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