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My memories of the sweets of yesterdays are from mr whetton,s the sweet shop on lichfield road and i could get two black jacks for the farthng and a penny bottle of so called ice cream soda pop with a stone type bottle stopper a penny gob stopper and secondly from the sweet shop in upper...

Hi Eddie Here is a good photograph of the worlds famous W,W greener,s gun makers on st Marys Row in the early 1900.s Thanks to Greeners.s the photographer is looking down loveday street and,out of view, the general hospital is across from the works...

congratultions mike you have cracked the code again so it appears to be an small holding like the evershm in those go by gone days a farm house building with a pleck and what one would refere back in those ages a little yard it was the same as green farm in cow honeybourne a little pleck of...

So may be this wheeleys farm as they refered to in its hey day was only a small holdings plots of land with farm house just like way back in eversham there was a farm house and a field or two with orchard it was called green hill farm way back then and its still there today may be that was the...

Robert victor wheeley, was a decendant and janet notes that; an ancester called sarah wheeley ran a charity for the poor in Edgbaston and the family helped with clothes and food and left five houses to charity; In early 1810 distress swept the land and the poor families Found it hard to earn the...

I Have a mention of farms that was mentioned that around the 1919 and other dwellings were built at billesley farm kings heath, and pineapple farm stirchley and stone house farm califfornia and elswhere in all 3,234 houses were erected under the 1919 scheme but no wheelers farm mentioned...

Hi Janice Many thanks for informing me of the sale of such as one of our oldest pubs or can i say our INNS of our hearticage Here in the west midlands dateinng back centuryies i have worked in management of many brewy,s and i can tell you greene king are the most and worst employees you can...

Hi mikejee i had it as wordworth road at the top of goldenhilick road which was just off the goldenhilock road

to day i was taken to birmingham and we went down through the green at kings norton, and i looked towards the old historic pub called the Navigagation now that is a long historic pub remaining of brum history going back years and i found it all boarded up can anybody telll me when and how long...

Hl Lynn and maurice i have to agree with you maurice its a small single name and do think it begegins with w as you say maurice and i do not beleive itsgoldenhich road either i will try and get my son to try and get some books out for the cuboard and see if i can see it best wishes Alan...

Hi Barbeacon,, Many thanks for putting that picture up looking up the lane because that are my grand fathers and his grand fathers busines,s on the right hand of the picture just passing the chemistthe shops you see was th chippie shop and the black gates you see is there long bigg yard that...

On the subject of erdington homes i had an old friends mother whom worked at the erdington homes years ago way back in the fifties and she adopted thre kids from there her name was olive frisby and she was married to a nice guy called fred frisby he was a builder her husband and her self was...

there was not another butchers shop passed the station the last butchers shop on lichfield road was just before grovenor street westabout five or six before you reached the corner and on the very corner was an old shop which had bits and bobs and a couple of old fashioned bikes with a huge penny...

It was after the policman one they put up a huge big bill board size of a huge brown boot and years after that they took that one down and put a more simple advert the number eight bus used to stop just yards from the shoe shop then there was a big terrace and i beleive the coal yard was close...

there was one after 1953 and it was a huge hoarding board with just the boot in full size of the hoarding as i recall it and as far as i know that could have been the last huge poster i recal the police man one as well best wishes Alan . Astonian ;;;;;;

hI Susano9 i recall you and your family as my mate was johny dunkley and his family for donkey years along with billy wylman from peel stret and we invented the route 66 coffee bar and the down stairs celler we created for our use of the gang and played music down there

Hi mikejee college road variuos During his time as a pastor at Ebenezer chapel in steelhouse, the reverend timothy East ,suggested to george Storer Mansfield . that there was a needfor the building of a colledge in which men could be trained for the ministry as a congregationalist. For this...

HI Barr Beacon thanks for the picture and for the memories of my yester years many thanks happy new year to you Astonian;;;;;

thanks again ray for the boots corner of aston road and tthe corner of park lane and right next to boots car park and loading bay was jelfs again there fish and chip shop then there was a wide opening with gates that was there groceryhire and ware house provisins two story high with a dwelling...

Hi There my friend the pub at the top of the ramp was called the Blarney stone and owned by liam oconnor along with the kery man and many more he as got orielys on aston cross which you be the golden cross pub