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  1. Reg Cook

    Brummie sayings & language

    LOL!! Ye had a few ear ringers Jean, probably deserved it naughty little boy I was. XXXX
  2. Reg Cook

    Brummie sayings & language

    My old Ma! with hands like a Navvy, give her lip she'd swing like Ali.
  3. Reg Cook

    Brummie sayings & language

    Yes Lyn. We used to put the newspaper over the top of the Draw tin. had used to catch fire very often ye. XXXX
  4. Reg Cook

    Brummie sayings & language

    I can remember standing at the fire place with the "Draw tin" in me hand trying to get the fire go.
  5. Reg Cook

    Where is this building

    I was sat in my car last year waiting for Jane to come out. At least I had her Dog for company. LOL!!
  6. Reg Cook

    Where is this building

    I think thats what I should have said, Jennyann. Its a Doctors Surgery.
  7. Reg Cook

    Where is this building

    Witton road, Dek. Looks like our Jane's "Bleep" Bleep" GPs Surgery.
  8. Reg Cook

    Fish and Chip Shop, Potters Lane, Aston

    Hello Mike. I thought you! lived in Milton street. Something I was reading a while back now something about number 41 Which is where I was brought up after my Great Grandparents died there my Mom and Dad moved in.
  9. Reg Cook

    Fish and Chip Shop, Potters Lane, Aston

    I understand? you lived at 41 Milton street Mike.
  10. Reg Cook

    Fish and Chip Shop, Potters Lane, Aston

    I can still smell those chips today!! Tasted great too. We left Aston in 1964 Alf, I seem to remember using that Chip after we left. In my trips back to see my friends who were still living in Aston. I couldn't bring myself to just "up and leave" and never go back.
  11. Reg Cook

    78 Newtown Row

    I went from Newtown Garage, to Edwards Bros in Villa street later that year Lyn. XX
  12. Reg Cook

    78 Newtown Row

    When I worked at Newtown Garage as an Apprentice mechanic back in, 1971 I think it was. I had to go in that Cafe for the Mechanic's sandwiches, the smell of baking bread was just bliss when you walked in. Then in the 1990s I was working for a transport company, and we parked our trailers round...
  13. Reg Cook

    Tooth Family

    Hello Astonian. Strangely!! No one at work calls him Dave. Its always "Toothie" nice to hear from you again. Reg.
  14. Reg Cook

    Brummie sayings & language

    Coming from Aston as most of us do. As a young kid I can remember throwing stones across the old bomb pecks at ya mates and at the windows of the old empty houses, How lovely was the sound of breaking glass then. Not long back, my missus shouting at the Grandchildren outside. Made me chuckle...
  15. Reg Cook

    Tooth Family

    Hiya Alan. I know a Dave Tooth, see him every day when delivering to our Depot in Stoke-on-Trent. Got to spread your search ah! Reg.
  16. Reg Cook

    Walter Collins and the Beet family

    Hiya Chris. My Cousin, Brian Cook Married a Margaret Davis. I'm pretty sure she lived in Windsor Street as a child. XXXX
  17. Reg Cook

    Walter Collins and the Beet family

    Hello Jof. Confusing! yes. I don't know who any of these Beet or Collins family's belong to. I was just trawling!! the Census through Aston and just fell upon them, so I suppose they have to belong to our family somewhere along the family line. I put them on here hoping someone would recognize...
  18. Reg Cook

    Great Russell Street

    Thanks Mike. somehow! I thought you would come up with the goods, as reliable as ever. Thank you.
  19. Reg Cook

    Great Russell Street

    Have you seen the photos of the grave Lyn. ( Original Post by John Houghton, can any one help )
  20. Reg Cook

    Great Russell Street

    Click on your spanner top right hand corner Lyn. Magnify.
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