NextBackFrom the Town end of Mount Pleasant, branch the two roads known as Ipsley Street and Evesham Street but which were known locally as “Back Hill” and “”Front Hill”.
Down the Right hand side of back Hill we start at the “Blackhorse” Pub before houses and the Salvation Army building and more houses before we get to Oswald Street then the Builders Yard.
Smith & Spencer’s and the Pop Factory were before the British Needle Factory (later Redditch Building Supplies and Edwards) then the junction with Smallwood Street.
The “Warwick Arms” Pub & Car Park occupy most of the next block before we reach Lodge Road with Millsborough House, the Terry’s Spring Factory on the other side. Millsborough house occupies a substantial site from Lodge Road to Millsborough Road.
From the top of Back Hill, on the left hand side of “Back Hill”, we have the “Plough & Harrow” Pub, (later the Liberal Club and recently 2011 demolished,) followed by some houses then the Back of the infamous Skinners Building (a bomb site) and the “Skinners Arms” with Skinners Street leading off which led through to George Street
Just further along on the north side of Back Hill is Ipsley Row, another link to George Street, which had a Milliners shop, a Greengrocers (Johnsons?), the Redditch Youth Club, the warden of which was John Dunlop. After some Houses there was a Shoemender run by Mr Len Thornet, more houses before we come to Jubilee Outdoor run by Mrs Stokes (later Len Wilkins) whom we also met on the Red Lion Street Walk.
The next major road of the North side of Back Hill before reaching Poole Place was Red Lion Street.
