Hello all and thank you for an amazing few hours scrolling through the photos and memories of Alum Rock, Saltley, Nechells. I spent a lot of my early years with my grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Gething, in Havelock Road (117 to be exact) and have very fond memories of Mrs. Brookes' sweet shop where she would come through from her back living room into the small shop and weigh the sweets out of the glass jars onto the old fashioned scales with the weights. Happy days! My grandparents house was opposite Mr. & Mrs. Perks Barbers Shop. Does anyone have any knowledge of this end of Havelock Road? I can even remember a lot of the neighbours although I am going back over 50 years!!! Mrs Dunn lived at 115, Mrs. Hindley lived at 113, a girl called Geraldine lived at 111 and Mrs. Biers lived at 109 next to the gulley leading to the backgardens. Originally my grandparents lived in the back-to-back houses through a gulley from Wright Road. Does anyone remember a family called Pearcewright (my gran's family)? I cannot find them on any of the census papers but I have other information that definately says they lived in Nechells/Duddeston area. The Bourne part of my family also came from there but they too are missing from any census. Look forward to any of your memories and photos if there are any.