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Awesome photo thanks for putting it up

I remember the low wall super photo

The date when I open the account would’ve been 1950

I was taken by my father to the municipal bank on the top of Spark Hill. I was handed down over the counter a very large and heavy ledger and stood at this small table had to write my name on the top of the ledger and deposited. I think it was savings stamps, by the time I was 18 amount of grown...

1921

When all manufacturing when to China it was really killed off

In 1921 my Great Aunt Rose Annie Timms a single lady all her life was working as a paper bag maker for James Baldwin and sons of Morville Street, Ladywood Birmingham. She was a paper bag maker all her life even in September 1939. She was still working as a paper bag maker although it was as most...

This gives new light onto my Grandfather’s work

I can’t believe you found so much detail in so short a time. I now know Lombard Rim and Tube Co was located at 83 but by 1950 it was a wireWorks. I know that when the slump came in the early 1930’s Alban lost his job and never regained full employment, he applied for unemployment benefit's but...

My grandfather Alban Timms worked at Lombard Rim & Tube Co Lombard St in June 1921. Does anyone know anything about this company.

Walford Road in all places above

I do remember this small shopping centre I would be asked to go there with or for my Mum as a boy in the 1950’s it was not far from my home in Roderick Road, Wrights bakers sub shop was on corner of Medlecott Road and Walford Road and a little further along Waterford Road was the post office...

VE Day party for children of Roderick Road June 1945 The people I remember. 1. First left standing Mr & Mrs Bill Mason of No34 far right Mrs Ross of No 44 Sitting at table back marked with X Janette Essery of No38. Front: far right Rosie Whitehouse of No26 , me Brian Essery on her lap, next...

May I ask are you Colin Horton and was your mother’s name Muriel. Also your father had a Ford Prefect, there were very few cars in those days.

My parents moved in No 28 in early 1940 and lived there until my Father retired to Herefordshire in 1973. His brother Jack and his wife Maud lived in No 38 all their married life from 01 August 1936 until their deaths on 31 October 1994 following the shock of an upstairs break in by thieves...