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I've just got my 2 x gt.grandmother's Death Certificate, showing that she died at 32a Parliament Street in 1898. Lyn (Astoness) kindly told me about this thread as I was hoping to find a photo of the street. On Google Maps it is all new housing now. The photos that have been posted here give...

Thanks Lyn. I should have checked first!! Will have a look now. Judy

Has anyone got an old photo of Parliament Street, Aston? I've just received a death certificate for my 2 x gt.grandmother and she died at 32a. I'd love to see what this road looked like. I tried Google maps but see the area is now all new houses. The rest of my family lived not far away...

Wendy, the photo you posted is the same as the one on the Facebook group, and there are photos on there from two different angles. Judy

As I said to Tom Burke on Facebook, I have a copy of Good Wives which was given to my Mom in 1922 as a Special Prize when she attended St James's Sunday School. I don't know what the special prize was for though. It's good to see what the church looked like.

Thanks Carolina. I have seen this lovely drawing before and think it is just fascinating, and shows why Bull Street was the main shopping thoroughfare of its day. Unfortunately No.34 isn't shown on it!! However I do know that James Stephens had moved his business to 62 Constitution Hill by...

That is so interesting Carolina. My 4 x gt grandfather, James Stephens, was a Shoemaker with a shop at 34 Bull Street from at least 1815. So he wouldn't have been that far from Hudsons Book Shop. With the help of others on the Forum we calculated that No.34 would have been roughly where the...

Another from Dennis Williams' collection (shown on Facebook)

Dennis Williams has written an article on the Coach House Yard and this photo, on the Facebook Birmingham History Forum thread. He says: After the cutting through of Corporation Street in 1896 the Coach Yardwas built upon and roughly where Dalton Street was….and a new Stork Hotel was built...

Thanks Mo. I didn't know you had a connection to the school. Just for interest, here is a page from the Kings Heath School Log Book Christmas/New Year 1929-30. Judy

My Mom went to Kings Heath School in 1924, when the family moved from Aston to Billesley. She always called it 'The Institute', and would tell me how she would button up her boots and walk across Billesley Common from Bromwall Road to school. Billesley Common looks a bit different these days...

I remember those pulley cash containers well. It wasn't only the Co-op that used them. I remember them well in quite a few shops. The assistant would put your payment into a little can shaped container and it would be whisked away up to the cash desk or similar, where your receipt and change...

I remember those little screw top bottles with orange juice - what a delicious taste that was. Plus Virol which was like toffee. As we didn't get much in the way of sweets during the war, I loved my spoonful of Virol. Didn't much like the Scots Emulsion though or the cod liver oil - eek!

I wonder if they're having their lunch or feeding the pigeons!

If you find one Walsallie, I'd love to see it. My first school was at Handsworth Kindergarten in Park Avenue, just on the corner of Vicarage Road in Handsworth. Run by a Miss Treglowen (Treggie). I lived in Soho Avenue and played around that area all the time. Judy

Those booths are a real pain. I have only visited the new library on a couple of occasions but on both times I had a long wait for whoever was using the section I wanted to finish. It was much easier before when the books were on open shelves. Judy

Yes, my Dad would always say "up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire"

John Crump, my uncle Percy Thompson, was manager of the Tivoli on Coventry Road for many years - probably in the 40s. Judy

Re: st marys chapel loveday st If you find the answer Lyn, I would be interested to hear. Judy