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Dog And Duck, High Street Aston

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Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
Dog and duck as well as the House That Jack Built. Sadly all gone now. :brokenheart:
 

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Nice one postie, favorite saying in our house was, where's Dad you'll find him in the Dog & Duck or The Stork. Evenings The Lion:D
 
Postie, thanks for the photo of the Dog & Duck must have walked past 100s of times, never drank in there, but I had a school friend Rebecca Houston and her mom and dad were the landlord and lady during the 1940s/50s and we used to play upstairs in a big, dusty room at the front of the pub overlooking Newtown Row, it was like a big store room and we had great games up there. It was probably a concert room at sometime.
 
Does anyone remember a shoe shop close by.. The people who owned it lived in Holte road at no 92. Can't remember their names but they had a lovely son who died at an early age. I couln't understand why as I was so young at the time. My aunt and uncle lived at 94. Jean.
 
Jean, Timpsons was next door or next door but one to the Dog & Duck, but it was part of a chain. When my son was a toddler he would let go of my hand and charge up the stairs at Timpsons, I can't think what the attraction was.
 
Syliva whats the shop in between looks like Hamilton & Son or Milton:)
 
It must have been another shop along that road but as I said I was very young at the time and may have thought they owned it but maybe managed it Sylvia. I will go to bed tonight wake up in the middle of it and remember their names. Bye. Jean.
 
Alf, the shop you asked about was Hamiltons Butchers, run for many years by Harold Cooper and his wife. I went to school with one of their sons Walter, and another son Ray had a newsagents opposite the Stork pub for many years from about the mid 1950s. On the main site is a story about Harold Cooper and some photos that Ray Cooper lent me of his mom and dad in the shop, and also some of the Stork being demolished are somewhere on the site.
 
I found these recently. The photographs of the last two sadly are not dated, I'm sure it's the Dog and Duck in High Street, Aston (near to The House that Jack Built) as the architecture appears to be the same.

Late 1960s / early 1970s

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Date unknown note the tiled frontage and the single window are not the same as the photograph above.

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I think the tiles show a picture of the 'dog' in the pubs name.
 
The major difference seems to be the alteration to the ground floor (pub?) part of the Dog and Duck. The real character of the place was totally altered by the removal of the decorative glass and tiled murals. A sad loss in the name of progress I guess.
 
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