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Does anyone remember Fred Gibbs, who lived in Aston Church Rd, He was a driver, and always went about in his overalls, I fired for him once, and he only had two positions with the regulator, fully off or fully on, chunks of coal used to come out the chimney, I believe when the diesels came out...

Just found this site, only ten years late at replying,went to leigh road school, left in 1963, friends were Terry vaughan, Roger Tovey, Peter Lodge, Alas Spears. Charles Harbone

Hi Mike,more than likely, there was always lads and girls down there, I occasionally went to leigh Rd School, hated it with a passion, often dragged there by my Farther when caught bunking off, my farther was a taxi driver, and his cab was parked out side the house in Aston Church Rd, You may...

Hi Mike Fantastic pictures, bought the memories flooding back, Thank you found these while searching, amazed to find this picture, the first one is where spend my child hood, many a hour on the bank, the second one will interest you, if you scroll down there is a picture of...

Hi Mike, vaguely, was this the branch that crossed the road on the bridge the bottom of the road by Arley road, we used to go onto the embankment by the viaduct putting pennies on the line, and there was a canal also, which I fell in more than once, my friends were Terry...

Sorry my name is Charles

we used to get up early Sunday mornings when the diversions were on,and it was still dark, and when a train was coming we used to run across the road halfway up the path to the signal box, and shine a torch to see the numbers, I think the signal box had been closed for some time before it burnt...

Hi all, searching about Aston sheds, I came across this forum, thanks for having me, when I left school at 15 in 1963, My brother in law who was a fireman got me a job at Aston loco sheds as a engine cleaner, and progressed as far as past cleaner, and did a fair bit of firing before the demise...