Eric was born in November 1923, in Holloway Head, Birmingham, he was one of 11 children born to Charles Hill a Master Slater whose family originated in Stourbridge and his Wife ‘Elizabeth’ the daughter of James Paddock a Brass Caster of Holloway Head, Birmingham.
 
Apart from a lot of other addresses, he grew up in Phillips Street Aston; he went to Marsh Hill open air School, Burlington Street Junior and Upper Thomas Street Senior Schools.

 He was a Despatch Rider in the War 1939-45 and on leaving he settled into a trade in the Bicycle (Hercules) and then the Car Making business, first at the Morris in Adderley Road where he worked permanent nights as a Stores man and then a spell at the Metropolitan Cammell as a Stores man in Drews Lane. 

 Eric married Joyce Hambleton in 1946 and they had four Children, Linda, Shirley, Glenys and Eric jnr.  

 After 6 years in lodgings with an Aunt at 1/34 Freeman Road, they got a three-bedroom house at 100 Duddeston Mill Road, where they lived until the area was redeveloped and they were given a new house on the Bromford Estate in 1967.

Sadly Just after being made redundant for the second time and only two years before he was due to retire, Eric suffered a series of Stroke’s and passed away age just 63 in December 1986.

He was a well-loved Husband; Father of four, a Grandfather of 10 and a Great Grandfather of 11 children he is missed by all of them.