sh, you ask what the area was like, well, there is/was a main road called Bristol Rd, on one side is an area called Balsall Heath, and on the other is Edgbaston,
Balsall Heath was a run down slum area, which was not a nice place to live, poor housing drunks,pimps, and ladies of the night, it had its good and bad points, but it was home to many people,
Edgbaston was the snob area, where before the war ( 1940-1945) the large houses had maids that would shoo you away from the door, the upper class lived there ( they still do in some parts, ).
well Spring Street was just on the edge of Balsall Heath and Edgbaston, it was a nice area, the roads near there all had trees and small gardens on the front, they were big houses, with 4-8 bed rooms ( spring St, had 2-3 bed rooms
) so you could sat that the Ashforths had one foot in the mud, and the other on the grass.............. John 2000