Molly_MacD
master brummie
Hello all,
I'm based in Western Canada, so I need to preface my request with the fact that I have zero knowledge of Birmingham (well I watched a couple of episodes of Peaky Blinders but that's it).
I've recently been able to track down my British Home child great-grandmother to her sending "orphanage" Middlemore. I've been working with a historian regarding that, and have been able to track her to Bromsgrove Street in 1907.
It appears her parents were raided for operating a disorderly house at 7 court, 3 house Bromsgrove street.
My question is what would this area have been like? Would this have been a back to back house? What types of shops/pubs would have been near by? I can't seem to find any information on that address and looking at google maps street view I suspect, much has been demolished rebuilt.
So any thoughts on what i would have been like growing up in this area as a 7 year old, or even as my gg-grandparents?
Attached is the article that was enclosed with her admittance to Middlemore -
I'm based in Western Canada, so I need to preface my request with the fact that I have zero knowledge of Birmingham (well I watched a couple of episodes of Peaky Blinders but that's it).
I've recently been able to track down my British Home child great-grandmother to her sending "orphanage" Middlemore. I've been working with a historian regarding that, and have been able to track her to Bromsgrove Street in 1907.
It appears her parents were raided for operating a disorderly house at 7 court, 3 house Bromsgrove street.
My question is what would this area have been like? Would this have been a back to back house? What types of shops/pubs would have been near by? I can't seem to find any information on that address and looking at google maps street view I suspect, much has been demolished rebuilt.
So any thoughts on what i would have been like growing up in this area as a 7 year old, or even as my gg-grandparents?
Attached is the article that was enclosed with her admittance to Middlemore -