THANKS ! admin for your help with this, very useful indeed !
Also very interesting for me, as it points to a time when Birmingham was still a centre of industry aka the "workshop of the World", I especially like the cycling links as I've just been catching-up on today's Tour de France. Also for the update re Victor Gittings, his parents were indeed Richard Gittings and Kate(nee Jones).

Also thanks for pointing me even more towards a FindMyPast subscription, given their 1939 Register access. I do seem to spend as much time researching recent ancestors, or their friends, as I do researching the very early ones which I suspect interests most researchers.

Thanks again everyone.