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Clifton Road Aston

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I remember Clifton Road
My grandfather lived in 5 court 8
The picture above reminds me just about where they lived in .
You had to go up an entry and the houses were at right angles to the main street.
My grandfather was Frank Yardley and he live there till he died in the 1950's
When I was a child I remember staying there and we had many happy memories of xmas parties where we stood round a piano
singing songs .No Television in those days .

Roy
 
Hi Judy - a brief update re. Jones family. Ralph Francis Jones m. Minnie Martin & had 2 children, Ralph b.1917 & Beryl Margaret b.1926 who married Thomas J.Tandy in 1949. Tom was b.1928 Birmingham & was the 4th of 7 children to Thomas Tandy & Margaret nee Bashforth. They had 3 girls, Sharman, Beryl & Deborah. Beryl & Tom spent the early years of their marriage living with Ralph & Minnie @ 166 Albert Rd, Aston. Beryl now lives on the Isle of Wight.
 
Hey-ho, I'm cracking up (again). Ralph Jones m.Minnie Martin & had 2 children Ralph FRANCIS & Beryl Margaret? I originally gave the middle name of FRANCIS to Ralph senior - what-a-mistake-a-to-make!
 
Hi Lostsoul - Great to hear from you again. Am I related to you? Are you Antony? Thanks for the update on the Jones family. As I said I was in contact with Tony briefly a few years ago and we sort of lost touch. I know that Mary Wren remembers Ralph and Minnie Jones as she has told me a little of what she remembers but she was only a small child at the time. I know that Ralph was living with Minnie and her Dad, James Martin, at Gothic Terrace before he and Minnie married.

I do have more information on the family if you are interested, but I would love to know more about Francis (Frank) as he is the one has has eluded me!!

Judy
 
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
 
Hi im new on here i think its great just been reading about your grandmother i used to mate about with a lad named Joey Moss who lived in Vicarage Road And i think the lady you are talking about was also his grandmother can you confirm this for me.
I used to live in Pugh Road
Regards David Smith
 
Hi David
Welcome to the Birmingham History forum.

Joey Moss was my cousin, his father was also Joseph and his mother was Rose, they had a large family and lived in Vicarage Road. I think they moved to Stockland Green or Erdington. His father died around 1956 just after Louisa his grandmother.


Louisa
 
Hi My name is Elaine. I have just read your post. My father was Joseph Moss born 1916 in Laburnum Place Upper thomas Street Aston. His father was Joseph Hobday Moss and his mother was Ethel Moss. They moved to Marsh Lane Erdington sometime in the 1930's, I think. Joseph senior died in 1943. Do you know of any connection to your family?
 
My wifes Grandfather Bill Bayliss used to live at 3/79 Clifton Road and was well known for singing and playing his concertina walking around the local streets after leaving the Crown pub at closing time.Also her uncle, Harold Bayliss used to be the manager of The Golden Lion on the corner of Clifton Road and Upper Thomas Street. Does anyone remember them?
 
I remember Harold Bayliss from The Golden Lion,and have contact with another neice of his,who also lived in Clifton Rd.
I also remember Mr.Gardener and his daughter from The Crown.
 
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Claribel,
look at post 49 on this thread, there is a photo.of the tunnel entry that lead to the back of No.79 Clifton Rd.also there is a relative of Harold Bayliss on there.
 
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Thanks Ray, we have looked at the photo, and yes we found his sister Doris who is my wifes aunt. Is the relative that you are in contact with the daughter of Doris, Sonia?
 
G'day Claribel,
It is indeed Sonia who I know,she used to live near me,but has since moved away.
We have contact on facebook,she must be your wife's cousin.Doris is standing behind one of my cousins (a little boy shading his eye's),there are 9 of my cousins on the photo.
 
Hi Everyone, I lived in 168 Clifton Road when I was a baby and my Dad stayed there for a long time afterwards that was in the 1950's. My Dad's name was Albert Webb. It was lovely to see the photo of the street as it was then.
 
Hi Ray, There is the photo of the road on page 1. On page 4 & 5 just says Attached Thumbnails and you can't open them. There are great stories on this blog about Clifton Road.

 
morning ray...yes its your pics on page 4 and 5 that need replacing i think....will see if i have any to post...

lyn
 
Here are some more of Clifton Rd.to show your mom Viv....Can't upload them shall try later.
 
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1967
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My grandfather was born at 140 Clifton Road, Aston Manor in 1895. Does anyone have an idea of the type of house this was, how many bedrooms etc., I have seen a photo someone posted on this thread but not sure what numbers I am looking at. I have googled the road on maps but see it is too modern for anything to have survived.
 
brum baby ,they usuually consisted of (1st floor) a front bedroom, a middle bedroom and a small back bedroom, which you accessed via the middle bedroom, and down stairs a front room (usually called a parlour and only used on special occassions) a middle room, which was the dining/living area and a back kitchen, which (in our case anyway) had a gas stove and a huge vat with a fire place underneath for the family washing, usually on a Monday in our house outside there was a brick built toilet and outhouse, there may be a garden if you were lucky but could just be a blue bricked yard, there was access to the rear via an entry, they also contained a damp cellar with a removeable grill, which was for tipping the coal down (my job was to count the sacks when the coalman arrived) I was born in one of these houses in 1930 in Queens Rd, not too far from Clifton Rd. Ininially, certainly during your Grandads time, the were all Gas, but they were partially electrified round about WW2, we had electric down stairs, but not upstairs, I suppose it would depend on your landlord. Eric
 
Brum baby,I lived in Clifton Rd for about 12 years,the houses were similar up the other end to the ones on Topsy turvys photo.the number of your grandads house was just about by Baglins coal yard,my cousins, and they were there when your grandad was born.Oh,we lived in a back house 5/106 and didn't have electricity until 1950.
 
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Thank you so much cookie273uk for your evocative description of the type of house my grandfather and his family would have lived in. I suppose compared to the back to backs this type of house would be considered quite luxurious. When my father was demobbed fromt he Fleet Air Arm in 1950, when I was three, we moved to a back to back in Ladypool Road and stayed there for a couple of years. I can just about remember the house. One room downstairs with sink and cooker which we lived in. One room upstairs and a small attic. We certainly don't know how lucky we are these days.
 
Do not have a picture, but can show you where it is.On the map below it is the red house near the junction with upper sutton St. The picture in post 121 of the two shops shows the buildings in yellow.

map_c_1889_clifton_road_aston_showing_no_140.jpg
 
Great to have a plan of where 140 was and thank you for posting it for me. I have decided, after many many years of researching my ancestors, to pad out their lives and write up as much as I can about them, Where they lived, their jobs etc., etc., I expect this will take me quite a few years to complete. What fun genealogy can be.
 
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