Reginald (Reg) Cutts was the oldest of eight children born to Mable Cutts and Joseph Staton on the 30th March 1909 in the small Mining Village of Clay Cross in Derbyshire. Life was hard and he didn’t have a happy childhood.

He started work down the Mine’s but that wasn’t the life for him, as soon as he was old enough he left home and went to work in Nottinghamshire for the Forestry Commission.  This job did not last long and around 1936 his uncle Tom bought him a suit and gave him what money he could afford and Reg came to Birmingham in the hope of finding work and a better life.

His first job in Birmingham was at Johnny Wright’s then by 1938 he was driving Buses for Birmingham City Transport.

In 1939 he married Edna Moseley and they moved into Rockville Road, Alum Rock where their two Daughters Alma & Georgina were born.

 

Reg played green Bowls for the transport and later for the Brookhill Public House, one year he was chosen to play for the County.

After leaving the City Transport around 1953 he got a job in the Car Industry as a Tool Stores Clerk at Fishers & Ludlow and he stayed there until he retired.

Reg was a very laid back person who always looked for the best in other people and was very sadly missed when he died in 1978.

Although over the years he took his family on visits to his birthplace in Clay Cross, he always thought of Birmingham as coming home.