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Hi Michael and Grea; Yes this is very true postion of navigation street and thesurrounding streets of that area and there are more named streets surrounding it and it published way back in time in 1904...

Hi Laurence breakwell Just been reading your thread about and and about alot of your ancesters coming over and been recruititg to join well i have the book on what was mentionioned the other eveng called the sinister side of birmingham to put it correctly the proper spelling of the book is...

Hi Steve Iknow i put kings heath but if its for the horse brigade police section and now you have said possibly harborne came in with the C division well i was thinking of the kings norton section or would that have been over the boundries i have got a...

Hi Gang, Here is a reminder for you and possible memories for you all the work shop tyburn road 1933 best wishes to you all ,, Alan,, Astonian,,,,

Well , What i suggest to do is to check is collar number by records if your friend steve as access records that far back and work out the C divisons meaning check where c division was around the areas firstly C division incorporates Handsworth , Thornhill road , Then keyon street then...

Hi G Nice to hear from you again i hope you and maria are fine G, you have got me thinking now on this one i know the place and i can vizulise it now and you went up the stairs nice thriving place but not very large inside my brothers and...

Hi Maurice just read your thread with intrest regarding the name of all these bartons suchas saying barton street , barton place As i have previsiouly stated in another thread regarding bartons bank , was it last account my younger brother got...

Hi mike If it was not for the fact that i lived yards from there shop and spent every penny as a kid in there shop and getting the penny bottle of pop from is little machine that pumped out the drink and as i said mr whetton was the one and only true...

well mike are you saying that its not a sweet shop when it clearly see the sign above the shop windows stating confectionay so may be then this people have taken it over and may be gona chang trade but in the mean time whom ever taken the picture was to eager regards i aint to bothered about...

Hi Guys As a follow up on this case regarding the peggys shop and possibly brassworks I have dived straight into my libary of books and dug out mr whetton,s shop on lichfield road aston as i have just previously reported on my thread as a kid born and...

HI There guys, just going back a thread or two regarding our peggy sweet shop with a attitude of saying it could be any where on the lichfield road and between Aston cross and salford bridge, well ,, I had to laugh and smile to myself ,because that shop ,that sweet shop...

Hi Babs if you was in the tow rope some years back do you recall barry parker and is wife sue we used to go in there every night of the week little freddie and lorraine spent most night in there late hours till morning and go home to...

Hi carl yes i can recall them venue,s i used to go to them all main one thou for me was the monty and i recall rusty,s and her dumplings always bought some to eat on the way home late nights doing the pub crawls al the way upp to west brom high street last...

Nice picture viv, good question it will be intresting to see if any of our good old members turn up trumps and i wold be very surprized if there are any best wishes Alan,,, Astonian,,,,

Hi G Here is a couple of those photo,s i said was involved which was included with the hilltop spitfies story lines women at war playing there part including the womens manning there postions

Hi Maurice Some of them courts was still around in the late fortys in aston , especialy lichfield road just before Aston cross if coming up from the aston station to the cross They was just passed upper portland street heading to...

Hi G Many thanks for your replying to my photograph of the spitfies i was aware of the final finishing sheds and i knew it was not on hilltop farm i have got the news paper article with the whole information on it and them and picture of the ladies whom ran the...

Hi Guys todays the day of our beloved and lost love and a piece of our long life history of Aston and birmingham is the saddened Anniversary of the big british industry of Hp sauace aston cross ,co,s today it closed for good on this very date 16 april 1916 there is some photos on the pages of...

Hi farmerdave yes it had been done on here years ago and i recall your threads as well as others you have done its been afew years since i seen your name on here its great to see so many old time members coming back on here and look foreward to hearing more from you and thanks fot that...

hi midlandspub many thanks for answereing my request of threads and for putting the photographs of yester years as i had many involvements with these pubs way back in there glory days as with the yorkshire grey such great memories and involments in more ways than one thanks again best wishes...