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This is the building now but any idea what firm was in the building to the right in 1he late 1940s; the one that says Comercial Catering?

Many thanks Mike that's helpful; the Cockerell building is the one I had in mind but the name Cockerell doesn't ring a bell but of course my memory is not always reliable. My sister worked as a seamstress in the 1940s. That's the building I thought it was or it may have been one nearby. There...

Can anyone remember the name of a clothing manufacturers, sewing workshop, etc., in Nursery Road, the Hockley Brook end please?

It used to be the Bridge Trust School after the trust that was used to set it up originally; hence the bridge on the badge

I was a student in the early sixties and the last ever holiday job I had before moving to Golsmiths College in London was two weeks at Dunlops. I worked with the steel erectors team but didn't really have to do anything other than follow them around, for health and safety reasons. It was amazing...

Is there only me still around who went to Burbury Street School?

I have spoken to my sister Olive. It didn't ring any bells for her. But, she did say that the other Olive she knew then was Olive Evans who lived at the Summer Lane end of Geach Street.

I have spoken to my sister Olive. It didn't ring any bells for her. But, she did say that the other Olive she knew then was Olive Evans who lived at the Summer Lane end of Geach Street.

Jackie, my sister was Olive. I will try to remember to ask her when I speak to her. She may not remember, she is 87 now. What was your mother's name and what year about was that Christmas?

Once again, many thanks. My grandfather and great grandfather were both Francis Harry Crompton. My great grandmother ran a grocers later in Guildford Street so that seems to be the clue to my Mom's family living there.

Many thanks Mike that's great and really quick/ Lyn our families keep living in the same places

Just posted about Cregoe Street where my Mom was living when she was two. She was actually born at 92 Ledsam Street; do you have a map of the bit Mike? The reason I am confused is that her elder brother was born two years before in 1897 at 6 Eden Place, Guildford Street. But sometime after 1897...

I had always assumed that my mother was born in the Farm Street/Guildford Street area. That is where her father had spent his earlier and later life and most of her life. I have just found out that at the age of 2, she was living at 2 bck of 82 Cregoe Street. There is no court number on the 1901...

Cowdrills who had an electrical shop at least before the 40s in Wheeler Street near Farm street, also had a shop not quite in Lozells Road but just around the corner in the road opposite the Villa Cross cinema. He also sold bicycles there.

Many thanks Viv. Maybe it is not a uniform, nevertheless it looks very formal

The stile etc., are just accessories in the photographer's studio, jukebox

This is a photograph of my Mom taken around 1912. Is she wearing a uniform? If so any clues. She seems to be all in black; the hat and scarf(?) seem like part of a uniform. Possible clues and information: She went to St Matthias's school in Wheeler Street. She went to the chapel in Guildford...

Yes, my brother worked delivering bread (Hardings?). in the laet forties he had a horse driven bread cart and at the Guildford Street end of Geach Street there was a large building where a local milk delivery firm stored their horse carts

I remember another blacksmiths nearby. In Newtown Row, directly opposite the Aston Hip was a butchers; that bit was probably called High Street. Down the side of the butchers was an opening leading to the blacksmiths, behind the butchers. While my mom was in the queue at the butchers, I would go...

Have fond memories of Hudsons. Had a good friend who worked there in the 50s. I still have many books bought from there