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Recent content by Sandy green

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    Aston Brook Street

    Hi Lyn Did we ever find out the nature of this? Why it was done? Who done it? Did we have any suspicions? That is a lot a serious lot of photographs to lose that’s people’s history. It doesn’t even make sense to eradicate our history like that. Or maybe it does. Or maybe they’re just idiots...
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    Aston Brook Street

    That’s horrendous, so somebody deliberately hacked the site and destroyed everyone’s photo as a memories. How could someone be so violent and so better. Thank you, Lyn
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    Aston Brook Street

    Hi, do you have the picture? It looks like a few were missing on this page? Thank you.
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Just been down to check out the old memories. Playing on the canal, the ramp we used to come down on the go-kart. Aston Brook Street East.
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    Aston Brook Street/Chester Street

    These House is supposed to occupied until 1977 as far as I remember. We then had to move out because the council said they were knocking them all down. They had been officially condemned. And then we find out after University students are in them lol and rename it as the Green. Aston Brook...
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Hi Chester Street, sorry, I used to climb on the factory roof while the workers were doing there daily tasks lol
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    This is Chester Road and if you kept walking to the top turn left is how you used to get onto the canal as kids to go and play. On the right hand side is the. House is where the chicks The Williams the halls and the Birches lived. The Woodyard would be on the right hand side after the houses...
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    Aston Brook Street/Chester Street

    We were the Green family lived at number 24 from roundabout 1970 to 1981. They used to be steps up into the front door now they’ve just another window for the conversion. I remember Frank Knight written above The Shop and the windows were pretty bad. They just had like pictures of a coal fire or...
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