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cookie273uk
master brummie
Re post 30, is that 2nd pic Grovener Rd (which runs paralell to Lovers Walk)??, my late Dad's local the Groverner Arms was there, you could also access it from Lovers Walk, in the 50s it was run by Jimmy Leach a Scotsman and ex-Villa player. Eric
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dennis1941
Guest
lovers walk is still there so is aston station does anyone remember george hadland ray mcdonnel louis hughes or denis jones or know where they are now re dennis hillier.
christopher short
Birmingham Post
I'm pleased I started this subject. It was Lovers' Walk alongside the railway line, not Lovers' Lane . To get to Deykin Avenue School from there, one would have to walk the whole length of Electric Avenue over the Tame Bridge, fork right where Tame Road joined Electric Avenue. The whole length on the RHD side was taken up by the GEC on the LHS side there is Dulverton Road, Westwood Road, Brantley Road and then Deykin Avenue School on the next corner where Electric Avenue became Wyrley Road. As far as I recall, about a 15 minute walk.
Thanks for all the input and the great photographs, it's fascinating, but................ is Lovers' Walk still there or not ?
Thanks for all the input and the great photographs, it's fascinating, but................ is Lovers' Walk still there or not ?
Alf
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
It was along side the Aston station see if you can make anything out from this you might have to click on the satellite
https://www.yell.com/map/b6.html?sem=g&cam=g_t&refcd=GO480T104453244s&tsacr=GO5307189298
https://www.yell.com/map/b6.html?sem=g&cam=g_t&refcd=GO480T104453244s&tsacr=GO5307189298
Ray Griffiths
master brummie
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I beleive this what you are looking Lovers Walk next to Aston StationView attachment 56596
Ray
I beleive this what you are looking Lovers Walk next to Aston StationView attachment 56596
Ray
Ray Griffiths
master brummie
christopher short
Birmingham Post
Ray,
Very many thanks - that sure evoked a memory or two.
Except that the trains wern't electric when I last walked down there. The old green diesel rattlers as I recall.
Very many thanks - that sure evoked a memory or two.
Except that the trains wern't electric when I last walked down there. The old green diesel rattlers as I recall.
irene floyd
master brummie
Hi Jean.My friend used to live in Lovers Walk,Dorothy Lavill is her relative.Do you know a VERA LAVILL and BILLY LAVILL.
George1468
master brummie
Hi Sylvia, Re item 13. I could have made it clearer. Not your fault. Sorry for late reply, I have been away and just catching up. I seem to know your name. I lived in Brantley Road Number 68. left in 1953 to join the army. Regards George.
sylviasayers
master brummie
Hi George, don't know your surname so can't say whether I know you, but Sayers is my married name and the Sayers family lived in Queens Road, so maybe you knew some of the family.
Ray Griffiths
master brummie
View attachment 69822the bottom of queens rd, lovers walk is behind us. a mr & mrs cole lived in the house pictured.
Lover's Walk is still there but alas no housing, when young i used to train spot by the signal box facing my mate's house his name was george winters, as i grew older i used to walk my girlfriends down lover's lane for a smooch, now i wouldn't go down for love or money late at night
hi there
yes it was next to and along the side of aston station and i lived along the lichfiel rd about a mile along the lichfield rd heading towards aston cross an thompson the butchers and my grand father ernie jelf ran the coffee house just yards past the vine pub ; which is still standing there ; and after the cornation st party which he organised and provided the tables and some chairs and foods stuff for all the familys in terrace of cromwell terrace after the time thekids finished a selected members of the party and the people whomorgased the party was the sheldons . craddocks ; seabourne and the sharps family all those grown ups was invited to there own party along the rd for there party at jelfs cofffee shop which
was a large coffee shop with a two tear flooring and held a two billard tables and we all shouted a hippy ;hip array
for the queen and they was drinking wine us kidsdrank the pop a day to remember
lovers walk which ran along side the houses of lovers walk was towering up above was the railwaway station platforms
and it over looked the houses from the platform you could look down on the house from up above the station
and when walking along lovers walk you could see these great steam enginesand carriges standin up above you
at the platorm and the steam belowing down upon you espeacial when the tran was pulling out of the station
big black dirty and white smoke would come down and bellow all over you and before going to school in the morning at the crack of dawn i used to help the post man by pushing is bike and delivering the letters through the doors
from 5/ 92lichfield rd is where i lived down to lovers walk and he would say okay back home and get to school son
the post came through cheston rd sorting office and my uncle was the post master general in charge of the sorting off ice
at that time forties and fifties until he died inthe fifties but yes that was good old lovers walk where i sopent alot of childhood days with friends down there with a kid whom was my best friend colin gaskin ;
i do not know whether he dead or alive but i would like to catch up with him today if it was possible andremissof our good old days along with the other big famiy the sargents of lichfield rd
i had to walk from aston station lovers walk one sunday afternoon after catching a train to sutton park spent the day there
i got stuck in a swamp in the wild groth area and was sinking and colin struggled to pull me out eventualy with a struggle he didbut one of my brand new sandlesfell off and sank in the swamp i had to walk back to sutton station with one shoe on and one missing one walked up the lichfield rd back to our house at 5/92 mom was in hospital
and expecting another child ;i was met by tmy dad sitting there as i walkedin he notice i was dirty and my brand new sandle missing he asked where are the shoes i bought you yesterday alan he said i told him and he went barmy
he gave me a clip round my ear hole and sent me to bedwith noe tea
so yes i do remember lovers walk ; alan; astonian
yes it was next to and along the side of aston station and i lived along the lichfiel rd about a mile along the lichfield rd heading towards aston cross an thompson the butchers and my grand father ernie jelf ran the coffee house just yards past the vine pub ; which is still standing there ; and after the cornation st party which he organised and provided the tables and some chairs and foods stuff for all the familys in terrace of cromwell terrace after the time thekids finished a selected members of the party and the people whomorgased the party was the sheldons . craddocks ; seabourne and the sharps family all those grown ups was invited to there own party along the rd for there party at jelfs cofffee shop which
was a large coffee shop with a two tear flooring and held a two billard tables and we all shouted a hippy ;hip array
for the queen and they was drinking wine us kidsdrank the pop a day to remember
lovers walk which ran along side the houses of lovers walk was towering up above was the railwaway station platforms
and it over looked the houses from the platform you could look down on the house from up above the station
and when walking along lovers walk you could see these great steam enginesand carriges standin up above you
at the platorm and the steam belowing down upon you espeacial when the tran was pulling out of the station
big black dirty and white smoke would come down and bellow all over you and before going to school in the morning at the crack of dawn i used to help the post man by pushing is bike and delivering the letters through the doors
from 5/ 92lichfield rd is where i lived down to lovers walk and he would say okay back home and get to school son
the post came through cheston rd sorting office and my uncle was the post master general in charge of the sorting off ice
at that time forties and fifties until he died inthe fifties but yes that was good old lovers walk where i sopent alot of childhood days with friends down there with a kid whom was my best friend colin gaskin ;
i do not know whether he dead or alive but i would like to catch up with him today if it was possible andremissof our good old days along with the other big famiy the sargents of lichfield rd
i had to walk from aston station lovers walk one sunday afternoon after catching a train to sutton park spent the day there
i got stuck in a swamp in the wild groth area and was sinking and colin struggled to pull me out eventualy with a struggle he didbut one of my brand new sandlesfell off and sank in the swamp i had to walk back to sutton station with one shoe on and one missing one walked up the lichfield rd back to our house at 5/92 mom was in hospital
and expecting another child ;i was met by tmy dad sitting there as i walkedin he notice i was dirty and my brand new sandle missing he asked where are the shoes i bought you yesterday alan he said i told him and he went barmy
he gave me a clip round my ear hole and sent me to bedwith noe tea
so yes i do remember lovers walk ; alan; astonian
I lived in church lane around the 1960 - 1969 mark, I remember Lichfield Rd with fondness, does anyone remember Taylors toy shop, my Father always gave us half a crown pocket money and I would leg it up there and buy some airfix soldiers or matchbox cars it was like walking into wonderland. across the road down slightly towards the cafe on the corner was a newsagent who sold american cigarettes
lucky strike, camel etc, my Father got a taste for them while p.o.w in a american dominated camp, and he would send me up to get some every day, I was around 10 !!! no one cared in those days about age. i remember Thompsons Butchers, people came from miles around just for their pies, there was about 7 pubs on the stretch of Lichfield rd Alone.
lucky strike, camel etc, my Father got a taste for them while p.o.w in a american dominated camp, and he would send me up to get some every day, I was around 10 !!! no one cared in those days about age. i remember Thompsons Butchers, people came from miles around just for their pies, there was about 7 pubs on the stretch of Lichfield rd Alone.
HI LYNN
I look fore ward to seeing your pics of the are great memoirs
and dale i used to live next door to old thompsons there was always packed in there and it was a huge shop ;
when i was a little nipper i used to come down the terrace where i lived as our living room backed on to there slaughter section and we could hear the pigs screaming it was a night mare
but i was a little nipper aged from 6 i was always sitting on the pavent out side there entrance waiting for the pig deliver and watching all day [ and i mean all day watching there pork pies going up and down on there lift through the ceiling to there stock room and coming down for the shop
i got to know all the members of the staff at that age peter thompson especialy
and one year when i was about 8 they broke up for holidays some of the slaughter men and one named alan when i asked him where was he going home on a friday nighthe said i am going home and i am going on holiday
and i am going to the sea side he said do you want to come ;i said yes ; and he said go and asked your mom first then;
i got up and ran to the house to asked mom if i could go she said do not be silly you cannot go with him and he i playingyou up and jokiong
but at that as kidsyou tend to beleivethings don,t you
any way i dashed back to the gate only seeing way good bye and smiling he came back later two weeks
i had not seen peter thompson for years later when i became an adult he was running a shop up erdington
after tenty years or more he remembered me as the tot whom always sat on the pavement outside those gate many years ago ; best wishes astonian ; alan ;
I look fore ward to seeing your pics of the are great memoirs
and dale i used to live next door to old thompsons there was always packed in there and it was a huge shop ;
when i was a little nipper i used to come down the terrace where i lived as our living room backed on to there slaughter section and we could hear the pigs screaming it was a night mare
but i was a little nipper aged from 6 i was always sitting on the pavent out side there entrance waiting for the pig deliver and watching all day [ and i mean all day watching there pork pies going up and down on there lift through the ceiling to there stock room and coming down for the shop
i got to know all the members of the staff at that age peter thompson especialy
and one year when i was about 8 they broke up for holidays some of the slaughter men and one named alan when i asked him where was he going home on a friday nighthe said i am going home and i am going on holiday
and i am going to the sea side he said do you want to come ;i said yes ; and he said go and asked your mom first then;
i got up and ran to the house to asked mom if i could go she said do not be silly you cannot go with him and he i playingyou up and jokiong
but at that as kidsyou tend to beleivethings don,t you
any way i dashed back to the gate only seeing way good bye and smiling he came back later two weeks
i had not seen peter thompson for years later when i became an adult he was running a shop up erdington
after tenty years or more he remembered me as the tot whom always sat on the pavement outside those gate many years ago ; best wishes astonian ; alan ;
irene floyd
master brummie
What a great pic my friend will love this has she lived in Lovers Walk i will have to show her.Does anyone remember her SUSAN BRADBURY/CLEAVER.She knew a girl named PAMELA GASKIN,i was wondering if the COLIN GASKIN mentioned above was her brother.
HI IRENE
Nice to hear from you ; it,s every chance she is colins sister which would be great to find out and may be pass a message to him ;i remember pam gaskin as a thin girl when she was young trying to think how old she was at the time
when i last seen her ; she had another sister called sandra sandra at the time was a little plump girl
; if you ever see her or know of there where abouts it would be fantasic for me to learn and make contact with him;
her moms name would be Irenee and her dad was sammy he used to be a commisioner in uniform in his
working life i thik at one time either sandra and pam or just one of them got a job at HP Sauce factory when they left school; but should you know or ever see her please ;please asked her
me and colin joined the forces together on the same day ;he was in the tank regiment like his dad was and i joined the
1st battleion of the warickshire done our exams together and passed that was the last time i seen him at whittingtom barracks if i am right and she is colins sister i hope colinis still living today ;
it seems in my life most of my great friends have all died on me; being by death;
and not deserting me one committed sucide others by cancer and and the other through variuos decead
the other stabbed or shot ;dead so it would be great to har from him we was great friends and grew up together
in the terrace where she was born
i look foreward to hearing from you ; have your self a nice day , best wishes Alan , Astonian
Nice to hear from you ; it,s every chance she is colins sister which would be great to find out and may be pass a message to him ;i remember pam gaskin as a thin girl when she was young trying to think how old she was at the time
when i last seen her ; she had another sister called sandra sandra at the time was a little plump girl
; if you ever see her or know of there where abouts it would be fantasic for me to learn and make contact with him;
her moms name would be Irenee and her dad was sammy he used to be a commisioner in uniform in his
working life i thik at one time either sandra and pam or just one of them got a job at HP Sauce factory when they left school; but should you know or ever see her please ;please asked her
me and colin joined the forces together on the same day ;he was in the tank regiment like his dad was and i joined the
1st battleion of the warickshire done our exams together and passed that was the last time i seen him at whittingtom barracks if i am right and she is colins sister i hope colinis still living today ;
it seems in my life most of my great friends have all died on me; being by death;
and not deserting me one committed sucide others by cancer and and the other through variuos decead
the other stabbed or shot ;dead so it would be great to har from him we was great friends and grew up together
in the terrace where she was born
i look foreward to hearing from you ; have your self a nice day , best wishes Alan , Astonian
David Weaver
gone but not forgotten
Ah Astonian, I can smell the smoke from here, well done old fella would bring a homesick tear to a glass eye. They reckon 95% of the Aston population started off in 'Lover's Walk' but I doubt it very much, no more than 80% I'd reckon. Regards, David.
HI DAVID
Hope you are well and enjoying life to the full even thou the state of the country is abit depressin
i had to laugh when you said the bit about the glass eye i reckon it could have with the volume of steam and smoke bellowing downon you as you walked along the walk after all a good engine or a bad engine stoker could have
created for that to happend to you ;
as it did linure for a while as you was walking wih a girl or just two pals larking around
if you remember it was lined with with rail way sleepers which banked the soil and the tracks which the train lines was built on was so high up you looked at the train. that embankment must have been a forty foot high
and when you lookked up at the train the wheels looked masive
any way dave you could not miss the old trains and the smoke ;and that whistle the fireman or the driver used to blast
as you walk along the walk yes i to can get the feel of going back in time now and seeing and smelling the old some time black or grey smoke good old engines i say you could not fault them ; now its every day these diesel engines
pack up and never turn up and break down and go missing with the old steamemesthey was always on time ;
speaking of time i must steam off now i have a hospital apointment at the worc royal;
so i will shoot off now have a nice day dave best wishes your old friend alan ; astonian
Hope you are well and enjoying life to the full even thou the state of the country is abit depressin
i had to laugh when you said the bit about the glass eye i reckon it could have with the volume of steam and smoke bellowing downon you as you walked along the walk after all a good engine or a bad engine stoker could have
created for that to happend to you ;
as it did linure for a while as you was walking wih a girl or just two pals larking around
if you remember it was lined with with rail way sleepers which banked the soil and the tracks which the train lines was built on was so high up you looked at the train. that embankment must have been a forty foot high
and when you lookked up at the train the wheels looked masive
any way dave you could not miss the old trains and the smoke ;and that whistle the fireman or the driver used to blast
as you walk along the walk yes i to can get the feel of going back in time now and seeing and smelling the old some time black or grey smoke good old engines i say you could not fault them ; now its every day these diesel engines
pack up and never turn up and break down and go missing with the old steamemesthey was always on time ;
speaking of time i must steam off now i have a hospital apointment at the worc royal;
so i will shoot off now have a nice day dave best wishes your old friend alan ; astonian