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Several images of Clifton Road here, including a this part view of No. 36 about 4 doors down on the right.
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The houses were demolished in the early 1970s to make way for the Aston Expressway.Just wondering if this still exists. My grandmother lived at number 36. I have tried googling it but it looks like those houses might have been pulled down
I know this is an old post but this photo is Upper Sutton Street with Priests haberdashery on the corner with Clifton Rd. It has been put up several times wrongly on other sites tooHeres a photo of Clifton Rd Aston that I found. I think its from the mid sixties.
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Bit of a delayed response but We lived at 1/147 Clifton Rd and knew the Clifford family. Our surname was TattamHi Louisa - my grandparents were Edmund and Annie Crutchley living at number 143 Clifton Road. My uncle (their son) Clifford Crutchley married Hannah Moss in 1935 - is she connected to your Moss's? I can remember my mum saying that my grandma was a bit sniffy about the fact they were "boat people" so I am assuming she fits in somewhere. My grandma died in 1935 just after my uncle's wedding, from breast cancer. My grandad and my mum and dad moved out into The Broadway after my grandad had a stroke in the early 50s.
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Yes I think so. Used to get our knitting wool from Priests.Priest's address was 109 Clifton Road, which is probably why the error occurred
Hi, This was my Grandads Coal yard Edwin Victor Baglin. It was great to read your memory of collecting coal and your description of him. I read your story to my mother today so thankyou for posting it. My Grandad died when i was only 2 so i didnt really remember him, but my nan continued the with business for some years after. My mom was a twin and all of the Baglin children are still alive today apart from the eldest who passed away last year aged 86.Clifton Road Coal Merchant
During the early 1960s i lived next door to the white swan pub on upper sutton street. I remember my dad sending me around the corner onto clifton road to the coal yard pushing an old pram, and some coal would be tipped into it. Am i right if i say the people who owned the coal yard had the surname of Baglin. The man i remember was always dirty looking to be expected if working with coal, he was a large man with a ruddy face, he wore a flat cap, and a small pair of spectacles. You would always see him in the area delivering in his lorry laden with coal sacks Who was he.?
Hi, This was my Grandads Coal yard Edwin Victor Baglin. It was great to read your memory of collecting coal and your description of him. I read your story to my mother today so thankyou for posting it. My Grandad died when i was only 2 so i didnt really remember him, but my nan continued the with business for some years after. My mom was a twin and all of the Baglin children are still alive today apart from the eldest who passed away last year aged 86.
thanks for posting that query mike...as you know my friend who we have been helping lived at 103 clifton road and she said that those houses are not the same as the one she lived in...her house had 2 upstairs bedroom windows and 2 steps up to the front door and those in that photo do not...she has also mentioned a coal yard nearby...hope someone who knew this road can help us
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Hi, lily is my aunt and she's still around today and so are all of the baglin children apart from marge who passed away last year. AndrewClifton Road, Aston
Uncle, you are right about Baglins having a coal yard in Clifton Road. Lily his daughter and other family members went to Burlington Street and Upper Thomas Street schools and often come to the Annual Reunion at the Barn Social Club, Witton, held on the 7th July.
Hi, ive Just read your post my aunt is Lilly Baglin and she is still with us. AndrewRay, l knew a Lily Baglin, she was in all my classes at Burlington St Sch....along with Audrey Wright, Shiela Trevitt ..l wonder where they are now.....Brenda
Hi. We lived at 1/147, so almost opposite, one entry up from Barkers newsagents. We always got our coal from your Grandad (again, in the old pram!) but our coke from the gasworks I think. I remember my Dad 'banking up' the fire with nutty slack at bedtime so that it was still going when he got up in the morning for work and so he didn't have to light the fire from scratch. We had all the shops we needed at close hand, wish it was like that today.Hi, This was my Grandads Coal yard Edwin Victor Baglin. It was great to read your memory of collecting coal and your description of him. I read your story to my mother today so thankyou for posting it. My Grandad died when i was only 2 so i didnt really remember him, but my nan continued the with business for some years after. My mom was a twin and all of the Baglin children are still alive today apart from the eldest who passed away last year aged 86.
Hi Malcolm. I don’t know if you do Facebook but there’s a group on there ‘Aston B6’ and there’s loads of really interesting stuff on there. The groups really friendly, only three main rules, run by Amanda Wood. I’ve found a long lost cousin, spoken to people who I knew as a child. Lots of people linked to Gothic Terrace.Hi, I have only just discovered this brilliant thread about Clifton Road. My link is via 16 Gothic Terrace where my grandfather was born in 1905. I have found a map of the location of Gothic Terrace, a few photos of Clifton Road and a potential photo of Gothic Terrace posted some time ago. The people on here are the friendliest and most knowledgeable I have come across. Thank you all so much I am searching through the whole thread to see what else I can discover!
Brilliant, you are all stars.
Malcolm
Hi Malcolm, we lived at 1/161 Clifton Road from 1959-1969. Our entry, if I remember correctly, would have backed on to Gothic Terrace. Those back to backs were quite a bit higher than the road and the first house on the left had a wall separating the small garden from the pavement. Our name was CarneyHi Malcolm. I don’t know if you do Facebook but there’s a group on there ‘Aston B6’ and there’s loads of really interesting stuff on there. The groups really friendly, only three main rules, run by Amanda Wood. I’ve found a long lost cousin, spoken to people who I knew as a child. Lots of people linked to Gothic Terrace.
Thank you very much for letting me know about this Facebook link. I will ask my son to access it for me. And thank you for your description of the houses, it all helps to get a picture of what it was like to live there.Hi Malcolm, we lived at 1/161 Clifton Road from 1959-1969. Our entry, if I remember correctly, would have backed on to Gothic Terrace. Those back to backs were quite a bit higher than the road and the first house on the left had a wall separating the small garden from the pavement. Our name was Carney
Hi BrispeeseMy grand parents - Charles John & Elsie May Sheasby lived at 136 Clifton Road, into the mid sixties. They had four sons, my dad, Alfred Ernest Sheasby, and uncles, Arnold George Sheasby, Royston John Sheasby and Maurice Sheasby (only surviving son) - does anyone have any recollection of them? Pop, my grandfather, worked at M.B. Wild & Co until at least December 1958, when he was presented with a Bernex gold watch for twenty-one years service.
Hi Judy & BillJudy,
It was Court 27, left hand side back of 163 and right hand side back of 161 my Dad, Henry John Chinn, was born in 1914 at '3 back of 161' from memory, certainly one of the 'back' houses. I'll have to check his birth certificate again, he was a twin and sadly his brother William Percy died before reaching his 1st birthday. Bill.
Hi Mikec - I know that my family lived in Gothic Terrace, which was Court 24. They lived in the same Court from at least 1881 until 1925. Gothic Terrace was very near to you as it was between 157 and 159. I only wish that I'd been able to visit the area while it was still standing. So I love to hear about it and what it was like. JudyHi Judy & Bill
We lived at 1/161 Clifton Road from 1959 until we got rehoused in 1969. I was the eldest and I had 2 younger sisters. We all went to Upper Thomas Street until we moved to Kingstanding in 69