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Hi guys just add a litle add on to the previous thread regarding the Biddles partys and yes i said yesterday
that i coiuld not recall the pub they used and partyed all night hours was in fact the Lord Clifton if any body recalls that one
and the jelfs kept a B@B two doors from the clifton...
Hi mrs superdad
I have just picked on your thread and what made me stop and look scrolling up and down the forum
and stopped on your thread is because of the names you put
because you have put half the names that by...
Hi there
I know this thread in searching the biddle family started a very long time ago and i mentionioned the biddles of Aston
whom was money lenders around the top end of six ways towards birchfield road way
and i did mention about the stories of my mother...
Hi viv
first of all thanks for those brillient photos, and i would like to ask you or any other member of the forum
what is todays situation regarding parking within the park of Aston park ground I kow years ago it was expected andknowing what i have seen of the change...
Hi jos and night nurse
we lived at 156 berners street right next door to the old school and four doors from the pub
on the corner of gerrard street
And if my memory serves me correctly many years...
Yes indeed Alan they produced the orage juice in cartons and the fresh milk and it was Handsworth dairies introduced the automatic vending machines in brum for such items Astonian,,,
Adapt2it
Many years ago they did a open tour but it was after the passage way murder
they restricted access , and i believe thinking back to the fiftys or just short of that perid
it was very limited to the rooms they would show you...
Hi Peg
we had ten in our house eventualy and because of the performance of taking in turn on a sunday night
and bring in the tin bath and line up for our weekly cod liver oil doze
The old man changed tacits and brought our bath time earlier and took us all up to...
Hi Grah
Thanks for that extra information you have given us, and it would be great if you could find that photograph
and put it up for us best wishes Alan,,,, Astonian,, PS, By the way how are your knees of late ,?,
Hi Old mowhawk
you should have remembered in the old days true gentlemen always remove there hats in the presents of a true lady ,
over the decade gone bye i think i have only wittness about five time
afew...
Hi Viv and Dave
Here is abit more on the subject of Aston Park And Aston Hall History mentioned
And Guys you have heard the expression of the true cockney, being born between the bells
Well here is the saying...
Hi Pedro
firstly to say your in put of information as been on this forum over a decade ago but sadly its been shang ied
along with the rest of the items all lost so its great to see you bring it back
over 12 years ago i would say it was ...
well usally if the pub is closeing down permantley it,s down to the gather to dispose of all the bits and pieces
and the winner takes all come what may he wants , apart from the brewery possesions ie ,,tables and chairs , mirrors
and of cause the stocks and ledgers , any think else its...
Well Aston Lad
I Also went to upper thomas street but in the fortys many moons before 1968
on the subject of the hideaway tunnel wich they used was not covered by a chair
the original tunnel was used by the holtes...
yes i can recall those little bottles of milk at school in those early years
Iwas a milk monitor at st marys school Aston
and in the winter bleak winters then days , deep in snow we had to dragg all those little crates across the play ground
to the school building and eventualy we had to...
Hi Cellia Dillworth
you say they got married in st marks birmingham
did you ever had an address for them on there marriage certificates ot what part of birmingham
they gave on that day ,as i had a...
HI Dave
On the subject of floating around in your cuppa or tea what ever , i am very caution when it comes to my tea,
but being you have mentionioned holts milk and the skins floating in your milk
firstly do you recall the Automatic milk machine...
Hi viv,
I do beleive it was behind a chair passage that they used to go in the early 1900 on tour through it
i am not saying it was that particular chair but a study room was mentioned with a hugh wall wich was full of books
and people could stand...
Hi Alan,
when we was on the road for Dyno rod of palmaston road spark hill we used to spend alot of time in different cafes
up and down the midland and pull into the little cafes and the old transport cafes for lorry drivers
long before the councils came on...