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do take great care of yourself, we will all be thinking of you

I too use plastic bottles in the garden Maurice. I have 4 pint milk bottles, last winter, being fed up with losing certain plants every year, I cut the base off the bottles and placed them over the cut down plants. The plants were protected from the bitter wind, and got air through the neck...

I am so pleased to see these photos, and learn more, as in the 1901 census my aunt, Lillian Walker who was 14 years old is entered as a Coffin furniture worker. I assume she would have worked there. I am not too good at deciphering the handwriting on the old documents - there is a word before...

Sorry, I have no other Uptons, Jessie May Upton was my father's first wife. I just know they married in 1915 in Aston, she died 1928.

Your Suffolk puffs look great Shortie, I am sure anyone receiving them will treasure them and appreciate the work you have put into them. Regarding the Ribbons, don't forget if you are not going to be washing them you can colour them using felt tip pens, inks, even food colourings etc. People...

I do most of the recycling mentioned, so glad others do too. Shortie, as a crafter, I use those ribbons from the shoulders to make bows to use on greetings cards , they are also used to tie the tops of lavender bags and any perfumed soaps are put into muslin bags, tied with these ribbons and...

Do you by any chance have a Jessie May Upton in that family - she married Walter Walker in 1915 ?

Hope nobody minds my joining in, but you have brought back so many happy memories. I was Sunrise, from 1986 member of the "Golf Charlies" Letchworth Herts, where for some years I was the secretary, also from 1990 a life member of the "Bravo Hotel DX group (Beds & Herts)" Gave up in the late 90's...

I find I had a half brother, Wilbert Walker, born 27.11.1920, at 8,Truro Terrace, Bevington Road. Only other info. is "Christened and buried in Aston Church" I believe it was an infant or childhood death. I think his mother Jessie May Walker (nee Ilpton???) was also buried there. I understand it...

Thanks for that Mikejee, I have been looking at the maps and trying to imagine what life must have been like there back then. It will take me forever to trace everyone, but the maps make it seem more real to me, and that helps. Dawn

Thank you very much Mikejee for that info. and those great maps. I did tell you I am an idiot- I then proved it. Have looked again and it was 382, not 372 Witton Road, but the map you kindly put will still be relevant I'm sure. It was John & Clara Walker (my grandparents), Lillian M & Tilly...

Great to see these Aston photos, and see so many of you know so much about Aston. At last I have made slow, very muddled first steps in tracing my ancestry, and as "Aston" and "Aston Manor" keep appearing would be grateful if you could help me? Are Aston and Aston Manor the same? If a census...

Oh Maris, my heart skipped a beat when I saw your post. My father was in the R A O B in Birmingham. I know that in 1944 he was in Lodge 4043, Bournbrook. I don't know if that lodge still exists. I have peered at your photo, with racing pulse, but don't think he is in it - that would have...

I will never forget my best ever Christmas present. Christmas 1950, my parents had just finished paying years of installments for replacing the basics of furniture, since we had been "bombed out" in London. They scrimped and saved and for my Christmas and 8th birthday present they bought me...

Hi Alf, until 2003 I only had an open fire (just one) and an electric one which I moved around the house as needed. Eventually I bought a set of brushes and had a go, but we have a sharp bend in chimney and I didn't have the strength to push round it, so had to wait for a friend's husband to...