Search results

My Grandparents lived in Hanover Street, It was just off St Lukes Rd Highgate. The Original Matthew Boulton Colledge was built on the land were it ran. Does anybody know if was just demolished or destroyed during the war.

Thanks ladylinda that checks out. apparantly it was originaly called Hazewell Mill until Capon Heaton took it over in 1895 and demolished the old mill and expanded. When I was a kid in 50s & 60s we had a great time at weekends playing in the scrap rubber, use to end up going home black as the...

My Dad Bill Scott worked at Burmans in the 1950/60s, and again in the 1980s before taking his redundancy. They paid realy good money. You may remember I chap called Joe Doolin I think he had something to do with the Union, he and my Dad were best of pals.

Can anybody give me the name of what we called the Rubber Mill at the bottom of Hazewell Fordrough in Stirchley. I was born and bred in Cartland Rd and we could go down the Fordrough through the factory and across the River into Stirchley. We use to pick up all sorts of things like small rubber...

Jackie, The best advice I can give you is to start another post in the World War 1 section, putting all your Fathers details together, there are members who have access to certain records which may be able to help you or point you in the right direction. I know about the Battles and Campaigns...

I cannot find a 9th (Rifle) Brigade, the 9th Brigade was part of the 3rd Division do you know his Regiment ? look at this site if gives you the make up of the 9th Brigade https://www.1914-1918.net/3div. The Kings Rifles are different to the Rifle Brigade but I cannot find a 9th Brigade with...

My cousin Jane (Calamity), has managed to get hold of my Grandads War record and I was way off the mark. He was a POW, but was captured on 30th November 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai when the Germans counter attacked capturing 9,000 British troops. He was not in the Warwicks but the Kings Royal...

Thanks Mike, I've just put the Baltc Inn on Google and found a link on a site called Highbeam.com. There short article apparently from the Mail in 2006 by a man who lived at No37 Hope Street from 1938-1950. He says there were three pubs in Hope Street, the Baltic Inn as you say, the Woodman...

My Grandparents lived in Vere Street until my grandmother died in 1962. There was a pub just down the street. When I attended Matthew Boulton Colledge(which was built by Hope Street in the sixties) in 1969/1970 we used this pub at lunchbreak. Can anybody please let me know the name of this pub.

Thanks you both for the information, its all coming in to place now. My Grandfather and Grandmother both lived in Ashley street when they got married in 1913, different houses of course. Benacre Street was the next street up off Bristol Street, when they married they lived in Vere street which...

I have found out that my Grand Mothers side of the family came from Ireland to Birmingham in about 1849. But I cannot find the streets they lived in on any current map. They lived in Norfolk Street in 1851 and Benacre Street in 1861 and 1871. I can only assume that these Streets diappeared in...

I was born in Stirchley in 1953, and the shop that dominated was the Ten Acres & Stirchley Co Operative Society to give it its full title. It was an imposing building at the corners of the Pershore Rd and Umberslade Rd. It also had a Milk dairy just behind it. They had a barbers in the basement...

An old Foreman of mind at Lucas who was in the Navy in war used the saying for any big order "This ones going to be a Dockyard Job"

Ashley Street was heavly bombed in November 1940 so much so it no longer exsist. I am having trouble locating it in any Birmingham Street maps prior to 1940. Apparently it ran from Gooch Street to Bristol Street, Both my Grandparents lived in the Street prior to there wedding in May 1913.Has...

JoHn Scott Hello Di.Poppit, I seem to be hitting a brick wall with John Scott. I have my Grandfathers birth certificate James Scott which states he was born at 109 Covenrty Street on the 20th of January 1892, his father was John Scott and mother Mary Scott formerly Donoghue. The birth...

Livery Street When I worked at Lucas GHSt in the late sixties I use to walk the full lenght of Livery Street into town to catch the bus home to Stirchley. Then they started building the Queensway which split it in two. Sometimes I would drop in the Old Contemptibles as it was just before you...

Pubs of my youth I've first stated drinking when I first started work at the Lucas apprentice School at GHSt in Hockley. We had a good choice the Lord Cliften just across GHst, the Church a little further down the road., The Pelican which was a new pub not one of my favorites. Also of course...

John Scott Can you Look up John Scott of 109 Coventry Street in the 1891 census please. Thanks

Lucas in Birmingham I have a copy of a book called Lucas in Birmingham by Gordan Bunce and forwarded by Carl Chinn. Gordon as a supervisor at Great King Steet and Shaftmoore Lane, and the book contains some great photos from a lot of the Lucas sights. I will try and put some of this site as...

Christmas Parties at the Serck I can always remember the Christmas parties at Serck radiators on the Warwick Rd in the 50s and 60s. Sometimes they would take us to the pantomine at the Hipp. Othere times it was a party at the works. It was always a few weeks after Christmas so we always got a...