Hi Fay
Just read your post with interest. My aunt Lil SIMPKINS, formerly INGRAM, nee FARLEY lived on Clifton Road, Aston. Don't know when she moved there but she left in the late 1960's/early 1970's to move to South Africa to live with her son Stanley INGRAM. I remember as a small child, visiting her in Clifton Rd and being sent out to play in the backyard with her grandchildren Gary and Julie ROPER. The houses were in a terrace with approximately 5 houses each side of a pathway that ran up the middle with their backyards on either side. As far as I can remember the houses were reached via an alley/entry. I remember my mum telling me about "little Margaret Reynolds" who lived near aunt Lil and that she went missing. She had been abducted, raped and murdered in 1966 by Raymond Morris and the case was referred to in the press as 'The Cannock Chase Murders' and the 'A34 Murders'. Aunt Lil knew the family and apparently Margaret used to speak to us whenever we went to visit. I was only thinking about this the other day as I had a picture come into my mind of the layout of the houses for some reason!
Liz