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This is my grandmother Maud Howell/Philips/Amos outside her shop somewhere in Aston in the early 1920s. I would love to find out where the shop was if anyone can shed any light on it?
On the 1921 Census the whole of the Howell family are living at that address but Kelly's does not list a shop at that address in 1921.
I wonder when and why it became a shop and who converted it into a shop.
Maud's mother appears to have died in 1925, I wonder if that prompted the family to open a shop.
The 1939 census for 31 Lynton Road has Harold & Maud Amos with Harold down as General labourer & Maud as "shopkeeper sweets & general". There are also 6 others, 3 of whom are redacted. Of the 3 shown, there is Joseph Howell Amos, Maud Phillips (later Potter), & Lilian Amos (later Darling)