Hi John and James how about pushing our memories a little bit harder and let others know how really Nechells was in the past,i for one would say it had hard working people and mostmof them respected each other virtually every street or road was a little community especially when sickness laid them low they helped out.One case and this is true my father won about £500
on the Football Pools in about 1936,the first thing he done there where four houses in the yard and it had one tap out in the yard so he paid to have a tap brought into every house,then he
took the neighbours on a Charabanc trip to Blackpool,i ask you would you see that today ,in that two up and two down house they had eleven children and irrespective the front room of the house was only for visitors and the point is we managed.Think about it and let us know your story,Fred