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Aston Hall

Thanks for posting your late uncle's photo Peter. Brings back memories when us kids from Holte road used to slide down the hills there in the snow on anything flat we could lay our hands on. Jean.
 
hi all.i loved aston park and the .padlin pool but when i was a kid no way could you get me in the hall.it had a strange smell.and i was afraid of the place.
 
Pete I remember the smell too but I used to go in with an adult. They used to say a ghost walked round with his head under his arm in the long gallery I think?. Jean.
 
hello.jean that is what i was afraid of.GHOSTS. and still am i might seem daft but i see em. 3 since i moved here.
 
Hello Pete you can keep em. No that sounds awful but Aston Hall has got an awful lot of past. I am a descendent on my mom's side but the baby was born the wrong side of the bed so no claim I am afraid. Jean.
 
G G Jean said:
Pete I remember the smell too but I used to go in with an adult. They used to say a ghost walked round with his head under his arm in the long gallery I think?. Jean.
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I did not think to post this photo by my late uncle Tony as the quality was not so good, but all the talk of ghosts made me change my mind. This must have been taken around the early 60's, and he had written on the bottom that this was the position of many ghost sightings.

All the best Peter
 
Talking about being thrown out, I got chucked out of Lewis’s in the 50s for jeering at the man selling an apple de-corer. He said “Ladies, they cost just half a crown, and if you were to go to the Ideal Home Exhibition at Bingley Hall today, you would be charged 2/11d.” Whereupon I shouted “Big Deal!” Next thing I knew I was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and thrown out of the door. The last thing I heard was the salesman saying “And to think, I was going to give the apple to that boy. But before I hit the street I managed to shout back…”You can stick your apple…”
 
Beamish you know what I mean?. The apple. Peter that too looks like a painting?. I can't make out just where it was taken but could be the path that runs parallel with the Villa grounds?. Not sure though. Jean.
 
I think that might be the path from the other side of the park,cant remember the name of the street but i used to use it to go and see my nan in Tower rd. I used togo in the main entrace, up the hill to the top and turn left, it went past the tennis courts and straight on you would come to the other gate
 
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G G Jean said:
Beamish you know what I mean?. The apple. Peter that too looks like a painting?. I can't make out just where it was taken but could be the path that runs parallel with the Villa grounds?. Not sure though. Jean.
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I think this is the path up to the Hall in line with Aston Parish Church.

Regards Peter
 
Thank you so much for these photo's I wish I could go back fifty years. Not the place it is today it breaks my heart.
 
No problem. They looked stunning in the snow, on a clear, but freezing cold day back in January 2010. They were nearby Villa Park, so I took these as well.

The area is mostly Asian now. I walked here from Aston Six Ways.
 
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A picture taken of Aston Parish Church in the Spring this year, and one looking up to the Gargoyles. The nearest one is toasting our health with a tankard of ale.

As an aside can anyone remind me of the name of the pub that was just under the motorway? If my memory serves me right was there a Doctor’s Surgery nearby, I seem to remember the name Freshwater.

Regards Peter
 
Hi jean
just been reading some of your frolics around aston hall with patty
you mentioned teddy smart well ted was my uncle bill smarts brother i do not whom was the oldest of the two
when i was a kid fresh out of school i worked with bill and ted his brother at the birmingham bottle exchange down st michaels hill
ted was the foreman when ted left aston what ever year it was he move to the street just before devonshire st
off lodge rd and later bill followed to lodge rd and took acare takers job at lodge rd church
its a small world jeanie , take care alan
 
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