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Aston Village

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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
A lovley photo of Aston Village. Courtesy Maria Twist/ Birmingham Central Library. 1868.
 

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Demolition of Westbrook House in Aston Village, dating back to the 15th century. Presumably there’s photographic records held by the museum as part of their detailed recording of the building.Viv.

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If that house in the photo is where I think it was, then I have a vague memory of its being a doctor's surgery, maybe in the early 1950's. Can anyone confirm this or otherwise, please?

G
 
Hi Lyn,

thanks for the heads-up re: the other thread - no, I don't think I've seen it, but some really good photos from way back when.... I used to walk my girlfriend from our house in The Broadway down to Aston Station, and usually had a swift half in the Aston Hotel on the way home.

Re: Westfield House, I have a very shadowy memory of my mother taking me there to see a doctor, when our own Dr Rosenfield in Bevington Road was away. Unfortunately, I can't remember the doctor, or his name.

Also regarding Westfield House, my parents were good friends with one of the churchwardens at Aston, and I can remember him telling us that the house was a lot older than it looked from the outside; I think he said it was originally built during the reign of Henry VII or the VIII. But that's only heresay, of course.

G
 
hi G thanks for those memories...i thought you had missed that thread...i cant be sure but i think the name of the doctor at westfield house is on that thread somewhere if not i will ask a mate of mine whos mom used to clean for him

all the best G

lyn
 
A view of Aston Village in 1827 from Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire. Not sure about this but think the 3 low structures to the right of the church must be the gateway to Aston Hall - now demolished.

Viv.

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The gateway in 1941 from Historic England.

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The meandering River Tame broadens out in the foreground, possibly where Aston Reservoir is now ? If so the point from where the illustration was drawn could be close to Spaghetti Junction.
 
Hard to imagine it. Thanks Pedro.

There’s a building behind the trees (red dot). Initially I thought it was probably a farm as there’s a cart and livestock or horses (?) nearby. But it seems to have a decoration on the apex of the roof. Is it something more significant ? It’s quite close to the river too. Viv.

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A shot in the dark but could the building be a mill or an early pumping station ? Or something completely different ? Viv.
 
If you imagine being in Aston Hall, looking toward the building, past the Church. That building would be quite picturesque by the riverside. Maybe it was a farmhouse, or even a barn tarted up to make it look like part of the Estate. A bit like a Foll
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A shot in the dark but could the building be a mill or an early pumping station ? Or something completely different ? Viv.
It looks like there are two mill races cutting across the bend in the river Tame, one from north to south and the other west to east. I think it makes a mill a possibility.
 
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