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I think all the maps prior to 1870 showed it as Garibaldi Road. I have a couple that do. This is a Bartholomew's version, maybe a little later than yours as it shows Witton Road (unnamed). The house I lived in on Albert Rd had a plaque saying it was built in 1862 and it was named after Albert as...

These two photos bring back a lot of memories. Mom would trek up to Lozells to do the shopping. Sometimes, we would tag along. Whenever we got there, we would make a beeline for the petshop and toyshop and press our noses against the windows. We used to bring our kittens to that petshop once...

Pretty sure those are Aston, not Handsworth. I grew up in one of those houses with the plaque above the passage. Alas, Salathiel is no more.

I was born on Albert Rd in Aston. For its first ten years up until at least 1870, it was called Garibaldi Rd until it changed to partner Victoria Rd running parallel to it.

Nothing was replaced. The old building complex is on Albert Road and the additional new building on Frederick Road overlooking the park. If anything made way for the new building then it would have been houses. From what I remember, most of the adjoining houses next to the school buildings were...

Thanks for the thought but I won't even click on a FB link, so I'll have to give this a miss.

I went to KEGS Aston in the 70s. I still remember the prefab hut in the playground. For reasons never made clear to anyone it was referred to as the terrapin hut. Mr Jessop was still there and I remember Mrs Cook but she only served teachers lunch. There were a couple of other dinner ladies...

I have spotted both of the Maps of Birmingham volumes on Abebooks, both for upwards of £20 plus postage. Given the rudimentary nature of their publication and their rather "preloved" state of repair, they are fetching a pretty penny. Someone must be interested.

Link to the entire collection here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160517164557/http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/teacher/history/jm_jones/index.htm The booklets are downloadable from each section all in .LIT format ebooks. You can use Calibre to convert to PDF or any...

OK. Just going back through the above link, the rest appear to be there. I am going to download a few booklets and attach them here in PDF form. Unfortunately, a few of them are too large for the server to handle here so I shall have to find a sharing site for those.

Digging up this old thread. This booklet has become hard to find since being long out of print. There is one copy for sale at the moment in the country that I am aware of - from Stella Books (not a cheap bookshop at the best of times) and can be had via eBay if you really want a printed copy...

I used to get my hair done there before it vanished. I remember Kevin as one of the barbers. He had a shop in Witton I went to before he closed it and joined the team at Burberry's.

Born and dragged up on Albert Rd, Aston until I was 18. Moved a lot since but am now in Sutton Coldfield.

I only have very vague memories of this place as it went when I was still quite young but it is lovely to see some frontage shots of it. I can just about remember tagging along with my mother and getting very excited every time she could be persuaded to go inside Jack Built, as she called it...

That, and the clipping of a corner was a standard practice to show that an album was discontinued and sold off by the label at a discount. It prevented unsold copies being returned to the label.