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Rotton Park street

think its one of those we either know or we dont mike...no obvious clues but fingers crossed someone may know

lyn
 
and i think its a corner road or st further down on the right mike but apart from that not much to go on...

lyn
 
Here is the photo made brighter, looks like an abandoned area awaiting demolition, rubbish in the gutters everywhere, looks like a corner shop with 2 people down the end. Typical Victorian era with lots of small paned windows for workshops, entrance must be round the corner
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Possibly Docker Brothers?

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mikejee

Thread 'Docker Bros'

Examining the excavations from my attic, in a couple of copies of "The Aeroplane" from 1945-55, I came across these adverts for the firm.

Docker ,The aeroplane 22.7.1955.jpgDocker ,The aeroplane 26.11.1954.jpg

The firm was formed in 1877 at 135 High St Bordesley as William docker & Co to manufactue varnish for blacking stoves,and soon also opened a factory in nearby Allcock St.. In the mid 1880s they opened a factory in Rotton Park St, and for a few years maintained both sites but, but soon concentrated on the Rotten Park St site. They soon expanded into paint, varnish & cellulose lacquer manufacturer, and, as can be seen from the...
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mikejee said:
In 1913, it was the corporation's salvage /destructor department on map. In directories of the time Dockers are listed as next to it, though not quite clear which side of them, though from the ,map it must be the unnamed building to the north

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Mike I'm glad you mentioned the corporation yard , when I started my apprenticeship in the 60's the company I worked for used to discard all their waste paper there the paper were in what looked like 6' x 4' sacks and of course they had to pay to get rid of it .
 
pjmburns said:
BARRA website only lists one death in Rotten Park Street on the night of the 27th July 1942
A civilian named Sydney Charles Tropman
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See my post #19 above. I linked to the copyrighted picture, the text below says the major bombing and subsequent fire was the following night 28 July 1942.

'L G While in his booklet `Raiders over Rotton Park’ names them as Bill Griffin, Bill Russell, Harry Norgrove and Bill Field. Two nights later in a follow up raid Bill Fitzpatrick was on duty at Wiggins’ when an incendiary bomb fell nearby, and he died later in hospital from his injuries.'

'The bombed part of the factory was the newest part of the factory complex, built only six years earlier for the manufacture of paint for Standard cars, hence its name The Standard'
 
I have now found more info - published after the war
It also seems he was listed as killed Rotten Park Street and the others at Dockers Paints so when I searched for the street only his name came up. (Tropman on BARAA but Trotman in the paper).
Birmingham Daily Gazette - Saturday 24 July 1948.jpg
 
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