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    Joseph Houghton's Wireless Shops - 1927 t0 1939

    My maternal grandfather owned a successful string of wireless shops in Birmingham between approx. 1927 and 1939. At around that time he sold all but one which was situated at 1514, Stratford Road, Hall Green and run by his son "Jock" Houghton. I used to rummage through discarded items at the...
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    Newey Goodman Ltd Robin Hood Lane

    My father, Sidney Drew, worked at George Goodman Ltd. during the war. He was classified as reserved occupation as I believe they may have been manufacturing munitions. He served in the local Home Guard. I worked there, briefly, in the early 1970's when it was Newey Goodman Ltd. Douglas Hammond...
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