Mike Hoskison: Upholding the family tradition
“My grandad used to build motorcycles in Digbeth, but in 1922 he went bankrupt, so when he started up in the scrap metal trade he couldn’t do it in his own name. As he was bankrupt he used his wife, Elsie Beebee’s name when he came to Birmingham. The business was non-ferrous metals – brass, copper, aluminium, stainless steel – and we did very well in the Sixties and Seventies, which, consequently, made it very easy for us when we decided to
