Hi ray
Nice to see you back on record again and by the way i have found one of clews cycle shop of monument road
in one of the several books i was looking i had three books all with the picture of clews family
the one i have found is a bit of distance shot but you can see the name clews and the intial
which i cannot quite make it out but in the other book it was in print under the picture of his shop
i think it was nicholas but i need to find that book with its writing under the shop
but any way i will post what i have got but i will still search out the other two missing books okay
And whilst i am on the topic of posting picture ,i have to thank you for the Aston road north topic
and the pictures of the shops , and just say you spelt jelfs incorrectly on the first paragraph
when mentionioning the cafe,s of jelf coffee shop on the aston cross rocky lane and park lane
So once again ray thanks for posting the pictures of the shops
i see the timpsons shop firstly my younger brother dave got his first job there at timpsons shoe shop
and of course good old woolworths and it was his first girl friend whom he got married to and she lived
around the corner from you and she was a superviser there as well at woolies
She was one of the Bagshaws family and they are still together after all these years
And yes the chemist was on the corner as you said then there was the chippie next to the chemist then the crocery hire and caturing by jelfs and then there other coffee shop with B,B lodgings all the tennnts was women according to the records
and theone across the road from taylors tooy shop lichfield road and at the bottom of park street around the corner of
Sandy lane and park street as well by the forge
ray do you recall the widdows arm on lichfield road by thompson the slaughter butchers next to the cake shop on lichfield road and of course mrs cocks shop facing
by the way you was correct about the bookie runner on sandy lane it was the right one old man williams as he now
he came back to england now from america his son is richard a top clas dance instructor across the globe
well ray i will end here for now hope to speak to you soon ,, Alan,,, Astonian,,