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  1. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    Dad mentioned that during the war a bomb landed in the garden near your house, he thinks it might have been the next house along. Do you know anything about that?
  2. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    May and Les Chapman (49 Holte Road) with Martha Brueton
  3. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    My dad used to fix shoes in their shed at 49. Dad remembers the watches too.
  4. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

  5. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    Dad recognises the name, he knew your family, how wonderful!
  6. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    Here’s a photo of May and Les Chapman from 49 Holte Road with Martha (Donovan) Brueton
  7. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    Yep, fantastic aren’t they. Dad says when they went on those early trips they were the only ones in the street that went camping. Clearly it was a trend to catch on
  8. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    What were your parents names Jean?
  9. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    Here are some more for you, one from the same camping trip of Harold and little Rosie Brueton with their parents Martha and Fred (also of Holte Road) and my Dad Dennis (the young boy). the other photo is of Fred on his motorbike with Rosie and my Dad outside number 49 Holte Road. These camping...
  10. J

    Holidays spent in Wales as a child.

    Here’s a couple of snaps taken in just such a holiday. This is my dad Dennis Chapman (49 Holte Road) having a wash with his Uncle Sonny Price, I believe on holiday in Llandudno. The old army tents and camping stuff were transported by lorry and the family travelled by motorbike and sidecar to...
  11. J

    Birmingham Schools Football History / & photos

    Here are a series of photos taken during the late 1930s of the Station Road School Football Team and Deykin Avenue School football and cricket teams. My father, Dennis Chapman (of 49 Holte Road) is back right in the Station Road photo, second left in the Deykin Avenue School 1938-40 football...
  12. J

    Morris & Howes Sweet Shop Park Rd Aston

    There was a grocers on the corner, there was a newspaper shop and radio shop opposite. Not too far away was a Drs, the Post Office and Corn Store (pet shop), plus an ice place where you went to get ice to make ice cream in the days before you could freeze you own ice.
  13. J

    Morris & Howes Sweet Shop Park Rd Aston

    It cost my parents about £1500 to buy in about 1957-58. They bought it through a company based in Corporation Street.
  14. J

    Morris & Howes Sweet Shop Park Rd Aston

    My mother and father Dennis and Olwyn Chapman bought the sweet shop at 107 and I was born there in 1961. Not sure if they purchase it in 1955 but certainly they were there soon after. I'd love to see photos if anyone has any.
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