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Where did you live

Born Monro-Devis nursing home Stratford upon Avon
Brought up 60 Rectory Rd Sutton Coldfield
Driffold Cottages Maney Sutton Coldfield
Jockey Rd Boldmere
Moved to London 1969
London north various
Goodmayes Ilford
Now Village near Ware Hertfordshire
With Holiday homes in Stratford upon Avon and North Norfolk
Went to College in Birmingham and East London.
Taught in East London and then Enfield for 35 years
 
What a bunch of gypsy's ha ha its good to see all those folks spreading the Brummie accent.
46 Belton grove Rubery (next to Colmers Farm School)
7 Thurlestone Road Longbridge
21 Edgewood Road Rednal (my moms grocery store) 453 3410
Texas
California
Florida (still here) Sarasota
Started life Selly Oak hospital Raddle barn Road in 56
 
Born Clarendon St, Aston 1951
Coleraine Road, Great Barr
Cliveden Ave, Perry Barr
Adelaide, South Australia.
 
Inkerman St ,Vauxhall
Easthope Rd,Glebe Farm
Claredon Rd,Edgebaston
Ash Grove,Lichfield
Frank burn Rd Streetly
Harold Rd ,Margate,Kent
Canterbury Rd ,Westgate on Sea
 
Born at home in Swinbrook Grove 1958
Moved to Derrydown Road in 1960
moved to Curbar Road when first married
then down to New Quay Wales
back to Brum Hall Green
back to New Quay
over to Tregaron
Bar Hill Cambridge
Omargh N.I
Cyprus
Worcester
Malvern
Martley
 
I have a friend here 82 years old never moved from the village, still lives within 200 yards of where she was born.
Furthest she's ever been from home was a day trip to Amsterdam, thinks the Isle of Wight is 'abroad' :)
 
Eric Gibson said:
I have a friend here 82 years old never moved from the village, still lives within 200 yards of where she was born.
Furthest she's ever been from home was a day trip to Amsterdam, thinks the Isle of Wight is 'abroad' :)
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I have a cousin who lives in the house where she was born and where her Mom and Dad lived after the War on the Beeches estate
 
WendyB said:
Born Clarendon St, Aston 1951
Coleraine Road, Great Barr
Cliveden Ave, Perry Barr
Adelaide, South Australia.
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Hi Wendy.....I was born in Clarendon Street as well...1953, number 27 lived there until October 1969....can I ask what house number ...
 
LIved at 21 Wavell Road washwood heath when growing up then Oxford House turves green in 1979 after that 34 Hrpers Road Norhfield
 
1936 ... born 394 Green Lane, Small Heath
1942 ... went to Earby, Yorkshire
1945-1947 ... 130 Bankes Road, Small Heath and
Bournemouth
1947-1964 ... 128 Bankes Road
Ever since Hertfordshire. Those 1940s dates are approximate only, it was a confused period.
 
Born in Harborne B17 on a new estate before the district border changed over to Quinton B32., (a long time ago!!) then to Hall Green and then moved to Devon.
 
aston lad said:
Hi Wendy.....I was born in Clarendon Street as well...1953, number 27 lived there until October 1969....can I ask what house number ...
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you must know of the Mc Hugh family. My aunts Cissie had the corner shop. It was my nans shop before Cissie had it. Even though we moved I used to visit my nan and my aunties.
 
aston lad said:
Hi Wendy.....I was born in Clarendon Street as well...1953, number 27 lived there until October 1969....can I ask what house number ...
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A small extract from my mother's memoirs:
We managed to get a house in Clarendon Street. A small house but it was like heaven to us. A few weeks later war was declared.Everything seemed quiet for a few months. Tom was sent to a glass factory which made lenses for search lights so for quite some time he was in a reserved occupation. Then came the bombing.
 
Hi Wendy.....I cannot recall a McHugh family which is a shame, the only corner shops in Clarendon Street in my time was on the corner of Clarendon and Wilkinson Street, and on the corner of Clarendon Street and Upper Webster Street which when I lived there was owned by a Indian family.....
 
aston lad said:
Hi Wendy.....I cannot recall a McHugh family which is a shame, the only corner shops in Clarendon Street in my time was on the corner of Clarendon and Wilkinson Street, and on the corner of Clarendon Street and Upper Webster Street which when I lived there was owned by a Indian family.....
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I think my aunt Cissie sold that shop to them.
 
In Long Street, down an "entry" called Winterdyne Place until I was 13, then on to Tavistock Road, Acocks Green. I remember playing in Long Street, throwing up home-made parachutes and "bombs" with caps in them that banged on hitting the ground. It's all modernised there now, of course.
 
Hi everyone, just on the off chance that anyone else was born where I was... 120, Calshot Road, which is just off the Old Walsall Road, at the Scott Arms, Great Barr. Next door at 118, lived Frank Scott, and the other side, at 121, was Kathleen Harrison. Cheers!
 
Alberta said:
Born Staffs moorlands 1942
1949-1961 Marsh Lane Erdington
1961-1967 Washwood Heath
67-68 Kingshurst
68-70 Marlene croft Chelmsley
70-98 Conway road Chelmsley
98 to present Bacons End (part of Chelmsley)

(AMJ my parents moved to Dare Road in 1970 and my first husband lived in Milverton 1950 -1961 his best friend Ted Massey lived in Ilsley he went to Australia.
My best friend Marjorie Vaughan lived at the shoe repair shop in south Road.)
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My Family lived in Dare Road (Dick & Beattie Maker[Douglas & Pat]) and lived there from before 1939 at no17 My parents (Pat Maker & Joe Sutton) moved out of 17 and moved all the way across the road to no 10 in 1959 till 1969. The McCanns lived on the street at the time.
 
Were moving in September from Westgate on Sea ,to a lovely village called ST Nicholas at Wade 3 and a half miles away.
 
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