For those interested in Burlington Hall there’s a thread here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/burlington-hall-aston.50268/
Viv
Viv
Hi just seen this post... the pub was called The Golden Cross....not Aston Cross....Re: Aston..lozells and witton pics reposted
Hi Judy - I put the wrong name for the pub, it should be the 'Aston Cross Tavern'. I've had a look through the 'Another Old Pub' thread but cannot see any mention of this pub.
oldmohawk
Hi there... you are correct the pub was THE GOLDEN CROSS.. it was Never Aston cross pub..but because it was at aston cross people automatically called it that..and yes it did become ORieleys when a guy named warwick took it over and kim was the landlady..Re: Aston..lozells and witton pics reposted
Was the Aston Tavern/O'Reillys the old Golden Cross pub?
Judy
I was born at 71 Queens Rd 1952 we moved to Bordesley Green in the 1962 Mom wanted to go back to Aston we moved to 86 Queens Road in 1966 my Mom loved Old AstonI was also born in Aston in 1930, Queens Road, next door to Atkinsons Brewery, moved to Sheldon in 1935 then Shirley in 1939, then back to Queens Rd with our Nan when Mom died in 1943, I Ioved Aston then but not now. Eric
I seem to remember the Cook familyI was born at 71 Queens Rd 1952 we moved to Bordesley Green in the 1962 Mom wanted to go back to Aston we moved to 86 Queens Road in 1966 my Mom loved Old Aston
yer and i loved aston. in the 60sI was born at 71 Queens Rd 1952 we moved to Bordesley Green in the 1962 Mom wanted to go back to Aston we moved to 86 Queens Road in 1966 my Mom loved Old Aston
Better than Paris in the Springtime!yer and i loved aston. in the 60s
i would not know,never been to paris lol.Better than Paris in the Springtime!
Met my wife in 1959 on a Saturday evening in March at the jazz club, the rest is history.Here's my club card for the Americana, and Studio One (jazz) at the Golden Cross in 1959! Those were the days!
Met my wife in 1959 on a Saturday evening in March at the jazz club, the rest is history.
Bob
I think the GEC was on Witton road.Re: Aston and lozells pic reposted...
oh lol big gee your dad didnt sound best pleased....i really do love posting images that will bring back the memories as lets face it its mostly all we have now but like i always say they cant be taken away from us can they..
judy im sure someone on here will be able to say for certain but i think GEC was in electric avenue or if not it was close by...
ive got about another 60 to post but will do them tomorrow as im now getting posters cramp lol..
lyn
Hi Eric. I think it was Electric Avenue that my Dad also worked with Halladays.Blews St, No, it was on Electric Avenue, it was where I first worked (in the drawing office) on leaving school in 1944. Eric
I took your advice and went back to page one, the more I look at the buildings the more I wonder that if instead of tearing down whole districts the council had modernised the houses there would be less of a shortage of homes.
I lived with the ma-in law in Potter's Hill for four years in the 50s and although the house needed modernising, needing a bathroom etc it was a good sound building that would have lasted for another century with proper maintenance.