Hi Peg,
Born in Dudley Road Hospital, my baptism was at All Saints and the last entry on my Registration card is Abbey Street Birmingham 18, but we always seemed to be at Granny's house in Heaton Street! Can you ascertain anything from that Peg?
Don't forget Peg that my father was a Norfolk man and as Horatio Nelson famously said, "I am a myself a Norfolk man and glory in being so!"
Horton 10
Be of stout heart, Horton10, no-one will think it was your fault that as an infant you were uprooted from your beloved birthplace to a distant land beyond the horizon.
Do you think yourself a Brummie?
I'm afraid I might be the bearer of sad tidings, taking one definition of a Brummie as
Someone born inside the Inner Circle 8 Bus Route, born in Dudley Road Hospital is just outside
and it gets worse I'm not a Brummie either as I think I was also born in Dudley Road Hospital, so how close did the Inner Circle 8 run to us? - Along
Icknield Street.Worse thing for me is I've got the strongest Brummie accent imaginable, in fact if a Martian ever land the second think he would say after
Hello is
Wot part of Birmingham do you come from? Peg