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So sorry to hear the sad news about Steve. My condolences to you and both families. Dave.

Here is a composite of the 2 New Street photos.

Hi Lyn, I have a number of Evening Mail supplements with lots of pictures and articles I could post but I doubt I will have the time to spend doing it! Maybe some of yours are the same ones?

I should have known - my brother worked there for a while in the 50's. Their trademark was "enots" (stone backwards).

Hi Lyn, The first picture is Bracebridge Street looking from Newtown Row end towards Elkington Street. I can't tell you the name of the factory but I bet somebody will know. The second picture is as Dek says, the picture is taken from the corner of Elkington Street/Bracebridge Street looking in...

Hello A S Wood, I used to go to St. Mary's in the 1950's and I used to play soccer with twins John and Kenny Wood who lived in Whitehouse Street virtually opposite the school. Also living near them was Roy Whitmore who was a mate of mine when at the school. If your dad or their relatives are the...

Hi Blacksmith, I really enjoyed your opening post on this thread. Very well written. Me thinks there are a couple of other threads about school sweet shops? There may even be one of mine. In one of those posts there is a link to a sweet "shop" that is selling the self same sweets some 50 years...

Thanks Lyn, I hope you can find something.

Not sure if the round "roll" was only Walls' Jean but they also did a brick which is what I thought was nicer the than MCD brick.

MCD was on the corner of Bagot Street and the last little bit of Corporation Street where it met Aston Road at the canal. I also remember watching the bottles going along quickly on the conveyors. I remember the brick of ice cream too with wafers. My brother and I used to fight for the thickest...

Hi Dek, Yes it was the White Hart but I'm sure you meant to write that the motorcycle shop was just down Aston Road from the traffic lights. It was Premium Motors and they were about halfway down Aston Road between Dartmouth Street and Hubert Street. Their main car showroom was on the opposite...

Hi Lyn, I can't think of a pub in Miller Street. I can think of 2 outdoors, 1 on the corner of Miller St and Bracebridge St (picture posted by you) and one on the corner of Miller St and Aston Brook St. I wasn't old enough to drink at the time so I could be mistaken. I never heard my dad mention...

I have posted this before on other threads. The photo was taken at St. Mary's C of E Aston around 1953 - 54. The Headmaster Mr Tunnicliffe is on the left and the delicious Miss Price on the right. Now here's a little test for you boys and girls - can you remember which one is me? No peeking now!!

Hi Astonian, A lot of kids from St Mary's used to live in that area but I don't know if they lived in Wainwright St. This would be around 1950-55. Freddie Martin Malcom Brooks Margaret Chorley Phyllis Blizzard Michael Taber Raymond Hawkins Do you recognise any of these names?

Ray, I see Ken Williams on the fight card just before your bout. That makes 3 sports he was active in namely, Swimming, Football and now Boxing. Do you remember if Ken won his bout or not?

Yes, well done The Baggies. That's six points we can count on next season!

Hey Dek, I believe you are Jackie's husband? Used to bowl against her in the Morris Commercial League at Wylde Green Bowl, along with her brother Tommy and both of his wives. We also used to live near The Scott Arms just off Newton Road in Meadowside Close. How near are/were you?

My wife used to live in Calver Grove just down from The Trees on the other side of the Queslett Road.

Hi Terry, I have the Duke of York on the corner of Aston Road and Pritchard Street. Were there two?

My cousin in the UK recently sent an article from the Steam World magazine October 2009 edition, entitled "My Tamworth Field Years" (Part Two) by Terry Webb, which included the following pictures. Acknowledgements to Terry Webb and to the people he acknowledged in his article. My most vivid...