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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 Aston lad Here is another photograph for your collection they are A.R, P. Wardens of D Division [south ] Outside the entrance to AstoN

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...