Happy Black Country Day! 🏭🥳🍻

MayBee if you mean Hockley in the West Midlands. Wasn't a nice place when I was growing up in the black country. There is another Hockley think it's down south somewhere.

It’s the Hockley where Cathy Come Home was filmed. It took me right back to my childhood in the back to backs in Brum. The National Trust back to backs in the city centre are like palaces compared to the ones I grew up in! There’s an area of Nottingham called Hockley, too. Mind you, my Hockley is now called Newtown and it’s as grim now as it was then!

Cathy come home was mostly filmed in London. Back to back house scene was filmed in Hingeston st Brookfields Brum.

Parts of Hockley (Birmingham) are lovely. The Jewellery Quarter is in Hockley and there are nice pubs and bars.

Whiff

Cathy come home was mostly filmed in London. Back to back house scene was filmed in Hingeston st Brookfields Brum.

It’s the street next to where I lived as a child.

Kate1949

Parts of Hockley (Birmingham) are lovely. The Jewellery Quarter is in Hockley and there are nice pubs and bars.

My family are buried at Warstone Lane cemetery. They do really interesting tours of that and Key Hill cemetery.

Thats interesting MayBee.

They found the family grave for me. I thought is was just ours but it was a second hand grave and had 400 other occupants!

Amazing.

I’d thought it was the only remotely posh thing about my family, too