Shops On The High Street

A Memory of Brierley Hill.

I was born in chapel street number 14wich was the back of a shop next to gittens it was owned by mrs price who also lived there at the back of the house my grandmother dolly perry had 2 shops along the high street and a lodging house which was mostly ocupied by irish men who came to do our roads ect i have lots of happy memories of the area and can recall most areas as we spent many hours playing in the area summer was spent on the little park playing in the pool bradleys fields down the dell beside the school ,on our way to brockmoor school down bell street it was a common site to see blood running down the road dont no what would be said today those. Were the days. Della ward nee payne