Helen S

This is well worth exploring - I do appreciate all of these suggestions

The info I have given is indeed from the Newspaper Archives, and the early history is from Aris’s Birmingham Gazette. The earliest...

you do need to subscribe to read the reports but you can just sub for a month for about £15 i think..my idea was to put in the names of...

ahh i see what you mean pedro and yes you are correct although i would have thought digbeth a bit far out to be connected with the scott...

One of the sales, 1816, says 11 yards fronting Great Barr Street and adjoining the Estate late of Sir Joseph Scott.

hi pedro well done...i have just looked in my books the streets of brum (i have the set of 5 books) which does suggest that great barr...

The link to the Scott estate is fascinating! You have all been marvellous and given me so much to look into! I will keep you updated...

Thank you!

The 1873 is from White's directory. All the others are from Kellys (but it was called the Post Office Directory in early years, though...

Great suggestion, I hadn't but I will now - thank you

hi helen given he history of the building have you tried looking on the british newspaper archives online..you would be surprised at how...

Some new names here - thank you!

Thank you!

Ah yes - that is very much what the building looks like with the addition of some Peaky Blinders graffiti!

I believe Hildick was a toymaker from Aston St that then moved out to a farm in Lapworth and John Bott was a mortgage lender who left...