Recent content by IzzyBarbusseCEN

Taylor’s of Potters Hill burned down. MY school was close to the Aston fire station and we heard all the engines go out. I had to walk passed Taylor’s to go home and saw where those fire engines had gone. I’m sure it was never rebuilt.

We used to visit the garage in Lichfield in school holidays travelling to Lichfield by train. They lived in a very large old house at the rear of the garage with land around it. The garage is still there though I don’t think the house is still there. In 1966 when I married we bought a house in...

I lived at no.97 and Wendy was my friend.

I lived at 97 Park Lane, my friend was Wendy Lloyd who was the granddaughter of Alf . His garage was about 5 doors down going towards Aston cross, just below The black Horse pub in the other side of the road.

I was a friend of Wendy. The hairdresser used the front room of the Lloyds house. We used to travel by train in the school holidays to visit Wendy’s mum who lived in Lichfield where her parents ran a garage. when I married in 1966 I moved to Lichfield to live. I often think of Wendy as the...

one of my friends was Wendy Lloyd who lived with her grandparents Mr & Mrs Lloyd. I loved their house, it was very large and had a breakfast room!. I lived just a bit further up the road, just across the road from the Black Horse.

I LivEd opposite the Black horse until I married in 1966 and moved to Staffordshire.

I remember a Ken Bull from Tower Road

Did he live in Tower Road?

Did he live in Tower Road

I was at Waverley Grammar school between 1956 -1962.

I lived across the Road from the Black Horse pub and I am on the Coronation Day photograph along with several play mates and our immediate neighbours. Wendy, the granddaughter of the Lloyds was my best friend and she lived with them in the house adjoined to their garage. It was a very grand...