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    High Street Aston

    When the market closed Jess Meakin moved his business to a shop at the Scott Arms in Great Barr.
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    High Street Aston

    Hi. I remember the market hall as I used to go in there with my mother in the 50's and early 60's, but I thought it was slightly farther up High St more opposite the House that Jack Built. I seem to remember a Home and Colonial grocers opposite Philips St.
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    High Street Aston

    Dave A is correct, Baines was on one corner of Philips St and High St, and Timothy Whites and Taylor's was on the other. I suspect that is the chemists shop shown in the photo. On it's way down to Aston Rd, Aston brook ran open between the ends of the gardens of houses in Philips St and the...
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    Bus Garages

    When I was a child I lived within walking distance of Miller St garage, and it always fascinated me watching the evening staff washing the buses with long handled brushes which went up to roof level. Much later on, when I worked on Hagley Rd, I sometimes drove past Rosebury St garage (when the...
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    Grammar schools and comprehensives in Birmingham in the 50s and 60s.

    I sat my 11+ in 1962 when I was just ten. Somehow to my, and everyone else's, surprise I managed to pass. As I attended a Catholic junior school in Aston it was assumed I would be going to St Phillips grammar school the following September. However, there were no available places there so...
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    Phillips Street Aston

    It was also Ansell's bottle store as I remember.
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