My Mother was born in Brantley Road- number 35. She went to Deykin
Avenue School until she was l2 and then went to a College in Birmingham
to learn shorthand and typing. She used to travel by train to Town from Witton Station. Her attendance at Deykin Avenue would have been just before WW1. She used to play the piano for the children to
come in for Assembly and play the main tune which I don't know the name of, at home on our piano. A lot of the time even now this tune runs through my head because it was very lively.
She was an only child of mature parents and enjoyed her childhood in the Witton area very much. Her Mother couldn't sew, my Mother later on was an excellent sewer, so her Mother had two maiden sisters Alice and Lucy Holden, who lived in Brantley Road, make a lot of her clothes as she was growing up. They retired down to Devon and my Mom used to go and visit them in the late l970's before they passed away.
Mom did, however, relay to me stories of some of the terrible poverty in the area in those years. Her father didn't drink alcohol and she said that is what saved her family since he was the only breadwinner. Her father doted on her as well.
My father lived in Wyreley Road but attended Albert Road School. He had friends in Cheshire Road but I can't remember their names. I know the area well as I had a school friend who lived in Tame Road and I also worked for a while at Halladays Drop Stampings also in Tame Road, now closed down.