed in Kellys in 1882,1883,1888,1890, 1892.1895.1896.1897.1899,1900,1903. There is no number 14 listed as a business where Rob has marked on the map, though presumably it is likely from the numbering that there is a no 14 there. Further up the road there is another no 14 listed as a private residence of Miss Walker. Going by the census of 1892 , this was a boarding house (housing teachers, watchmakers and a clerk).
But whichever no 14 is meant as the address of R.A Walton, it does not seem to be listed in any directory I have access to and I can find no reference to the firm in the Newspaper archives. Could Mr Walton perhaps be having his whistles manufactured by an outside firm and just putting his name to them?
It is a mystery.
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