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I can now see from the maps that Court 8 was sandwiched between the bedstead manufactory and a ' Spring Works' - must have been noisy and smelly (without the privies in the backyard) - and Wikipedia has come up trumps with a plan for a Court in the Jewellery Quarter which adds to my...

Interestingly, your still of the family makes me wonder if this was the same family in the movie clip. The Dad looks remarkably similar in both.

Thanks so much everyone, that's very helpful, especially the maps. I will look at the movie in a few minutes. Hard for me to appreciate how crowded the living was, but the more I read about Birmingham in the industrial revolution, the more I understand what at least some of his motivation was to...

Hello, I'm writing a family history and while I have the genealogy well under control, I'd like to know a bit more about where my family lived in Birmingham. In 1867 there were living at 10 Court, St Martin Street but by the 1871 census were No 1, 8 Court, William Edward Street, where they...