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Ann, my g/father Wm J Barr was the oldest of 6 boys he was only 14 when his mother died but tried to keep the family together...4 of them went to an orphanage but as soon as they were old enough my g/father got them out to live with him, John was the youngest, their mother Teresa Barr d 1895...

My grt uncle John Bertram Barr is on the memorial, his parents Thomas and Teresa Barr had already died but he resided with Wm Joseph Barr (my grandfather) at Park Road.

1 was born in Loveday street Maternity home 1935 lived in Aston all my life until 1958 when i emigrated to Texas, still consider myself a Brummie and always will...Brenda

we lived in Copeley street a (cul -de -sac) Aston, and we had a knocker upper who lived in the Street her name was Polly Foster, l know my family never used her but a lot of our neighbours did, l think she was still doing it when l left in 1958,....l have never had an alarm clock always woke...

What a nice aerial pic of Aston l was working at Johnny Wrights when that picture was taken and l knew all the roads around that area,

The policeman with the big booted feet was right beside Neals shoe reparing on Park Lane...l guess it was an advertisement for come get your shoes repaired,,,,that policemen had been there as far back as l can remember l left Aston in 1958 and it was there then

Yes,every Saturday afternoon my brother and l would go to the Globe and watch Flash Gordon,,Hopalong Casssidy etc,then after wards go to the pie shop just down from the Globe and buy a nice hot pie....a few years later l joined the ABC club at the Orient it was a really step up from the Globe...

Growing up in Aston l am familiar with lots of sayings and slang...but imagine my shock and surprise when l came to Texas and people say l am wearing my best kakis?? l only new that word has something else...after all these years l still have to smile if only these people knew what l knew it...

Yes that is Mr Eastwood l was in his class around 1946-7 as you say he was strict teacher but a good teacher

l,ll try once again to answer your question...Rons Berkeley is a 1958 B60 model with a excelsior eng 2Stroke 328cc so far the paint has been stripped off also the frame has been sandblasted oh had new tyres it all takes and money Brenda

l have no idea about cars etc.....Ron said his Berkeley is a 1958 B60 model with a an excelsior 2 Stroke eng 328cc at the moment hes working on the engine but so far the paint has been stripped off it also Ron has sandplasted the frame, but it all takes time and money....Brenda

...l am not only a car widow but have been a plane widow for over 50yrs...now Ron no longer has a plane hes turned to restoring old cars....l can never say hes under foot...Brenda

My husband Ron has just been offered a Berkley to restore ..hes done quite a lot of work on it BUT parts are so hard to come by..so its question of will it ever get finished in his life time or not....l must admit l have never heard of this car before but thats nothing new..Brenda oh, if he...

My dad always would say "its cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey"

all those pictures make me homesick for my childhood to and for my Aston as l knew it..Brenda

my mother always said" ive got a bone to pick with you ", then l knew l was in trouble

l remember my mother Ena b Coates b1906 telling me about the spanish flu, she said in 1918 spent 6 weeks in bed but luckily she got over it, was anxious to get back to school to take finals exams ....which had been taken before while she was absent...well guess what she passed and was made...

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My g/father was William Charles Coates...his brother Daniel Coates had the fish and chip shop on Victoria Road also my g/f had a news agents in Church Lane....quite a few of the Coates's lived in that area ...hav e.nt gone back to far on ancestry yet to find out if we are related Brenda

l never heard my father swear he always said l can cuss as good as the next bloke but never in front of a women...my mother had to be really upset to say dame and blast under her breath so l guess l lived a very sheltered live...untill l met my inlaws that's when l really had an education...the...