Recent content by Brockoo

Really interesting stuff here - and I love the old maps. I really appreciate everyone's involvement, and perhaps it adds a bit of hidden history for yourselves!

Thank you for this That side of the road is all redeveloped, isnt it?

I enjoy learning about different places - I'll prob never know how my ggd came to own the whistle but its so much more than that - I appreciate it as an object so to understand where it comes from is important. Got to take the dog out now... might go and give it a toot in the dark ha ha!

Oh thank you so much!

Yeah! Nice! I was using it during the Thursday NHS clap! I looked on the the old Street View but couldn't determine where no.14 is/was.

Interesting, thank you. That ones still nice and silvery. (Its quite fascinating how alike it is to the Hudson model. I can see I'm going to become a whistle bore ha ha!)

Is there? (...but as they say on Antiques Roadshow...'I'd never sell it!')

Hiya! I've just spent an hour down a Hudsons rabbit hole - I didn't have a clue who they - or even Acme are! I've yet to find any other info on Waltons though. I suppose the whistle is an heirloom, yes - it was my great granddad's, he died back in the 40's; but was a plasterer not a policeman...

Ah, righto - so it was a factory? Thanks for that.

Hello all! This looks like a perfect place to ask a question - perhaps you can help? I've got an antique police whistle which has been in my family 'forever'. Its inscribed: CITY POLICE / RA WALTON / 14 HUNTERS ROAD / HOCKLEY / BIRMINGHAM / PATENT. So do you think No.14 was a commercial...