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What a great photo! Thanks so much for sharing it. Do you think the photo dates from the war years? I think it could well be Holder and Bishop's - I was taken there once when I was quite young in the early 60s. My hazy memory is of a room not that wide, with machinery down both sides. Best...

Thanks, that's great. Redwood

Thanks. Where would I find that? Redwood

Thanks Mikejee, that's interesting. It sounds like he bought the property in 1938 when the area was a respectable lower class one, then the war hit in and affected Balsall Heath really badly, the property prices dropped like a stone and the reputation of the area also took a hit. I suppose the...

Thanks Richard Dye, it's interesting to know when they were founded. The map seems to imply the factory was behind a narrow frontage - perhaps it could be seen better from the bomb peck next to it. I wonder if some of these factories grew up behind ordinary terraced houses? I think it must...

Does anyone remember the Holder and Bishop factory in Balsall Heath Road? It was at No. 166. Raven Works, (between Cox Street West and Upper Cox Street) and was some sort of engineering factory. My grandfather was Arthur Claud Bishop, managing director from ( I think) the 1930s until the 1960s...