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Carl Chinn published a photo in the Birmingham Evening Mail before the Brummagem magazine came out, I have been trying for a number of years to obtain a copy.....It was taken in 1936 on the corner of Sutherland Street and Montague Street in Aston outside the public house named The Pump, its a...

I think I am mentioned in the first issue along with Rod Birch.....One of the best articles that made me smile was from Doreen Gunnell nee Chapman ( a lady I knew when I was a youngster ), she wrote about her dad working in the bull ring as a carter, and that he would help anyone, one day he...

I have done for years....and even bought some as well ......

John....I was informed a while ago that all three photo's are looking towards Park Road from the top end of Clifton Road close to Park Road itself....

Brilliant.....

Ref post 167....It has indeed bought back a few memories...puncture outfits, bicycle pumps, tyres, air rife pellets, almost anything you needed Keights had it....I can remember buying light bulbs, Mrs Keight would test it first by using a socket on the counter...., there was no protected window...

This is the only one I have (I think)

A.Sparks Just Records were at the front of Lyndon Square.......

I have probably used every record shop mentioned in this post....But the shop I may have used the most was Just Records in Perry Barr....the owner was always able to get me the recording I requested, mostly imports and a few bootlegs....this was in the earlier 1970's.....

It is Lyn.....It had a new outside built and inners, member Empty was living there during the modernisation .....

Sorry Lyn.....It still standing on Park Close, it the building you posted on the google earth photo....Its no longer used as a pub I have been informed, but as a warehouse....

The Shareholders was number 25 Park Lane, was when it was first built and it was until the 1970's when the change the course of the lane from in front of the pub to the rear....the pub as always stood in the same place....

Lyn......I have to agree with Empty, who I know lived there at the time it was modernised ....It wasn't knocked down, it wasn't on the opposite side of the road, all the Kelly's directories I have, address it on the odd numbers side of ParkLane..... I am sorry to say Alan is incorrect.....

Moira Taylor who lived in the Shareholders posted this photograph of her and her parents cira 1962, on the astonbrook group we have on facebook....... quote "Here's Mum and me with a pal of Dad's at the same point before the pub makeover. You can see the line of the same terraced houses on the...

OldMohawk....how do you do that ....., take a black and white photograph and change it to colour ?, Is there a programme you can buy, or is it hours of pain taking filling in the colours....

Astonboy....Here are a few of the teachers, pupils, and Mr Parker....I cannot take any credit for these I pinched them off Friends Reunited a long time ago....

Great Photo's Lyn......:)

Hi Astonboy...sorry for the delay in replying been down Cornwall .....my Name is John Colin.....and the only people I can recall living at number 31, was a family named of Rutter, and after them was Bratt....all the Rutters boys were older than me, and the only Bratt of my age group was David ...

Aston Boy....I was there from 1964 to 1968 (seniors)....I can recall the names of the teachers you have mentioned, and somewhere on my computer I have a photo of Mr Parker....,

Raven8.....View post 240, he may be on one of them .....