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    Lovers Lane Aston

    I'm pleased I started this subject. It was Lovers' Walk alongside the railway line, not Lovers' Lane . To get to Deykin Avenue School from there, one would have to walk the whole length of Electric Avenue over the Tame Bridge, fork right where Tame Road joined Electric Avenue. The whole length...
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    The Number 39

    Can you bus experts out there help me. I have had a couple of sleepless nights trying to recall the route of this service and where it turned around in town. I know it's rather sad but as a kid it was cheaper to walk "up the Witton" to catch the 39 than it was to get the 5 or 5A at the bottom...
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    Astoness ( lyn )

    As you know I'm a new boy, but please accept my condolences. Tears will turn to gentle smiles when fond memories drift into mind.
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    Yew Tree Road school

    G G Jean, Have just come accross your photographs of Yew Tree. This may bring a memory or two back :- Boys Athletics 1957/58 Back Row L-R Mr.Liggins : Hemmings : ? : Colin Smith : Robin Batchelor : Mr.Smith Front Row L-R Alan Sugden : Yours Truly : Johnny Wooton : Wally Cox : ?
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    My wonderful bedroom

    Deykin Avenue was a "commuter route" for the GEC in Electric Avenue. On Spring and Summer mornings I would sit in the Window (I had the front bedroom) from about 7am and watch the workers riding down the Avenue on their bikes. Always I was waiting for my favourite blue racing machine to go by...
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    Up The Witton

    Thanks everyone, How about this, It was never around the block, it was always "round the square" - lovely contradiction. Then there was the phrase for visiting a relative "going down our Mothers" We had family phrase, in that I had a great aunt who lived down the road who bore our family name...
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    Up The Witton

    I lived in Witton. When my mother went shopping on Witton Island, she would go "up the Witton" if she went to shop in Erdington, it was "to". No matter in what what direction you approached the City Centre it was always "going up town". To London from outside it is "up to town". Uptown and...
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    who remembers fireball xl5

    The Bumberlies was a childrens' programme on around 5.15pm. Three characters from outer space and Bentine trying to keep them in order.Every week one of the 3 would commit some silly prank and we had to guess which one. His most famous sketch from " Square World" was about a pub game called "Drats"
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    who remembers fireball xl5

    OK then, let's really stretch back into the mists.... how about a puppet called Hank who was a Mexican riding the range. Or what about Billy Bean and his Funny Machine. There was also The Bumberlies with Micheal Bentine.
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    who remembers fireball xl5

    How about Four Feather Falls, Twizzle and Torchy the Battery Boy ?
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    Oh well said Nell

    An aged Aunt of mine used to say "Guy Squint" when she was suprised or impressed.
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    Deykin Avenue

    Hello everyone, Does anyone recall the Co-Op milkman with his horsedrawn cart around the area. The horse was called Korky. Numerous mothers would send out the kids with an apple for Korky and a bucket and shovel for the rose fertilizer !
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    My life and little fishes !

    Agree with Johno, but what is the source(s) of your material Compliments
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    My life and little fishes !

    Mossy, To who was that insult aimed ?
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    Deykin Avenue

    Linda Hello, Well well, I did go to Marsh Hill and Margaret still lives in Brantley Road. She does not enjoy the best of health these days but she is doing quite well. I took a few family pussy cats to the PDSA too, it's strange all I can really remember about Lovers Walk ids that it was always...
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    My life and little fishes !

    GGJean, It was me that started this, I think I've found something. "Ye Gods and etc" was a middle class catch phrase in popular use around 1884-1912. It then became a derisive or jocular exclamation especially in the theatrical world. Compliments
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    The Brummie for Lunch?

    Macca, Scran is Royal Marine slang for field rations
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    My life and little fishes !

    JohnO, Thanks for that, I think you may be right. I can find no references anywhere. I have a large collection of works on slang and even the Penguin Dictionary of Historic Slang has no reference. As far as I only heard one member of my family ever use it. Regards Christopher
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    Lovers' Walk - one for Astoness and Astonian

    lyn, Thanks for your greeting. I lost count of the number of times I walked up and down LW to catch the train with my parents to visit an Aunt in Lichfield. Christopher
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    Lovers' Walk - one for Astoness and Astonian

    mossg, Many thanks, I recall the houses were at the station end. The Aston Hall road end was a narrow paved alley Christopher
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