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Hockley Hill

Many thanks Lyn for the link to the Bond St. Baptist chapel /burial ground from 2020. I had missed It before and It makes most interesting reading. A spot I worked right next to in the white building in the seventies and must have peered into hundreds of times. I think there was just a fence at the time but you could easily see through it. It's great that it has been preserved. A bit rare these days.
During my search I was also delighted to find a thread to Mayer's Green chapel in Messenger Lane, West Bromwich. My maternal grandmother lived in Reform st a few yards away and I knew the spot very well.
It's amazing what you keep finding on this site!
 
Thanks Mike. I could only find Criterion Works but didn't think it was Hockley.

Some job adverts referred to the Ludgate Hill Passage entrance
 
AlanM said:
Many thanks Lyn for the link to the Bond St. Baptist chapel /burial ground from 2020. I had missed It before and It makes most interesting reading. A spot I worked right next to in the white building in the seventies and must have peered into hundreds of times. I think there was just a fence at the time but you could easily see through it. It's great that it has been preserved. A bit rare these days.
During my search I was also delighted to find a thread to Mayer's Green chapel in Messenger Lane, West Bromwich. My maternal grandmother lived in Reform st a few yards away and I knew the spot very well.
It's amazing what you keep finding on this site!
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happy to help alan...this forum is packed with history...would you happen to know the exact address that your mom worked at in hockley would it have been the criterion works as marked on the map on post 332...if i know that i can have a look for any photos we may have of brooks..

lyn
 
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I only know that she worked at Brooks'. Hockley. It would have been pre war I guess (that dates me).
Mikejee says they were in Great Charles Street. Maybe on the corner of Gt Charles St. and Old Snow Hill? Somewhere opposite what used to be Musical Exchanges ( now RocknRolla). Spent hours in there.
 
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