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Hi Lyn, My attempt. I think it''s No. 30 but it's pretty blurry! Keep 'em coming Ray!

Welcome back Ray! What memories you are bringing back for me! Aston Cross, Aston Road and Aston Brook. Great photos once again! I will gladly attempt to "brush up" the odd photo and re-post. P.S. Bracebridge Street is only just up the road and getting warmer!!!!!!!

Hi Mary, There are no pictures of Shefford Road on the Forum but there is hope maybe with Ray Griffiths!

Hello again Ray, The 4th pic in your post, Avenue Road, Aston, is the only pic I have seen on the Forum of St. Mary's C of E school. It never really had a frontage as such, sandwiched as it was by the church and houses. On its other side, in Whitehouse Street, it was a similar story. I remember...

Wasn't Crowder & Brown a British Leyland dealership? Maybe Ray has got a picture of it!

Hi Alf/Brian, Wasn't there a PDSA next door or nearby at one time (50's)? As I recall it was about the only vet in Aston?

Astonite, that's just as I remember it! When was it taken do you know? I used to walk that way to the Villa ground (until I got educated that is) to avoid the hill and the crowds in Park Road. I remember the "Ilsley's" sign on the wall. It always made me think of the Ilsley Brothers from...

Hi Ray, Great photos! They bring back a lot of memories even though it wasn't really my neck of the woods. As I stated before, I lived in the Aston Road end of BRACEBRIDGE STREET (nudge, nudge - wink, wink)!!!

I received this picture of Aston Cross from Raymond Hawkley who I was with at St. Mary's in the 50's. If I can get a date for it I will let you know.

Hi Charles Mason, I see you are researching Raymond Vale amongst others. I remember a Raymond Vale who lived in Walter Street. I was at Charlie Arthur with his younger brother Brian and I vividly remember Raymond in his Teddy Boy suit with his tight trousers on his long skinny legs and a fag...

Ray, once again lots of memories. What a great source of photos you are. Our GP had a surgery in a house in Sutton Street (RH side looking up from Aston Road) somewhere near the brow of the hill. His name was Dr. Fitzgerald. He was Irish. Anybody remember him?

Hi Ray, Great pictures some of which I remember. Don't suppose you have any of nearby Bracebridge Street by any chance? I wonder if the Barlows that Terry mentioned includes Stella Barlow who is on my St. Mary's School class picture?

Hi Lyn, Sorry to hear about your dad not being well. Happy to read that he is on the mend. Hope you come across some good stuff but wear some clothes during your search (bare with me!!). Good luck.

St. Something = St. Mary's C of E Infants and Juniors.

My wife's family are Williams' from Victoria Road, Aston. They used to live opposite the swimming baths near the butchers. Her grandfather was Clarence but can't think of her grandmother's name. Barb's dad Albert was one of their eldest children, born June 9th 1920. They had 7 - Charles, George...

Hi Lyn, My attempts.............

Lyn, Can u c them now?

I don't know about you but I put it down to getting old! I spent a lot of time as a kid from Charlie Arthur Street School playing with other kids from the school who lived at the end of Walter Street at the junction of Long Acre and Thimblemill Lane, yet I couldn't think of its name the other...

Correction to my own post - I was obviously thinking of Walter Street. Apologies.