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Hockley Brook floods

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hi folks...took a trip down the old end yesterday..and it got me thinking just how much of hockley brook we can still see..anyhow as a child my dad lived right next to it in villa street..heres a couple of pics....

lyn:)
 
HUNTERS VALE FEB 2013 016.JPG HUNTERS VALE FEB 2013 015.JPG pict 2 and 3 on my way to and from farm st school i never missed a chance to look through the red fire door down at the flowing brook
 
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HUNTERS VALE FEB 2013 011.JPG pict 4...this is were dad lived with his mom .dad and bros and sisters...51a villa street.he lived in the top with the balcony and this is where his mom died in 1947 when our dad was 18
 
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Lyn - as a young lad I used to climb up and peer over that wall in Villa Sreet to look at the 'brook'.......... memories:)
 
The kitchen of our house in Hunters Road was built over Hockley Brook, it ran under the kitchen floor. After heavy rain you could hear oil drums and stuff banging and clanking down the brook. I expect there were the odd dead bodies as well. Happy days. :)
 
lol barrie...how fascinating that must have been...

mabz..same here...i took a peep going to farm st school and another on the way back...by the way.it still pongs as bad as ever it did...:D:D


dad used to live in hunters vale but due to the floodings some years before i think the houses got into a really bad condition so they moved just round the corner to villa st....

lyn:):)
 
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just following up on the brook...here is an old pic of hunters vale during the floods i think it was in 1918...also a map..if you follow the dotted line thats where it flowed....

lyn
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mabz..looks like we followed the brook around..id forgotton it also touched paddington st where i was born....you would know this better but dosnt it go though defford road....looks pretty close...

lyn:)
 
mabz..looks like we followed the brook around..id forgotton it also touched paddington st where i was born....you would know this better but dosnt it go though defford road....looks pretty close...

lyn:)

Yes Lyn - it was underground and crossed the top of Defford Road on its way through to Burbury Park
 
I was born in Heaton St, a few minutes walk from Hockley Brook, and lived there until I was 10 (1959); the other day I set myself the task of finding out where Hockley Brook rises and outfalls and used Astoness Lyn's mapsite:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=52.4959&lon=-1.9081&layers=176&b=6
Sadly I ran out of fried egg sandwiches (a delicacy I had a particular taste for as a pupil at Harry Lucas School, partly because they were cheap (1/-, 5p in new money) usually procured from a cafe in Farm St) before completing the task.
I'm guessing the Brook must rise very near Hockley, somewhere (otherwise it would not be called Hockley Brook), as for the outfall I'm guessing the Tame.
Can anyone throw light on this important topic?
Peg.
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/peg-monkey-cartoons.48101/page-4#post-618593
Must View!:
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/peg-monkey-cartoons.48101/#post-599477
 
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I was born in Heaton St, a few minutes walk from Hockley Brook, and lived there until I was 10 (1959); the other day I set myself the task of finding out where Hockley Brook rises and outfalls and used Astoness Lyn's mapsite:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=52.4959&lon=-1.9081&layers=176&b=6
Sadly I ran out of fried egg sandwiches (a delicacy I had a particular taste for as a pupil at Harry Lucas School, partly because they were cheap (1/-, 5p in new money) usually procured from a cafe in Farm St) before completing the task.
I'm guessing the Brook must rise very near Hockley, somewhere (otherwise it would not be called Hockley Brook), as for the outfall I'm guessing the Tame.
Can anyone throw light on this important topic?
Peg.
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/peg-monkey-cartoons.48101/page-4#post-618593
It rises in Smethwick, Its also known in parts of Aston, as Aston Brook
 
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