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It could be the Distillers ....John Walker and Son's Ltd...Bottling Stores.....

It isn't the school.....it looks like a factory in Allesley Street....

I think it could be Elkington Street Junior School...but I am not 100% certain.....

I would say it was pre war 2.....there is another photo in this group set with an old gentleman sitting on a bench which I believe is taken from the Miller Street end of the park ( known as Blews Street Park )....I think this view is from St Stephens Street, and the houses you can see are on...

Wallins Wood yard was on the corner of Talford Street and Phillips Street.....I last spoke to Jean Wallin a few years ago about the death of Robert Gouldingay, I didn't know Jean, but I knew Robert....he was a couple of years older than myself....

We may have been ....but I am a little bit older than you I think....born in 1953....but you would have been in the same class of my old mates....

Mr Parker was the headmaster at Upper Thomas Street.....I also had Miss Rock in the infants....., I don't know if you are on facebook at all, because there is a group for Upper Thomas Street on there, and a good one to be a member of is Astonbrook-through -Astonmanor, I know the admin on here...

Michael ...did you attend both Burlington Street and Upper Thomas Street schools ?..if so there is a good chance our paths crossed when we were kiddies in Aston...my family left Clarendon Street in 1969 to live in Kingstanding....Can you remember any of your school mates

, Roy was 7 years older than myself....his dad died when he was about 4 years old, his mother married Benjamin Dow they had a son named Malcolm who was a close mate of mine from the mid 1960's to early 1970's when we lost touch, the family moved to Bordesley in 1970 ....Michael you name rings a...

It was an advertisement for Neals the boot repairers.....the painting was of a worms view looking up at the sole's of the policemans boots.....

No....The house / yard faced Burlington Street......you could say it was half way between Park Lane and Upper Webster Street......That would be number 34a.....There wasn't a number 84a....the last house number was 62.....

The Ansell Shield used to hang on the wall facing the headmasters office, it was quite a large trophy ....I have always wondered what ever happen to that and the other cups etc which the school won ....

Post 134......They way I read it is ...they stayed behind and lived with theirs parents...they may have been an only child ...great photo....

The two photographs on the astonbrook web site did belong to me...I bought them off ebay a few years ago, for about £20 each.....but sold them on to a collector for a few pounds more a few months later, glad to say I made copies and had permission to post them ....

Cuckoo Road...

Post 361.....That is the front of Burlington Hall, the rear was in Park Lane

Post 89.....Facing the old bomb peck .....our adventure playground.....

Hi Lyn.....Does the book cover the senior school or the infant and juniors ?, if it's the senior boys, can you please check to see if my dad and uncle are mentioned ? my Dad Kenneth Colin and my uncle Ronald Colin, my dad was the elder of the two, thank you ...

Thank you for your reply Lyn....I had and have viewed all the photo's on that link...it may appear one day again I hope...

Hi Radiorails.......I did contact Carl a few years before that, he couldn't help me..he told me that he didn't own all the photographs that were printed.....thank you for your reply....