From Lozells to Harringay Road, 1931

When my parents were young they lived in the Inner City, my father lived at Berners Street, Lozells, and he met my mother when her family also moved to Berners Street. When they married in November 1930 they were waiting for a house on the new estate at Kingstanding, and they moved to Harringay Road early in 1931. My father had started work in a casting shop at the age of 14, and he later worked as a metal polisher in the Hockley area. My mother also worked in one of the Hockley factories, but gave up work when my brother was born in 1931. When I was a teenager she worked at I.M.I. Kynoch’s, in the sporting and loading section, operating a machine which filled shotgun cartridges with gunpowder. She was working there when an explosion occurred sometime in the 1960’s.