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Interestingly, there was an American Goldsby Called "Cherokee Bill Goldsby" who apparently was a real handful

Hi there, I'm new here, apologies for replying so late! You worked at the Bermuda! That's brilliant. Frank was my uncle, he was married to my dad's sister Vera who's still doing well with a million stories of the old days

That would be great (a series). I don't know of a "Bert" but can guarantee that the Tyseley Terror was Bill Goldsby. If you speak to Carl, tell him that you've been chatting with Heath, Bill Goldsby's grandson

Hi there, he was a "character" by all accounts. I remember mom telling me when I was little that when the police came to arrest him (a very normal thing apparently), they'd turn up 7 or 8 handed and wouldn't enter the house. She remembers them calling up to him "come on Billy, you know that you...

Tony was great friends with my dad Philip Thomas, they worked at Hills together

Hi there, did you work with the Thomas's at Hills? My dad Phil, Dennis his brother and Stan, my grandad?

Hi there, when you were at Hill's, did you work with Phil Thomas (my dad), Dennis Thomas his brother and Stan Thomas his father? Gordon Fewtrell worked with them too?

Hi there, The Tyseley Terror was my Grandad William (Billy). He was so "active" (putting it VERY mildly) that the family even wanted to change their surname, which I'm glad that they didn't. He has several pages to himself in Carl Chinn's latest book. I was bought up on tales of my Grandad but...

Hello there. The "Tyseley Terror" was William "Bill/Billy" Goldsby and was my grandfather. Carl Chinn talks about him a lot in his latest book, "Peaky Blinders - the aftermath". He wasn't hanged however he did appear in court over 50 times (that's just when he was caught, imagine the real tally?!