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During the summers of 1958/59 I played in the Yew Tree Junior School cricket team. We had early evening and Saturday morning games against schools such as Upper Thomas St.; Elkington St; Gower St; Alma St and others. The matches were one inning affairs played on pitches in places like Perry Hall...

PatriciaH, Well would you believe it ! I was in that fancy dress competion too. Dressed as black minstrel, burnt cork all over my face and complete with a banjo. Hardly "PC" these days. Remember how it rained that day. I also remember the Houghten Family, I think they were friends of my...

Thoroughly enjoying your posts: new to this but having enormous fun Lovers' Walk, a narrow paved lane ran from Aston Hall Road under the railway bridge, parallel with the railway line down to the entrance to Aston Station and right opposite was the PDSA. It had street lights and as I recall...

Also "dog bite me" - both exclamations of frustration or anger. Were these just confined to our family or does anyone know of these phrases ? If you had a christian name that could be shortened, i.e. Christopher to Chris, when everything in the garden was lovely your mother called you by the...

Sylviasayers, I think you are right about the Jamboree, thank you for the correction. We were flooded out twice and I have mixed the 1957 event with the earlier one. Compliments

GG Jean, I don't remember the Floods. What I do remember are THE FLOODS in around 1954 I think. We had just returned from the Boy Scout Jamboree in Sutton Park. As we got off the train at Aston Station it started to thunder and by the time we reached Deykin (the other end of Electric Ave), the...

GG Jean I'm sorry I do not recall the names you mention, but I think Brian Sutton was a year ahead of me at Yew Tree. The families I recall in Deykin during the 50's and 60's were 2 Wilson families, but not related. One family had a son Ronnie and daughter Pat. The other had a son Roger. The...

Ed, That really made me smile. I know West Somerset well. Are you going to the Dunster show today ? Compliments

Does anyone remember that before the Co-Op it was called The Home and Colonial. It had a cash office connected by overhead wires to the tills and the assistant would put your payment into a little basket, pull a lever and the basket would go whizzing accross the store along the wire and your...

Astonian, I think "gob" or "god" smacked is a relatively new saying. I don't recall hearing it before the 1990's ( maybe I've lived a sheltered life ). As to its origin I have no clue. Regards

Thank you for your replies and your interest. I only added the punctuation to emphasise that aka was pronounced as 3 individual letters, but to mean "our kid" it was pronounced as a word. It does seem that at lot of slang was and is specific to communities but many words and phrases are...

Shortie, Dead right, but that would be A.K.A. AKA (our kid) was common around Aston Hall Road/Electric Avenue - Bham 6. My mother also used the phrase when I Walked into the house - "It's the kid himself" Compliments

"BOSTIN" Meaning large as in "bostin great big" or enjoyable as in "bostin great time" "AKA" Meaning "our kid" i.e. my brother

Marisan, Yew Tree Junior School in Aston had a caretaker called Tirebuck during my time there in the 1950's. Maybe there are Education Dept records. Hope it may help

Shera, Thanks for that. Tell Brian that there is a photo on Friends Reunited on the Yew Tree site 1957/58 he may like to see. I think it's him. Let me know. Christopher

Dave G, You made me cry. Our family loved Mrs Macey. My Mother and her talked over the fence every day and she was amazed how she could hang out her washing and cook. My Mother tried to walk around our house with her eyes closed to try and understand how that remarkable lady did it. I also...

Shera, I hope you were not offended, I just could not remember your sister's first name. My Mother always thought the world of her. Is she still with us ?. Is your brother Brian still around, I think he was one year ahead of me at Yew Tree Junior. Thanks for your reply. Christopher

I lived in Deykin Avenue from 1948 to 1974 at no. 92. My granparents - William and Emily Short lived at no.90, my great aunt and my greatgrand mother at no. 60. My Aunt and Uncle (The Townsends) lived at I think no. 87. My great uncle Lionel - who worked for Atkinsons Brewery - lived in Cheshire...