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Pugh Road Aston Birmingham B6 1960s

i was 6 years old living in pugh road goodtimes u could leave your back door unlocked without worrying if your house was going to be burgled. its true
 
we had black and white photo of pugh road the 7 of us standing outside the house in a row smiling for the camera but im not sure what happened to it...... i think it was around 1967
 
I lived at 3/41 Pugh Road until I was about 5. It was a back to back house and there was a shared courtyard area where the toilets were. I seem to remember we went down a small alley into the communal area. We were in the bottom left corner with the toilet block in the middle.
I remember there were 3 or 4 steps downwards as you entered the house. A very small kitchen was on the right and there was one cold water tap there (only plumbing there was). From thw kitchen there were stairs up to 2 bedrooms.
Mynrother and I shared one and my mother the other.
I remember my mom saying that she got a carpet for our main floor (she was a nurse), within a week it was destroyed as the house flooded - bottom of a slope and built that little bit below ground level.
I remember having friends who lived across the square from us. It was so long ago but I have Aston in my head as their surname. Tracey Aston about my age. Her dad worked in a ball bearing factory.
We were moved out into a maisonette in Newtown around 1970, I dont think I met up with anyone from there again.
I just have little bits and pieces, unfortunately my mother has passed on now.
I just came online tonight to see if there might be any photos of those old back to back courtyards.
 
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