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Hi Carolina
I hope no-one minds me bringing back up this old thread from 2013 regarding carolina
Asking me whether mary Ann hughes had a sister called Ellen
And i would like to reply bck to her on this one ...
thank you guys for your information i did not know about previuosly takeing photos was not allowed lynn
and thank you Aston lad for your infomation best wishes Astonian,,, Alan,,,,
Hi viv
On the subject of Aston hall, according to my daughter last week she informed me that they introduced
A fee of eight pounds for entrance and if you want to take photographs internally there is an extra cost of four pounds
Can this be correct if this is...
To be honest i never heard of philiss nicklen until my neibour and friend whom you know as Bryan of used to be kings heath
until he stopped doing told me of philliss and her site of photographs we i logged into and got and seen them all
a thousand of them new and old from the forum of yester...
Thank you warren ,
I really thought it was the end of a true era again this time and i was really saddened by the thought
of it , i tried night after night not knowing or where to get another memer to asked did they know what was going on
or even tell me it had finished permantly
So now i...
the H AND H was a ghostly pub at any given time of day or night it never made money
they was all in the estate pub, you could call it a white elephant and in the end that was burt down on the wrley birch estate
Post 701 is yes the pub called the resovoir and yes its on the corner of lichfield road aston mow
and its actualy facing across the road of the Aston Resovoir and it would be the next public house down and on the opersite side of the road to the kingedwards public house on the corner of...
LYNN
I was born and raised on lichfield road at 5/92 and which was about two miles down along the lichfield road
and i was there in the days of old with the old tramms and the turn tables and the sandpitts and the cannal
spent many hours with the old man down at...
yes thats correct banks abit further up the road i know the area very well and my first wife i married was off the estate behind the very pub hair and hounds and my cousin openend a whole sale butchers supply years ago after the originale butchers was there before him
Another chequered history of pubs that fell foul of the brewery going back fifty years or so
the previuos, named , and the named one before and before that from the sixtys i would say it went down the pan and it cost money
The brewey money as it as been mentionioned on here about ten years...
well lynn
It would not surprize me in the long run as that pub as been for long time dead as far back as i can remember
It started to decline in punter s around the seventy mark as i recall it and the said management
was one of the team...
As a true brummie and understand we speak to each other where out siders do not grasp our word when speaking
to people, i myself intend to speak fast and un gramouryings my speach , of the brummie lingos
but the question i would like to asked ,when a person of brummy...
Hi old mowhawk
Its Amazing what you have retreived for us i can recall alot of them
on the subject of the pink gothic i recall that boozer and the beer was lousy as i recall
on berners street photo ,thanks i...
Hi guys
prior to the Antelope being a spicy eating house ,the Antelope was manage and ran by a couple of our long time
Friends , namely the Gallaghers the builders of the civil eningeers and construction
they was the former gathers of the...
well the map i am looking at shows its spiceal street and jamica row as a continue
It also gives me digbeth high street across and into the bull ring market
well viv
if my memory serves me correctlyi do beleive we was informed on here afew years back now
on this particular site , but i have to admitt i have not seen it for mysrelf
meaning as to where it just might be , maybe our lynn, might know she seems to be...