Hockley Hill

[AlanM]

Many thanks Lyn for the link to the Bond St. Baptist chapel /burial ground from 2020. I had missed It before and It makes most interesting reading. A spot I worked right next to in the white building in the seventies and must have peered into hundreds of times. I think there was just a fence at the time but you could easily see through it. It's great that it has been preserved. A bit rare these days.
During my search I was also delighted to find a thread to Mayer's Green chapel in Messenger Lane, West Bromwich. My maternal grandmother lived in Reform st a few yards away and I knew the spot very well.
It's amazing what you keep finding on this site!

 

[mikejee]

As a matter of interest. where does Hockley end? Apparently, Brooks were at the Criterion Works, Great Charles St. , as shown on map. I would not have thought of that as Hockley, yet all the addresses list it as Hockley.

 

[pjmburns]

Thanks Mike. I could only find Criterion Works but didn't think it was Hockley.

Some job adverts referred to the Ludgate Hill Passage entrance

 

[AlanM]

I suppose it ends at St Chads Circus as Bond St where I worked had a Hockley address.
I was wondering where Brooks were.

 

[Astoness]

Many thanks Lyn for the link to the Bond St. Baptist chapel /burial ground from 2020. I had missed It before and It makes most interesting reading. A spot I worked right next to in the white building in the seventies and must have peered into hundreds of times. I think there was just a fence at the time but you could easily see through it. It's great that it has been preserved. A bit rare these days.
During my search I was also delighted to find a thread to Mayer's Green chapel in Messenger Lane, West Bromwich. My maternal grandmother lived in Reform st a few yards away and I knew the spot very well.
It's amazing what you keep finding on this site!

happy to help alan...this forum is packed with history...would you happen to know the exact address that your mom worked at in hockley would it have been the criterion works as marked on the map on post 332...if i know that i can have a look for any photos we may have of brooks..

lyn