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Cutler's Builders - Cosehill Street

jpsmyth

master brummie
Hi, my GGG.Grand uncle worked (along with his sons) as a bricklayer for a company called Cutlers, in the 1921 census its listed as being based at Cosehill Street.

I was wondering if anyone may have any photos or additional information?

Many thanks in advance.
 
There is no Cutler listed in Coleshill Street (Kelly's 1921), could it be mis-transcribed for Cateswell Road ?
 

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The Cateswell Road, Hall Green Cutler (builder) was selling/renting out new houses in Solihull and Moseley in 1925. There were other houses for sale/rent in the same road in Solihull in 1924 and 1927.

Cutler was hon,.Secretary of the Hall Green Rugby Football Club.

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I have found a couple of references in the newspapers and there seem to be several changes of address. Non are Cosehill Street (which I still think is Coleshill) and I wonder if that was just a job they were on rather than the builder's address.
This one in 1924 puts the builders in Cateswell Road as referred to earlier

Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 13 September 1924.jpg


By 1936 it looks as if the firm was in trouble but no address given.
Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 23 July 1936.jpg
 
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The only "cutler" builder listed in 1932 Kelly's is the one in Cateswell Road.
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I cannot find a Cosehill Road listed in any Directory.
 
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