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l remember a chippy opposite the chippy shown,we used to come out the Astoria and buy chips there and eat them on the way home.

My brother and l lived in copeley street a cul-de-sac and numerous had different shelters we had a Anderson and some had a Morrison one, because those houses did have a cellar....,lremember the first raid on Brum, my dad grabbed my brother and l and rushed us down the shelter, later on we...

l came to Texas in1958 at age 22...and married...did'nt want to come but as my father said your place is with your husband even if he is Timbucktoo,...l worked in IBM after l left school so was able to get a job very easy in the US. when l hit 62 l was able to get my english pension as l paid...

Like you and everyone else l get so many scam calls, they usually start around 3.00pm untill 8'00,pm a few days ago l decided to go along with what they were pushing, they all have a foreign twang ( which is very hard to decipher) well they had a plan of somesort and asked my age ....when...

l arrived in June 1958, middle of Texas summer, l told my mother l know what hell must feel like as it was so hot, l don'nt think l've ever get climatised after all these years, we live a few miles from the beach but never go there, what we need right now is a tropical storm (not a...

Be glad your getting any rain as here in Texas we have had over two months of 100degs plus there is no way plants can withstand this heat everybodies lawn has turned brown as with watering has,nt helped and now were not allowed to water, it really is a disasster, if it was'nt for for the...

Richard l see you travelled afar like me ..l ended up in Lake Jackson tx..l wonder how many Astonites ended up in the USA..Brenda

Got up at 3oclock yesterday and watched tv untill the funeral was over,what a beautiful send off our Queen had, and very moving, only the Brits are able to do what was a wonderful show of pagentry, we shall miss the Queens smiling face,

viv if you would check on #8 posted oct 1 2012 all the questions are answered..my father was an electric fitter all his life and worked at Ellisons for 40years.

Viv, thank you for the picture, that is the painting i was talking about, l do have a black and white photo, of the painting and i am so pleased to see it colour, my father Wilfred Barr is in the background. this has really made my day and will save and show my grand children, once again thank...

my grandfather Wm Joseph Barr, had his horse returned to him after ww1 and turned his horse to paster in Fillongley, saying she was never going to work again.

Eric, my uncle Len Barr, worked in the drawing office about the time you were there., wonder if you knew him ??..Brenda. wonder

My grandfathers horse was recruited in1914( he had a feed store on Park Road), and was one of the lucky horses to make it back my g/f was so happy to have him back and realized his horse must have been been through hell, so the horse was turned to pasture never to work again.

Ann, my g/father Wm J Barr was the oldest of 6 boys he was only 14 when his mother died but tried to keep the family together...4 of them went to an orphanage but as soon as they were old enough my g/father got them out to live with him, John was the youngest, their mother Teresa Barr d 1895...

My grt uncle John Bertram Barr is on the memorial, his parents Thomas and Teresa Barr had already died but he resided with Wm Joseph Barr (my grandfather) at Park Road.

1 was born in Loveday street Maternity home 1935 lived in Aston all my life until 1958 when i emigrated to Texas, still consider myself a Brummie and always will...Brenda

we lived in Copeley street a (cul -de -sac) Aston, and we had a knocker upper who lived in the Street her name was Polly Foster, l know my family never used her but a lot of our neighbours did, l think she was still doing it when l left in 1958,....l have never had an alarm clock always woke...

What a nice aerial pic of Aston l was working at Johnny Wrights when that picture was taken and l knew all the roads around that area,

The policeman with the big booted feet was right beside Neals shoe reparing on Park Lane...l guess it was an advertisement for come get your shoes repaired,,,,that policemen had been there as far back as l can remember l left Aston in 1958 and it was there then