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Are there any Weavers still out there, used to be thousands? Regards, David Weaver

Does anyone know anything about the street urchins who guarded the cars of Aston Villa supporters, for home games, around the surrounding streets? I'm talking both pre and after the war. Regards, David.

Does anyone remember the year the lion escaped from the circus at The Onion Fair next to Aston Church? Mum used to tell me about it so it would have been before the nineteen thirties or thereabouts. Thanks, David Weaver.

It has been suggested I write a profile of myself for the site. This I find rather difficult because nothing much has happened to me, compared to many others with more interesting lives, but here goes and you can make of it what you will. Mum and Dad married in Aston Church and we kids, seven of...

‘The Valley of the Whistling Wind’ David Weaver © When you walk through ‘The valley of the whistling wind’, in the rock carve the face of a lover. Feel the fresh breeze from a land faraway, and remember the love for another. The sun shines harsh off the granite peaks, at the ridge beware the...

Does anyone remember, prior to the war, standing in front of the trumpeter of the Salvation Army sucking a slice of lemon? It caused no end of lousy music, and I wondered if it was widespread or just me being horrible.

Does anyone know what happened to Billy Freer. His family were killed in the 1942 blitz. They lived in Church Lane, Aston? Thanks.

My dad used to carry bags of coal down Coronation Place in Aston. He reckoned it was so long he used to meet 'iself cumin back'. Anyone remember it?