High Street Aston

[Anthi]

I didn't realise Fawcett's were No. 10. Thank you.

 

[mw0njm.]

Hi.Please. has anyone got any pics of the shops on high st opposite side of the rd to aston brook st and Phillips st. the shop was a market hall,(a bit of a shed like building)with small stalls and a litle cafe. many thanks in advance.

 

[brummy-lad]

Hi.Please. has anyone got any pics of the shops on high st opposite side of the rd to aston brook st and Phillips st. the shop was a market hall,(a bit of a shed like building)with small stalls and a litle cafe. many thanks in advance.

Hi Pete,

Are they on here?

www.leroux.co.uk/aston

 

[Terry M]

Hi. I remember the market hall as I used to go in there with my mother in the 50's and early 60's, but I thought it was slightly farther up High St more opposite the House that Jack Built. I seem to remember a Home and Colonial grocers opposite Philips St.

 

[mw0njm.]

Hi Pete,

Are they on here?

www.leroux.co.uk/aston

no sorry

 

[mw0njm.]

Hi. I remember the market hall as I used to go in there with my mother in the 50's and early 60's, but I thought it was slightly farther up High St more opposite the House that Jack Built. I seem to remember a Home and Colonial grocers opposite Philips St.

it was at the top of aston brook st i am sure op the slaughter house

 

[brummy-lad]

no sorry

So unlucky there, the market was just to the left of Frank Steel butchers.

 

[mw0njm.]

So unlucky there, the market was just to the left of Frank Steel butchers.

thanks. just looking for a pic of Frank Steel butchers. now

 

[brummy-lad]

thanks. just looking for a pic of Frank Steel butchers. now

Here you are Pete, he's even standing by the window.

 

[mw0njm.]

Here you are Pete, he's even standing by the window.

a great help thanks

 

[brummy-lad]

Pete, this is an aerial view from 1951, it is just a fraction of a much larger image so quality is not good. The market is on there (somewhere).

 

[brummy-lad]

I think this is the best we are going to find for the time being and as you say it looks like a bit of a shed type building.

 

[Terry M]

So unlucky there, the market was just to the left of Frank Steel butchers.

When the market closed Jess Meakin moved his business to a shop at the Scott Arms in Great Barr.

 

[adap2it]

The butchers shop was the first on the right in the market. My brother worked part time for an Indian guy in the market, they called him "Momma".
Dave A

 

[Richard Dye]

I think this is the best we are going to find for the time being and as you say it looks like a bit of a shed type building.

BL, that is a great picture!

 

[mw0njm.]

The butchers shop was the first on the right in the market. My brother worked part time for an Indian guy in the market, they called him "Momma".
Dave A

do you remember the market at all? was there a cafe at the top let corner?

 

[Cookie55]

great maps...so it is high st deritend not high st aston..not heard of new england so i have learned something today..



looking at street view i think that new england or as rob said court no 31 would have been about here..all gone now..that is the rainbow pub on the opposite corner

lyn

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I didn't realise Fawcett's were No. 10. Thank you.

 

[Cookie55]

 

[adap2it]

do you remember the market at all? was there a cafe at the top let corner?

I believe there was...
Dave A

 

[adap2it]

Here is a photo that I don't believe I've seen here previously. It captures the House That Jack Built & the Aston Hippodrome in the same view.
Dave A

 

[Richard Dye]

Here is a photo that I don't believe I've seen here previously. It captures the House That Jack Built & the Aston Hippodrome in the same view.
Dave A

Great photo!

 

[Cookie55]

so opposite no 77 lynn...so near yet so far to seeing a photo of the house

lyn

 

[Cookie55]

Rear garden of 99 High street 1950s

 

[mw0njm.]

 

[Empty]

Hello. I've only just found this thread. In the early 1960s I did a Saturday job at the shop which sold baby clothes, wool and haberdashery. It was run by Miss Rose Martin and the shop may have been called Martins. I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure it was in Aston High Street. I'm sure it has long since disappeared, but I would love to see a photo of it. Best wishes

I remember going into Martins! It was a lovely old fashioned shop with those window-fronted drawers. I can remember Mum buying me a gorgeous fluffy, pale blue dressing gown there.