Hi All I am trying to find a coal merchant named George Hickman's from the early 1900+ in Kelly's Directives , In the directives for 1932 the firm had already been taken over by R B Tudor, Albion Wharf West Bromwich , , the buildings are still there but dropping apart , its at the side of the canal by J S Lee's I am sure allot of you who come from West Bromwich had coal from there has it was one of the big coal merchants in its day My hubbies gr grandparent George Hickman's used to own it and according to what my mother in law always said when her grandfather was called up for WW1 the person he left in charge, sent it bankrupt I am trying to sort this out has to me George Hickman was to old to be in WW1 , mother in law also said that his wife hanged herself on the loo after they went bankrupt because of the same With the dates I have for deaths and ages at birth none of it makes sense So if any one has any Kelly's Directories with this coal merchants in or when R B T udor first started I might be about to sort some of it out Cheers Cassy Assistant Admin Black Country Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists

Hi All Just to thank everyone for there help in this , Still trying to find it , but I do now know , my mother in law had got some thing really missed up Thanks again Cassy Assistant Admin Black Country Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists ----- Original Message > Hi All > I am trying to find a coal merchant named George Hickman's from the > early > 1900+ in Kelly's Directives , > In the directives for 1932 the firm had already been taken over > by R B Tudor, Albion Wharf West Bromwich , , the buildings are still > there > but > dropping apart , its at the side of the canal by J S Lee's > I am sure allot of you who come from West Bromwich had coal from there > has > it was > one of the big coal merchants in its day > My hubbies gr grandparent George Hickman's used to own it and > according > to what my mother in law always > said when her grandfather was called up for WW1 the person he left in > charge, sent it bankrupt > I am trying to sort this out has to me George Hickman was to old to be in > WW1 , mother in law also said that > his wife hanged herself on the loo after they went bankrupt because of > the > same > With the dates I have for deaths and ages at birth none of it makes > sense > So if any one has any Kelly's Directories with this coal merchants in > or > when R B T udor first started I might be about to > sort some of it out > Cheers > > Cassy > Assistant Admin Black Country > Potteries, and Wolverhampton Lists > > > ------------------------------------- > The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run > by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >