Louisa
master brummie
I hope that someone can help me find the answer to whether my 80 year old Great Grandfather spent his last years in a sort of boarding house / hostel at 30 Hatchett Street Birmingham in 1924.
Although he died in Western Road Hospital in 1924 the home address he gave was 30 Hatchett Street Birmingham. I thought there may be other family members at this address so I looked up the Electrol Rolls and found a list of unrelated mens names in the 1925 rolls which made me think it may be a hostel, but no staff or womens names as servants or helpers mentioned.
How can I find out if this was a mens hostel or just a boarding house for men in declining years or in need? I know there was a methodist church in Hatchett Street and Havergal House, who may have had a mens hostel but I am not really sure what happened to the elderly poor and sick people around 1924, does anyone know?
Although he died in Western Road Hospital in 1924 the home address he gave was 30 Hatchett Street Birmingham. I thought there may be other family members at this address so I looked up the Electrol Rolls and found a list of unrelated mens names in the 1925 rolls which made me think it may be a hostel, but no staff or womens names as servants or helpers mentioned.
How can I find out if this was a mens hostel or just a boarding house for men in declining years or in need? I know there was a methodist church in Hatchett Street and Havergal House, who may have had a mens hostel but I am not really sure what happened to the elderly poor and sick people around 1924, does anyone know?