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Real Estate Agent, Auctioneer

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I have been racking my brains trying to remember the name(s) of the real estate agent(s) who looked after the house in Willow Avenue that my parents left behind them (for rental) when we all migrated to Australia in 1936. They later on handled the sale of it in about 1946.
This name was so well known to me once and now it is "on the tip of my tongue" but I can't get it into my mind. It was a double-barrelled name - Somebody and Somebody - and I think that they were in Bearwood Road, but definitely in Smethwick and would have been an old-established firm.
Any clues, anyone?
 
Ther appears no listing of an estate agent in bearwood road in 1940, and, as you said he was well established, it would seem that it must have been in a surrounding road
 
Many thanks, Mikejee.

Maybe it will come to me.

I was just turned 5 when we left Edgbaston in 1936, but I can remember some things.

After both my brothers were at school my mother used to take me in to Birmingham to the cinema to see Shirley Temple and Charlie Chaplin, or to go shopping in Lewis's.

One time, with my brothers, we went into Lewis's to see the aeroplane that Scott and Black had flown in a race from Australia to England. It was inside the shop and they had erected a few steps up and a walkway across so that it was possible to look down into the cockpit and then go down steps on the other side.

My mother, before she was married was the manageress of Newman's Tobacco shop in Birmingham. Before that, when she was about 15 (1907) she worked in a Tea Shop owned by her Great Aunt Mary Baker near New Street Station.

In more recent times (like 30 or 40 years ago:)) my Uncle (mother's brother) Tom Langley, used to write and broadcast on regional radio as Old Tom, the Blackcountryman. He had been a Grenadier Guardsman in the 1920s and after that a Police Sergeant in Birmingham.
 
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