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Yep, fantastic aren’t they. Dad says when they went on those early trips they were the only ones in the street that went camping. Clearly it was a trend to catch on

What were your parents names Jean?

Here are some more for you, one from the same camping trip of Harold and little Rosie Brueton with their parents Martha and Fred (also of Holte Road) and my Dad Dennis (the young boy). the other photo is of Fred on his motorbike with Rosie and my Dad outside number 49 Holte Road. These camping...

Here’s a couple of snaps taken in just such a holiday. This is my dad Dennis Chapman (49 Holte Road) having a wash with his Uncle Sonny Price, I believe on holiday in Llandudno. The old army tents and camping stuff were transported by lorry and the family travelled by motorbike and sidecar to...

Here are a series of photos taken during the late 1930s of the Station Road School Football Team and Deykin Avenue School football and cricket teams. My father, Dennis Chapman (of 49 Holte Road) is back right in the Station Road photo, second left in the Deykin Avenue School 1938-40 football...

my gran lived at 49. So not far away. I wonder if it was her.

What number did your mum live at? My gran was called May Chapman and I wonder if it’s the same May.

My father Dennis Chapman, used to motorcycle with Eck Hyland after the war (around early part of the 1950s). They were both members of the Pyramid MCC based in Aston.

I’ve another. This is my Great Uncle Fred’s team, possibly the same sort of time or even a few years earlier. Any ideas which team this is?

My Grandfather Leslie Chapman used to play for a local football team. He lived in Aston at the time. I wondered if anyone could possibly identify the team he played for from the attached photograph? I think this would be around the early 1920s. Les is second on the right at the back, in the...

Not really, but we moved approximately 1962 from there so I think it will be around then assuming the new proprietor changed the name of the shop.

This is mum (Olwyn Ann Chapman) stood out the back of the shop approx. late 1950s and Dad (Dennis Chapman) in the living room which I think was in above the shop 1961

Here’s another photo featuring the shop, sorry the qualities not the best.

I can just make out O. A. Chapman over the shop, my mum’s name, which is why I’m fairly confident thats it. I’m really chuffed to find this photo as I was born there :)

I think 107 is the sweet shop just this side of the Sunblest lorry on the right in this photo.

My father Dennis Chapman was born at 49 Holte Road on 11th April 1926. He lived there with his mother Elsie (May), father Leslie and younger brother Ken until 1954 when he got married.

107 isn’t on this photo but it is immediately right of the girl in the bottom right corner of the picture.

Here are some even grainier (sorry they are the best I have) of the interior of 107 around Christmas time 1961. As it’s a sweet shop predictably there are boxes of chocolates and sweet jars.

Here are a couple of grainy photos of 107 (snatched from a VHS copy of a cine film taken on my christening day late summer 1961).

There was a grocers on the corner, there was a newspaper shop and radio shop opposite. Not too far away was a Drs, the Post Office and Corn Store (pet shop), plus an ice place where you went to get ice to make ice cream in the days before you could freeze you own ice.