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Hi Lynn. i know you are an arden fan of carl chinn just like myselfand i know we have members also arden fans and it was great to see you mentionioning dec his the last month of his mag ,i also want to say to other members that you can get back issues of carls mags for the last twelve months and...

thank you lyn for the informatiom only i have just received the last 12 editiomns so i will be reording and other 12 copies thety are brillient i have read alot of great pictures and stories and of people whom are memberssome are passed and some still with us

Hi Dave many thanks for putting the map up on the screen i lived along the road at 47 victoria road and more or less oppersite our house cing the oaktree pub was johny prescotts steel stockist birmingham i am trying to recall johny prescott went into partnership with an other boxer and he had a...

LYNN RIFFLE CRESCENT WAS IN ASTON JUST OFF VICTORIA ROAD WE LIVED YARDS FROM IT WE WAS AT 47 VICTORIA ROAD AND AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED YARDS FROM THE OLD SIX WAYS ASTON IT DID NOT COME UNDER LOZELLS

Hi VIVIENE I Most certainly remember them in deed because my old man gave me a clipping around my ears for looseing one when i was young it was a sunday afternnon and my friend colin went to sutton park by train on our own i was about nine years old by train from aston...

Hi LOZELLIAN Thank you for reminding me of the griffin thats the other pub along side of the paddock as you correctly said at the time i just could not recall the name of it at the time of nameing the paddock yes i recall mayfield from the BHF Also its been years now...

hi will yes i did way way back i am trying to think of the gaffer at the time he eventualy left and took over the cotteridge clubhis mrs smoked little cigars a tall attratitive woman it was down between the shops at cotteridge i think right now it was a guy called brian and i am just thinking of...

Hi Alan i think i have to disagree on that subject and i think alot of people will also agree with me and others will tell you i ran pubs and clubs never failed me

H Will i do stand corrected on that you are quite correct what i was thinking it was a blue lamp outside but yes it was the lamplighter and cos of the police station across the road i recon that they put a blue shade on it but the lettering wasb white thanks for correcting me on that

H willstreeter did you ever get to the old blue lamp pub across the road from the old summer lane police station i beleive at some point in the early seventy it either closed down or it changed it name for a short period then closed down it was there for donkeys years i lived in the tower block...

Hi Guys Here is a couple of names from the Birmingham Auxiliary Fire Service. Roll of Honour S,Villers B2577 429 Victoria road Aston Died 9.4 1941 D,OWHITE B2270 73 Barn Lane kings heath Died 9,4 1941 Lugg of station 4/4 was killed by a H,E Bomb whilst attending a fire at Holburn...

Hi Aston6 there was the paddock on the precint across from the elbow room

Hi Guys a mention of the birmingham bomb raid dated 26/27 bomb explodes in front of the screen at the carlton cinema spark brook. 12 th november 1940 curzon street bombed. 13th november 1940 a daylight raid on the Austin car works and Another raid on birmingham 18th 19 th november 1940 the...

Here is a couple of photogrphs of yester years and it the changing of the use of our one time grand cannals

yes he lives in harbourne still so i imagine he still is living there in the area also does marion

yes i recall it when john the gaffer with one eye john babbington whom ran it in those days any body got a picture of it

Eric; your house number would be in crabtree road but the heize factory as you say backs up onto the cannal bitand going by todays postion of all saints road as itis today there is an opening at the beginging end of crabtree road and all saints which i think if you look at the picture which was...

Hi Eric its my conclusion is that what i see before me on my record is a 1954 out layed map for the 13 parlimentry Disvisions as reconstituted in 1954,by the boundary commision for electoral purpuposes

Hi ERIC I have oonly just picked up on this requesting of to be or not to be it all depends on what half of crabtree roadbecause it was on the borderline i think i was only studying this plot of the changing of the streets and council changing the borders of all saints and brookfield the top...

Hibushbaby i have been reading your threads on tindal street and you are addement its the Stour valley pub and its on monument road in front of me i have a 1953 book period, and on this page its states stour valley hotel Monument road Its an Advert in a box which states midland variety...