joe53

Yes thanks. I have come across a marriage in 1960 james Johnston to Margaret m Larkin. I got the reynoldson link also. Do they have old telephone directories to Coventry I could pick a year and ring every Johnstone in the book. But where to start and where to find them? I did trace my mum that way it was only the 4th entry but that was too easy from the nottingham directory as we use to have good phone books in them days.

Thank you .it might give me an address to start with of course it could no longer exist as redevelopment takes over but it's worth a go .are you of the same opinion that this is the only entry for james of the time as I couldn't find any others.if so I'll send of for this one when payday arrives ,like you said I don't want to be paying out on a wild goose Chase!!

Thanks davidw for taking the time. I am lost at this research thing, what other info could I get from the Johnston entry if only to rule it out? I have tried to follow on from the birth record to a marriage record somewhere between 1958 and 1966 as he was married before he met my mum. Where are the archives I would need to look at Joe

Hi, thanks for having a look. My grandma is iris esswood nee maddock and my mum is linda esswood(daughter)' I don't have much info on james and have not had any look finding out much at all.on my adoption records his name is spelt Johnstone with the e. He was believed to be from Coventry and married when he came to be lodging at Leonard terrace. He was known as Jimmy 24 at the time and linda( mum) would have been 16' my notes say he was in prison when I was born in 1967 for larceny.and that's really all I know. I traced my mum's side of the family 17 years ago but she will not give me any inf

Thank you I came across this page as I am searching for my dad from 1967 ,but I have totally been sidetracked by all the old photos and memories!

Thank you Cliff ton I never new where I was born till recently as I was adopted and use to regularly visit my adopted grandad at Garfield road which is just doing the corner. So close and I never knew.

Does any one remember my grandad Harry Nix he and May lived at number 3 Garfield road and,then May (aunt) I think her name was May Ganny or little May lived at the other end of that terrace as kids we use to run up the back joining alley from one to the other. They had a daughter Mavis Nix I know she went to manning school,not sure which infants.

I remember walking down the boulevard to see my dad hanging out of the players clock! He was at Radford on the maintenance team I think he was having a crafty fag.then he got moved to the horizon place.

My grandparents lived at 3 Garfield road Harry Nix. And my biological grandma lived at 12 Leonard terrace. My dad worked at players and a relation had a shop I think it was just of the boulevard at the start of Denman street we always called the aunt gene &auntie betty I think think their mum lived on Garfield road as well and think her name was Ganny

The best thing about Radford that I can remember and this is probably a bit strange is when it rained. The roof tiles & cobbles made everything shiney!

I have not seen it before the terraces are not always named on maps just the roads & streets.was this near Garfield road?

Hi do anyone live at Leonard terrace I the 60s or 70s?

Hi forum I'm new here I've been looking through the old Radford pages and brings back so many memories. Joe

Hi forum. Desperately seeking. I was not born in Radford but remember visiting grandparents on Garfield road I think it was no 3. And I have just discovered that my biological grandma lived at 12 Leonard terrace at the same time.I am searching for a man called james Johnstone who was lodgeing at Leonard terrace in 1967 I believe he was from Coventry and was probably came here for work. He was 24 years old at the time .Does anyone remember him? My grandmas name was iris esswood at the time and I've been told was living with a Margaret pegg.also with 2 daughters Lynn and sue. Does any one re