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Church Lane and Church Road, Aston
- Thread starter Astoness
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Re: church lane and church road..aston
Does any body recall isleys coal yard at the church lane and victoria rd
i beleive the woman married into the jelfs as i have been told or it was vice a versa
jelf married an isley i have recently learnt and that they made or sold the isley pistols or guns and had a shop in carrs lane in the city
best wishes astonian
Does any body recall isleys coal yard at the church lane and victoria rd
i beleive the woman married into the jelfs as i have been told or it was vice a versa
jelf married an isley i have recently learnt and that they made or sold the isley pistols or guns and had a shop in carrs lane in the city
best wishes astonian
Re: church lane and church road..aston
yes i used to fetch all the coal for our neighbours for sixpence a time you had to go to the coal yard fill up with hundred weight of coal then haul it down to their house then take back the barrow or do it again if someone else wanted coal, the barrows weighed more than the coal !!!! we used to earn money chopping up firewood and filling a pram with bundles and selling them door to door, but the best was when villa played at home we "mind your car please sir" and had our own patch ours was bright street (why they called it that i dont because all the street lights were smashed) we filled up the street and then sneaked off home until the match finished and return to rake in the cash, then home to mom,give her half and my brother and i split the rest. things we did for pocket money now they charge a fiver a time! dave
yes i used to fetch all the coal for our neighbours for sixpence a time you had to go to the coal yard fill up with hundred weight of coal then haul it down to their house then take back the barrow or do it again if someone else wanted coal, the barrows weighed more than the coal !!!! we used to earn money chopping up firewood and filling a pram with bundles and selling them door to door, but the best was when villa played at home we "mind your car please sir" and had our own patch ours was bright street (why they called it that i dont because all the street lights were smashed) we filled up the street and then sneaked off home until the match finished and return to rake in the cash, then home to mom,give her half and my brother and i split the rest. things we did for pocket money now they charge a fiver a time! dave
brenda barr
master brummie
Re: church lane and church road..aston
Astoness, no1 is church lane..l knew it well my gd/parents bill and alice coates lived and died there and every saturday it was a ritual shopping with mom ...after Thompsons we always went down to visit my g/parents in church lane, they both died in 1946 within 10 days of each other..thank you for the pictures.....Brenda
Astoness, no1 is church lane..l knew it well my gd/parents bill and alice coates lived and died there and every saturday it was a ritual shopping with mom ...after Thompsons we always went down to visit my g/parents in church lane, they both died in 1946 within 10 days of each other..thank you for the pictures.....Brenda
cookie273uk
master brummie
I lved in Queens Road in 40's and 50's, Church Lane ran across the top end with the' Queens' pub on the corner (on the right of Pic 2 but but out of sight. I am puzzled as to where those new looking buildings are (behind the van and car)in the distance in Pic 1, I thought it was Church Lane looking towards the Tavern in Aston Hall Rd but cannot be. Mysterious ??? Eric
G G Jean
Brummy Wench.
oh great these were our local shops fantastic, the drug store was run by a old lady that could really lay lay into any cheeky children with her tounge and next door was the grocery shop where we got our 2 fags for sixpence!!!! trying to think of the name of the woman who run it ? bunty ? or something like that, wish someone had a photo of the newsagent opposite but hey never mind thank you Astoness you are a true brummie
dave
dave
cookie273uk
master brummie
C (Charlie) Drinkwater was my Nans butcher in the !950's and 60's she swore by him and never went any where else, she told me he was in the RAF during the War on the Barrage Ballons
HI;
I recall old mr drinkwater from aston church lane nechells from many years ago
when i was in my youth at the bromford tube limited in bromford i was his asstintant on a draw tube machine
when learning tube drawing first he was an asstanted to a guy of a german oringin then he got promoted
to a tube bench on his own and i got assigend to him as a asstistant to him
I recall old mr drinkwater from aston church lane nechells from many years ago
when i was in my youth at the bromford tube limited in bromford i was his asstintant on a draw tube machine
when learning tube drawing first he was an asstanted to a guy of a german oringin then he got promoted
to a tube bench on his own and i got assigend to him as a asstistant to him
You might find something of interest on this thread here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/tubes-limited.74/page-11
Viv.
Viv.
Thank you, I know this is part of the Tubes, Im looking for Bromford tubes on Bromford lane erdington. My Grandfather used to work there in the 50'S
Richard Dye
master brummie
My mothers brother and wife lived on Church Lane. Bill & Agnes Forknall. They had a daughter Agnes who became a Chartered Accountant. When I emigrated to the US they were the last family I visited before going to the boat. I so clearly remember leaving their house on my bike going past Aston and Villa parks up Trinity Rd on to Heathfield Rd to Handsworth!
