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school My first school was Redhill road,mom was more upset than me when she left me there.Then when it was holiday time she couldn't wait for school to open again. My children went to Lakey Lane in the seventies.

Were we lived we didnt have a bathroom we had a tiolet outside next to the coalhouse it was a long wooden seat that went the length off of the tiolet building,news paper cut or torn into sqares hanging on a bit of string.We had no hot water when it came to do any washing or a bath the copper...

Loved all that from the pork butches pigs trotters were still hot,all those things were a treat shell fish when mom went to the market winkles as well.

They don't do school dinners like that any more,most days we had a pudding with custard or rice pudding with I think were prunes.

My mother also did that but added most things you had in a salad,she always called it a vinager salad mostly for tea on sunday

I will have to go and have a look,another question I was wondering if it says in the parish records for a wedding that they were both of this parish,does it mean they were born there or simply they were living there at that time.

My grandparents lived 107 Frederick Road up to my grandmothers death at the age of 39 in 1939,with all the talk about everything changing,does anyone know if that house is still standing,If it is I would like to go and take a photo of it.

Just thinking about about the rymes we used to use as kids when playing,counldn't use them now my grandson was trying to decide which biscuit to choose and I started reciting the ryme eenie meany miny mo catch a nxxxer by his toe,I had to stop myself singing it to him as they pick things up so...

St Pauls Nice couple of pictures of St Pauls www.astonbrook-through-astonmanor.co.uk

Can you still get those pink spearmint bars or choc stix they were like boiled sweet stick with chocolate in the middle same shape as the barley sugar stick and the five boys chocolate.

There was nothing like a real fire is there, we sat there while mom done the toast used butter then,not these spread's you get now,there wasn't much in the bin's everything now is over packaged,look at the milk in supermarkets we only had milk in bottles that were returnable.

Ex Lucas Employee Lucas site is great,I worked 18 years at Marshal Lake/shaftsmoor Lane I remember so many of the people on the photo's. I check back now and again to see if any more have been added. It was a lovely place to work,shame we have lost all these large firms.

I know they still have there own fire service at the Land Rover,so I suppose there still is in the larger factory's.

Re- Use Of Graves It is very satisfying to find and visit the grave's of the ancester's,that you have worked hard researching. Does anybody know if there is any cremation register's held in the library.

Pdsa What about all the charity shop's they now run,surely this must help in the running costs,I agree there are very selfish people abusing the pdsa. The mobile unit used to come round,not sure if it was fortnightly on a thursday morning,I remember going with my friend whose dog had been run...

Witton Cemetary, I have been in touch with Witton Cemetary,and the were very helpful told me the number of the grave and also sent me a map.I was told it is a common grave can anybody explain to me what is mean't by that. I emailed them last week with detail's I knew,wasn't even sure the...

Hold my donnie keep out the horse road dowt the light/switch off light

I was given a money box in the shape of a crown,It was very fancy,gold and red,does anybody else remember them,I don't think our parent's bought them I think they were given to lot's of children maybe from school,maybe somebody can tell us.

On the marriage certificate, they were married in the presence of Lizzie Humphries,Hector's birth certificate that I have has the wrong spelling [e] missing but marriage certificate spelt correct.I have convinced myself I had the wrong birth certificate,but looking at it his mother sign's with a...

Hector birth 1898,it says on birth certificate 2 back5 milton street,not sure where that was but sub district St George,his father Frederick was a carpenter. Marriage certificate for Hector and Ethal say's address Chain Walk aston, I am not sure where Ethel came from but maybe West Bromwich.