hi there
going by what i can remember of crawford street way back in the forties and fifties ash rd was posh compared to crawford street beleive me
and the houses was bigger and better conditions and cleaner from the bottom of ash rd up to the churtch yard even thou the old church yard as always been over grown in the last donkeys years but from before the war years and up to the fifties it was always well kept until late early fifties then it fell in a bad state of unkempt and continued up to todays recining
i remember the blackburn family from crawford st and the sharps from lichfield rd moving up to ash rd ina very small and the only block of of masonettes in ash rd in the early fifties ash rd suffered by the water rats problerms it was not the boat people whom they wanted to escape from eventualy the birmingham council
eventual cleared crawford st once andfor all by the late fiftyies and the very early sixtys
best wishes astonion