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This post may explain a childhood memory, as I seem to remember 'helping' my nan Sheargold (110 Tower road) when she was doing her pin money work. Nan used to assemble brass document fasteners at home and they may have been from this factory, they consisted 2 parts, a small circular gear shaped...

Hi, I think I've finally worked out the location of my parents first house in Aston (see attached). As I think I've mentioned we always referred to the gully off Mansfield Road, which was basically a wide dirt track down to about 10 terraced houses in groups of 5 which faced each other. If I...

I know Dad worked for Harry Lewis plumbers and for a couple of years we went to Wales on our hols in the Bedford plumbers van. Dad used to sweep it out and lay down boards so that we sleep in it. Don't think we ever stayed at a proper camp site, it was always a farmers field with stand pipe...

Hi Robert, thank you so much for the pictures of mum and dad, I have forwarded them to my brothers Michael and Robert. It was interesting to find out Nan Dodson's actual address in Erdington too before she moved to Shard End and not far from were we used to live in Kingshurst (we used to visit...

Not John Sheargold (if you are referring to the 1 and bit year old me) sorry, I think we were just visiting nan and grandad Sheargold that day.

I haven't posted for ages, but I thought the attached images may be of interest at least in terms of small part of Brum history (circa 1960) Image 01: Me and my Nan in Tower Road (Violet Sheargold who had a novelty shop at the top of Potters hill) Image 02: Me again in Tower Road, no idea who...

They would have, their name William Dodson and Dorothy Margaret Dodson - married May/June 1958 (nee Sheargold)

I was born on February 1959 and lived at my grandmothers house (Mrs Sheargold - she had a shop that sold novelties on Potters Hill) in Tower Road until we moved to Mansfield Road around 1962/63

Hi Janice Just been looking at some maps online based on your information and my memory was jogged/kick started .. We actually lived at the back of Mansfield Road. I remember having a great time chasing around the alleyways. I recall having a plastic Werewolf mask (I actually wanted a Herman...

Hello all I am trying to find out the location of my first childhood home. Asking a lot but it was in Aston not far from Tower Road (possibly 3 - 5 streets away) I always knew at as the gully, as the houses (terraced) where set back from the road and accessed from an short unsurfaced road. I...