Hugh Gibbons

About six months old, came to live in School Road, Moseley. My mother was from Lancashire but was brought up in Handsworth; and my dad came from Cork to the Uni after WW1. In November 1940 our house took a direct hit from a parachute mine... In 1943 we returned, to Greenhill Road and postwar life in the city. I went to Moseley CofE Primary, Moseley Grammar School and on to King Edwards in Edgbaston. My parents retired to Somerset in 1958, leaving odd fragments of family. As a lock-down activity, with the Moseley Society in mind I've been writing up that Night of the Bomb, and cinemagoing then and now. Also completed a heavy-duty sort of history of The Reddings where Moseley used to play rugby. It'll shortly be up on-line on my own website, and has some surprises and smiles.