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pjmburns....The photograph would have stood in the road or on the small pavement of the underpass wall close to where the bus shelter is ....

I think there is a photo of the shop in one of Alton Douglas's look back books, All mine are in the loft and I cannot off my fatty to search, maybe later in the year ...

Sorry John_Gower, but you are incorrect, the photographer would have been standing on or very near the junction of Upper Thomas Street and Park Lane, if he looked to his/her left the view would have been the houses on Upper Thomas Street, with Tower Road crossing it (left towards Potters Hill...

I use to buy all my import records from there in the early 1970's, when it was named Just Records.

I did a bit of searching through the old local (Birmingham ) papers yesterday evening didn't find anything, What years are we looking at ?,I suppose they may have just sang in the local pubs therefore they wouldn't have no need to use the local papers to advertise which would have cost money...

Post number 90, is not The Retreat in Aston, this has been on here before and the location was found but I am sorry I cannot remember where it was ....

I read somewhere that it known as the Oasis of Aston ....it was the area of green around that area ....

Well it was almost....a few yards before you got to Bertha's.....it was facing the street I was born and bred in Clarendon Street.

What Brenda said is quite correct, It was still there when I left in 1969, and it was probably pulled down with the rest of that area around 1970-1972ish, It was a land mark for those travelling on the number 8 bus ( inner circle )

The main peck was between Wilkinson Street and Philip Street, the houses on the even side on The Retreat was also a bomb peck...the only building on that side of the road was two small car garages, one of them belong to a neighbour of ours Howard Faulkner ....he use to bring his car out once a...

The only photo's I have ever seen are the even numbers, most of odd numbers wasn't there when I was a kid growing up just around the corner, bombed during the war,

The 1939 register is updated every now and then but I don't know how often it is, Ancestry updated theirs a few weeks ago, Findmypast I think is a better site to search the 1939 register, I have found people on theirs which are blanked out or just missing on Ancestry ...

That is our Gingerjohn's family ....John Houghton....

Ref photo number 700, I cannot recall the name but I think the block of flats were the one on the corner of Aston Hall Road and Waterworks Street .....

I was there from June 85 till sometime in 1991, then Walsall until 1998, and then Wolverhampton where I finish last Friday ...

Yes Bob

I worked with Barry in Tyburn Road, until we were moved out in 1991ish, a very humble person knew quite a bit about buses and aeroplanes....

Ref photo 602......The cars parked up in the distance are on the shared drive with Gaedor closest and a woodyard cannot remember their name, but later Tom Bytheway took over both premises.....Great Photo....., about 3 years before I worked at Gaedor...

Bob....I don't think Moss Garage was on the junction of Tyburn Road and the Chester Road, There was a Austin dealership on the junction of Kingsbury Road and the Chester Road facing the Tyburn house pub, named Tyburn Garage, my mate worked there and I work opposite at a auto electrician's called...

They are almost facing Elkington Street.....I had a school mate who lived there during the 1960's