Recent content by jacqui58

Yes,I'm doing my family tree on ancestry I found this site by accident,hoping to find anything about my grandparents,I know they had a fish and chip shop but don't know where

No sorry

So everyone... it appears this shop is not the one on the corner of bellfield road. I sent the photo to my dad he said their shop had the door on the corner of cuthbert road and their lounge and kitchen was to the right where the window is on this photo which looked onto bellfield road. This...

I was born in 1958 so I don't think so.

I have done a Google street search sadly I don't remember anything from the past in cuthbert road! New houses and a school. Bellfield road is still the same but Dudley road has changed so much, thankfully the park is still there that I loved going to.

It was a sweet shop/ haberdashery when grandad gad it.

Was this the parades they had around the streets,I do remember walking with my nan

Also as a child we lived in cuthbert road I can't remember the number and forgot to ask my dad. I remember it was up from what people used to call the "cottages" for whatever reason. Mum and dad got married in St cuthberts in 1956, their names are Raymond and Ethel. I went to the school at the...

Hi everyone, I've spoken to my dad this evening. He says there were a few Hadleys around but not related. My dad believes my grandad owned the shop in the late 40's, he remembers starting his national service in 1951 and while he was away nan and grandad sold the shop and bought 40 Bellfield...

My grandad had the corner shop on cuthbert road at the bottom of bellfield road. His name was Thomas hadley and my nan was Gladys. The guy in the photo isn't my grandad at all and they had 2 sons. This is intriguing as I have no idea who this Hadley is at all. I did think perhaps it was new...