Recent content by Ian Hartwell

Yes I've looked on Google maps although it's not the old building,but I wondered if anyone remembered the shop or had old photos showing it.

Hi All, Does anyone have any photos or info about a hardware shop my relative Elizabeth (Bessie) Cotton ran from possibly 1919 onwards until around WW2. I know after that she was in London,in the 1939 register she's down as keeper of a hardware shop 510 Green Lane.

Thanks for that,always nice to hear stories like that,perhaps the bus crashing into the shop might be in the paper

Yes possibly No 40 to live in and 41 as the shop

Many thanks for all the information! The shop was run by the family then from at least 1915 to 1963 as Violet Buswell was Janes daughter. She married a Leslie Buswell. And Maud was her daughter in law who married her son Sidney. The birmingham rate books have Charles Ody listed as a...

Pedrocut if you have a subscription could you kindly search for 41 Leopold street please as there are a few results that mention it one I think is the sale of the shop and and another an incident with someone choking,also a possible advertisement. Many Thanks if possible...

Many thanks for that! I'd been looking at searches on the British Newspaper Library and wanted to see what the rest of it said but didn't really want a subscription at the moment.

Hi All, I'm researching my wifes side of the family and she family that ran a shop in Leopold street from around 1890 to at least 1940 maybe longer as we believe the daughter of the family carried on after herr mum died. The family name was Ody and the address was 40/41 Leopold street,in an...