Well firstly, welcome to rootschat Bob!, its a wonderful site im sure you'll find it as helpful as i do!...
And thank you for the info!, I too was born in Bradmore, and still live here lol, tho for me it was only 1971.. My mom too, was norn in Bradmore, in 1933
I knew that the gunmakers was previously,the last of the terrace houses that are still there to the side of the pub, (in the trysul road side) and I have a pic of it being there in 1913 (with the pub as it is now, being re-built in the 20's)
But I never knew about it having been on the opposite side of the road, but had always wondered why they had that small car park over the road while they also had that big car park to the rear of the pub (and they have now built two houses on half of the big rear car park!) and im now even more curious at to which, where, number 3 would actually have been... is the current number 3 church road the original? if so, what hapenne to number 1 and 2 LOL, Yes I did know of the Bradmore switching sides, but what you have told me of the gunmakers now ... I hadnt heard before!
I was telling my mom of it this morn, and she also told me that besides that lil car park, where wenlock ave now sits, used to be...(when she was around 15) a wide dirt track/path with bushes to its side, that led into a great big field, there was a shed in the field too apparently, and walking up the path, (as if walking up wenlock) she thinks to the right there were also gardens with a big house, possibly a timber one... Im wondering if this was an original farm that was there? or a remainder of it...
I have an 1880s map that shows that wenlock patch, as being called Havelock Place (today I guess that is remembered by the road opposite, Maple road leading into Havelock Place)