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    Gangs of Birmingham

    I couldn't help notice you are interested in the name Jennings, this is probably all and nothing only that Mr & Mr's Jennings was are next door Neighbour at No:-7 in "Crescent Avenue" Hockley there where only seven houses and a corner shop. Opposite to are house was the back of "The Birmingham...
  2. K

    St Chads Hospital, Hagley Road

    Thank you yes of course it was Elvins, do you remember also the Second Hand Dealer on the opposite side of the Crossing. That took up the whole corner, years they differ with my memory's, but I worked in a Cardboard Box Factory in the 70s. On the Corner where all the buses used to stop for...
  3. K

    St Chads Hospital, Hagley Road

    Excuse me asking, being new here I have no idea how to navigate so could you please direct me to those photos you mentioned Thank-You.
  4. K

    St Chads Hospital, Hagley Road

    I looked it up and your quite right they are indeed still trading, I get my company's mixed up with what they used to make/do. And Farm Street was spot on, are GP was there on the corner of Villa Street It was Broughs just as you said. I'm more interested in the houses that lay behind the "The...
  5. K

    St Chads Hospital, Hagley Road

    If I'm mistaken please correct me, I do remember the builders yard although the name escapes me. Where they put a subway on both sides of Hockley Flyover, on the side coming out of the City Centre down Hockley Hill and onto the brook. On the out bound exit to Soho Road from the triple junction...
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    St Chads Hospital, Hagley Road

    ;) I would be most interested in finding anyone who has any pictures, or memories of "Hockley-Birmingham England". 1950s- and before up to the present day. Particularly a place just of South Road called "The Crescent" and the seven houses and Corner shop, and Mr Priests badges company. (He made...
  7. K

    St Chads Hospital, Hagley Road

    My Eldest Son Was Born Here In 1976.
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