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I wonder if you ever visited our house in Ash Rd.

Hi Ron, your name rings a bell. I went to Nansen, too. I was there from 1959 thru' 1966. There were a few of us Stretton's that went to that school. My classmates were Ann Jackson, Pauline Underhill, Andrew Hall, Marcus Etheridge and I think there was an Andrew Swan,

I lived at 44 and my mum used to send me down to Cutt's to get a quarter pound of ham or cornbeef. On my birthday Mrs. Cutts used to give me a 'Lucky Bag'.

Hi, my mum has this book called ‘memories of Ward End’ Cocksparrow Hall is mentioned. Here are some quotes....Mr.Jim Peel, “ I bought popcorn from there, 2 Woodbine’s and 2 matches cost 1/2d. Mrs. Dolly Jones, “an old lady sold sweets out of wooden boxes at Cocksparrow Hall for 1/2 penny, put in...

Yes, we had Dr. Jones, I didn't like him as much as Dr. Patel.

The shops and the first house (where my aunty lived) plus a lot more houses and a shop on Adderley Road were demolished , ,because of poor visibility on that corner, we were told.

This is the place I was asking about, my relatives house.

I wonder if you came to our house in Ash Road.

Hi, Born in Sacramento Hospital. Lived at 44 Ash Road, where my grandparents moved to, in the 30's from Crawford Street. I lived there until the seventies. My mother lived there most of her life until she died there in 2011 at the age of 80.

My Uncle Bertie used to work at the MET, I used to watch him trudging up Phillimore Road, he was a chain smoker and the walk home always made him out of breathe. I think some of my other Uncles may have worked there breifly, too. I was young then, and didn't really pay too much attention to...

This is Adderley Road not Adderley Street. With the 3 A's on the corner of Ash Road.

I'm doing a course in English Lit. that's based around stately homes and as a sideline came across this article. I thought what is happening the the old Golden Lion would upset the author Peter Burman, Director, Centre for Conservation Studies, loAAS, University of York and another author who...

The piece about the gypsies peeked my interest, so I googled the vicar and found this:- https://lelant.info/cinderella.htm

Love these pictures berniew. As I grew up in Ash Road. The second pic of Hall Road leading to Ash Road you can see the factories behind the flats. That area was my own private playground (there are houses built there now) as our house was right next to the 'opening'. Mom worked in one of those...

I think the gates are always locked now. My mom lived in Ash Road until 2011 and I haven't seen the gates open for years. When my mom was a girl, her and her brothers used to pick the bluebells from the church yard and would get a right telling off from my grandmother.

My mom used to get her lunches from here when she worked at Thornley & Knights.

Saltley Hall was at the back of the houses on Ash Road. The house was gone when I was small, but, the stables and some old columns from the house remained. The stables and other out buildings had small factories and workshops in them. My mom used to work in one of them before I was born...

There was one of these in Crawford Street, I last saw it in the 80's. I wonder if it's still there?

I heard that tale too. And, I vaguely remember going to look for it.

Phill, This is not the Norton hall that is in Ralph Road. My mother used to tell me about your Norton Hall, and she said it had been removed from the back of the houses in Ash Road.