Are yes mike that refreshment was only open on certain Sundays and of summer days it then only seven soda pops and lemade or orange squash
And little cakes and tea or coffee and may be crisp old smiths crisps with the little blue bag in it
Right up until 1955. Period never open end again for a couple of years later when they started to open up Aston hall and it was with in the arch way between
The house at the rear and there old huge Victorian gardens they kept with wide steps with statues on a pillar at the top and half way down
A series of about five series of six steps that would bring you around and down that big hill over looking the villa ground
And you could see half the pitch and the crowd standing a cheering
And when the villa first put those first sets of floodlights they had the MEB from Chester street install them
And my oldest brother Ron was an apprentice with three older guys whom was senior people the main man of the gang was a guy called Ron
I have forgotten his surname but they was on the front page of the Birmingham event mail they had there photo taken right across the front page
Standing by those flood light they errected but getting to Aston hall we played cow boys and Indians regular at week ends all around that hall and in the snow we would go with the old man and sledge down to the bottom of that steep hill and almost through the fence luckily there was plenty of bushes in that day
Alan,,Astonian,,,