Property: 21 Alcester Street ln year: 1871

Occupant: James B. Phillips aged:  57  Born:  Birmingham

Trade: Retired Auctioneer –

Notes: Wife Elizabeth (54) Fishing Tackle Maker plus 1 daughter + 1 servant. On the 1881 census Elizabeth was now a widow and still lived at 21 Alcester Street but no numbers stated on this census but seem to be at this number along the street. On the 1861 census they lived in Victoria Street, Redditch. In the 1855 Billing’s Directory and Gazetteer James was classed as Auctioneer and Appraiser and Leather Dealer, Unicorn Hill. In the Jones’s 1865 Mercantile Directory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire James was Fishing Tackle maker, Auctioneer, Appraiser and House Agent, Alcester Street.

Source: JC – Census