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Parliament Street Aston

brummy-lad said:
Hi Lyn,

There is a picture in the pubs section on John Houghton's website.

John
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ok john i only ask because the library have one and i am up there on saturday...will have a look at johns site as it maybe a different shot of the pub to the one the library has...unfortunately they say they have no pics of the street but i will double check that myself on sat..

ly
 
Lyn, just for clarification there were no pubs in Parliament Street. The Clarendon Arms (my mom & dad's local) was on the corner of Clarendon Street and Upper Webster Street.
 
sylviasayers said:
Lyn, just for clarification there were no pubs in Parliament Street. The Clarendon Arms (my mom & dad's local) was on the corner of Clarendon Street and Upper Webster Street.
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thanks syv..that saves me from looking for any in parliament st..

lyn
 
hi brummie lad
number four was where my mother was brought up as the only child and yes i can also remember john ;on here said many years ago now possible about nine years ago when parliment street was brought up then and he said on thread then he lived across the other side of the posher houses
and thats what he told me my mother and her familywas on the slightly posher side with slight different windows he said and i think my grand mother on my fathers side
was then name eliebeth jenning with her kids whom now and ended up as step sisterts i found out through this forum then she married a stevens
and they lived at that yard and i beleive the records confiormed it which was given to me by john or another member of the forum
that possible no, 6 ; jenning cart bussiness i do not know if jenning was married before my grand mother had thre or four kids with her at jenning house hold
i surley would to have seen a number 4 house thou to see what type of house it was when she was a kid
best wishes astonian;
 
Great photo's ....I not seen either before, the second photo is taken from Upper Webster Street end of Parliament street, with the even number house's being shown......the first photo shows the corner of Park Lane and Parliament Street, I think the family living in the first house in Parliament street was named Mountford, Mountjoy, something along those lines, and before it was converted into a house it was a shop, the last tenant was Roly Morris who use to sell lino, this was in the late 1950's and early 1960's.......
 
we used to live at 49 till 1969.
I think my mom used to mention someone who lived at (or over?) the corner shop over the road - that would be on the corner of Upper Webster St. I think, who was in Crossroads - if I remember right - maybe Carlos (the chef) - can't remember his real name.
 
The shop you refer to Maz was McHugh's in my time, don't know the story of anyone appearing in Crossroads who lived there.
 
Astoness said:
...i feel sure that there are more to come of parliament st as the library still have not made the index cards available so i will keep pushing for them..
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that would be brilliant
So far haven't seen any with our stretch on - although I know my mom must have a photo that dad would have took with us 3 kids standing in front of the Alfred Roberts van he was driving with at that time, parked out outside our house (49).
Would have been about '66 as I remember that my little sister looks about 2 in it (she's 50 on Sunday :D )
 
I've just got my 2 x gt.grandmother's Death Certificate, showing that she died at 32a Parliament Street in 1898. Lyn (Astoness) kindly told me about this thread as I was hoping to find a photo of the street. On Google Maps it is all new housing now. The photos that have been posted here give me some idea of what it looked like, and I wonder if 32a might have been perhaps a house in flats? Or could it have been a back to back house?

Judy
 
Judy.....if you take a look at the second photograph in this thread, number 32a would have been where the couple on the pavement talking.......
 
Thanks Aston Lad - you are a star! I just wanted to visualise the house and now I have done.

Judy
 
As Aston Lad says, just where the children are. As can be seen from the map, no 32 is next to the gap, and 32a is the next one to that.

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judy how lucky is that....only two photos and you have your gt gt grans house

lyn
 
Absolutely brilliant Mike. Thanks so much. Gives me a bit more meat on my family history. Now I just have to find out why she moved there from 2 x Ct 27 Clifton Road where she'd lived for ages!

Yes, Lyn - how lucky is that? This Forum comes up trumps every time!

Judy
 
hi folks..here is another one parliament st on the right...sirks pigeon shop on the corner..the entry on the far right is where john houghton lived at back of 15 i think...brummy lad is your no 7 on this photo

lyn
 

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The last 2 houses were either 27 and 29, or 25 and 27.......the old pigeon shop was occupied by Asian men during the mid to late 1960's......, sorry to say as a child along with other little barstools we would set fire to their door around bonfire night by putting fireworks into the letterbox, also the bottom windows had a mesh in front on them, to stop us throwing stones through them.......Yes I was a little poo, but my children were never allowed to do anything like that......
 
The last 2 houses were either 27 and 29, or 25 and 27.......the old pigeon shop was occupied by Asian men during the mid to late 1960's......, sorry to say as a child along with other little barstools we would set fire to their door around bonfire night by putting fireworks into the letterbox, also the bottom windows had a mesh in front on them, to stop us throwing stones through them.......Yes I was a little poo, but my children were never allowed to do anything like that......the person in the photo was named Michael...he had leaning difficulty's .....another great photo Lyn
 
thanks aston lad so the numbers go higher towards the shop then..shame no 7 is not showing...
actually i was lucky to get this one as i was looking for photos of burlington st and this one came up showing more of parliament st lol...

lyn
 
From the shop when we lived there number 27 Mrs Salt 25 Mrs Plumb 23 Mrs Griffiths 21 Mr Simmons 19 Mr Tustin (APR air raid warden during the war 17 Mrs Speaks 15 Mr Bithell we lived at 1 bk 15 that's down the last entry
Stirks shop was number 1 Burlington street
Thanks to Photographic Historian Lyn for this and other local photographs which as brought back many memories for me.
 
always happy to help john and thanks for the info...so pleased that we have found your entry lol

lyn
 
Hi Lyn,

What a fantastic picture, brings back memories but unfortunately our house No 7 is off the picture on the right.

These pictures are still turning up and I live in hope that one day no. 7 will appear like magic.

Incidentally my mum is still alive (she is 94 now) she has lost a lot of her memory of recent times but still talks of Parliament Street and Park Lane.

Many thanks, John
 
brummy-lad said:
Hi Lyn,

What a fantastic picture, brings back memories but unfortunately our house No 7 is off the picture on the right.

These pictures are still turning up and I live in hope that one day no. 7 will appear like magic.

Incidentally my mum is still alive (she is 94 now) she has lost a lot of her memory of recent times but still talks of Parliament Street and Park Lane.

Many thanks, John
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hi john...so near yet so far for your no 7 but like i always say they are out there somewhere...just like your mom our memories never fade..cant take them away from us...glad you liked the pic..

lyn
 
Good to see another photo of Parliament Street Lyn. I am now building up a picture of where my 2 x gt.grandmother lived.

Judy
 
Thanks for the pics Lyn; my maternal grandmother Edith Green was born at number 11 Parliament St on 8 November 1889.
 
bewdley said:
Thanks for the pics Lyn; my maternal grandmother Edith Green was born at number 11 Parliament St on 8 November 1889.
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happy to help bewdley...always on the look out for pics of this street as they are very few and far between..

lyn
 
Hi john
My mother as a child lived at number 4 so that's three doors away from your old house
She was there so you or your parents would have k own my grand parents
Namely the Jelfs and also my other grand mother was married to Mr Jennings
The Cartier and hand carts in those earlier years of the period
I would like to see what number 4 looked like
Jelfs moved out to ashed row then to new canal street digbeth ajoing the the typoo factory
And they had the coffee houses around Aston cross and Alma street and Lichfield road
And Tyburn road and they ran a lot of them around the city
My other grand mother the stevens left and moved to white house street Aston
Area doors from the chinns parents
Thank you Lynn for starting and getting the pictures of good old parilment street
Back on site. Best wishes Astonian,,,, Alan,,,,,
 
Hope somebody can help with this, sadly my Mum, Edith Mary Leroux nee Keight (formerly of 7 Parliament Street) passed away a week ago aged 96. This picture was amongst her belongings, I think it consists of Keight family members.

Interestingly on the back it has the photographer's name as Barnett & Cooper of 18, Parliament Street, Aston. Can anybody throw any light on this company and indeed when they were operating from No. 18 ? I was unaware that a photographic shop ever existed in Parliament Street.

Thank you, JohnKeight or Hayes Family.jpg
 
hello john firstly please accept my condolances on the loss of your mom...secondly what a smashing photo it looks to have been taken many years ago (possibly early 1900s) so maybe back then there was a photographer in parliament st..what we need is a kellys directory look up for you...unless other members can do this for you i will have a look later on today

lyn
 
Hi Lyn, thanks for your quick reply, yes it was a very sad day for us last Sunday, we always thought that Mum would reach 100 as she always had a fantastic appetite but weighed nothing, she has suffered with dementia for 3 years which is so difficult for relatives.
My granddad was from a family of 13 children, I feel sure that picture is of some of them and knowing the date when the photographer was working in Parliament Street would certainly help.
I have retrieved many really old family photographs from Mum's house, unfortunately no date or names on the back (I think most of us are probably guilty of that though).
Many thanks, John
 
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