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My father was Charles Weaver, Coal Merchant, 28, Gladstone Street Aston. Will gladly answer any question I can, he operated out of Whitton Wharfe. David Weaver.

Give your Mom a big hug for me, wished I could hug mine. I hitch hiked through Spain in the fifties on the way to North Africa. Memories, memories. Enjoy yourself and write down all your stories even if it is only for our history. Kindest regards again, David. Australia.

Jean, those were indeed sad times and it takes so long to get over the worst parts but get over them we must. We all learn to live, love and never forget what happened to us, but then we must move on with what is left of our lives. There are indeed evil things happening in the world today, but...

Re: Help find Billy Freer Thanks again that's him for sure. It most probably was a nickname but I knew him as 'Snowy' so there you go. I'd love to think he married again and had another family, but that may be the rambling of an old man dreaming his dreams of perfection for things long gone...

Re: Help find Billy Freer Lloyd, an old Australian thanks you very much for taking the trouble. Thanks, regards, David.

Re: Help find Billy Freer Sorry Lloyd, I'm still getting the hang of this and once again I left out important details. Old age does that to you. In 1942 his wife was forty two years old so I presume he would have been that age or roundabouts and now long dead. Billy was helping to dig out...

Does anyone know what happened to Billy Freer. His family were killed in the 1942 blitz. They lived in Church Lane, Aston? Thanks.

In the process Chris but she wnt into Changi POW Camp as a telephonist when it was full of Japanese just after the war. It's quite a story really and very sad but when I sit down to question her about the Birmingham Blitz we invariable end up in the Malayan Jungle dodging terrorists during the...

I have an eighty seven year old woman in my writing group whom I interviewed a few months back for a profile. She was on the guns in Perry Barr and we often talk about her role in those days. I'd been teaching her for over a year when I found out she was one of those people making all the noise...

Thanks Weny that's them. Kindest regards, David.

Thanks John, I didn't express myself very well I'm afraid. That's the family I was looking for. Billy and his family used to come around to our house in Gladston (Gladstone) Street Sunday evenings for a sing song. I asked the youngest girl to marry me when we grew up, as kids do, that's why I...

Hello Pomgolian, I'm looking for the list of those killed in the blitz and have been told you may have it. I'm looking for the Freer Family of Aston. Billy, the father worked for my father, and his family was killed in a direct hit on their air raid shelter. I'm looking for their names but also...

Cromwell I've been going through your magnificent site and I can only say thanks and well done. Brought a tear to my eye I can tell you. Seventy five and still remembering. On the night that the pub was land mined in Aston with all those people killed I was lying in bed in the 'Front Room' with...