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  1. Don Clive

    Starting work at Fourteen

    There must be a number of members who started their working life at Fourteen, I did, I left school, St Mary's Aston Brook at Easter, at that time, you finished your schooldays at elementary school at the start of the next school holidays after you were Fourteen, Girls and Boys. This was 1946...
  2. Don Clive

    Frank Knights Coal Wharf

    Does anyone remember Frank Knights coal wharf in Chester Street, Aston, it was situated at the junction of Chester street and Aston Brook street, it was a real coal 'wharf', inasmuch as the the coal was delivered to the wharf by canal. It had it's own canal 'arm', also stabling for horses that...
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