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shoe repaireirs

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Astonian

gone but not forgotten
would anybody remember a little shoe shop repairer on the lichfield rd
it was by the gully that took you through to wainwright st aston
and along the lichfield rd from the vine pub
i beleive his name was albert lloyed it looked more like a little house converted
this would have been inthe forty.s and fiftys or even up till the sixtys
it was almost facing robinsonsons the fruiter
best wishes astonian ;;;
 
My old man took his shoes for repair somewhere around here in 1949, and then forgot all about them. He found his old ticket last week while having a clear out and decided to see if the shop was still there so he went back there yesterday and was amazed to find the shop was still there.......He asked if they still had his shoes and he said they had, but they would not be ready until a week next Monday............
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Yes I remember it, I used to pass it when I went to my friends Jill Bott who I worked with at Mavis's, she lived in Wainright st the back houses If I remember right
 
HI Patty
just come back to my old thread on this one regarding the shoe repairers
it must be t least 12 months i put this on even longer
If i am correct you are rightly speaking the shoe repairer on the lichfield rd by the gully
which will takeyou into park st and takes you down into wainwright st and it is the back houses
there fore i remember the botts and othr familys whom lived down there
as we always had gang war fare down that gully my friends and myself when we was kids
along with the sargents family of there kids
i had alot of friends with people down wainwright st and portland st and catherine st
and my aunt and cousins lived at number ten park st
but i have just read the previous thread by kevkonk whom said his father found the ticket for is shoes
from 1949 and went down last week to get them back but that shop went under the demob
at least thirty years ago so he could not be the same shop he is talking about
albert went back to liverpool in 1983 or before those years
as you may recall i have in the past mentioned the story how he shacked up with my aunt y
he was a gold digger and an alochic
my aunty was ivy jelf the only sister in he jelfs familyand the jelf brothers had a big fall out with her
and they told her about there thoughts on him she was a lonely old sole
she kept the coffee shop on the tyburn rd , never or less he milked her for much as he could
forty years he was around and finally left brum and her when she fell ill and died in 1983
i have got her will and on it she still left him a large amount of money
and sent it down to liverpool i have got is last known address as to where it was sent to and the said
amount of money she wishes for him to have
so she must have really loved him i suspect is all i can say in that light
but the jelfs brothers never spoke to her nor cross the thresh hold until she died
she died in the old general hospital and burried with her parents in st barnabus ,s erdinton
but i think kev,s got it wrong or is this a different repairers he,s thinking off
and as i have said along time ago i remember mavis shop
but any way paty ; is this the same shoe repairer on the top of the gully and afew yards from
old mrs coxs shop ?.
have a nice day patty and every body else best wishes Astonian ;;;
 
If you walked down towards the station from Mrs Cox's it was just before the Vine Pub that was on the corner, If I recall rightly it had very tall glass windows.
How's the book coming on Astonian? cant wait to have a read hurry up
 
Alan my mom used to take shoes somewhere on the Lichfield road to be repaired guess it was that one. My friend Jaqueline Jennings lived in Catherine street and I stayed there on many a Saturday night and used to be kept awake by the stamping company by their house. Funny I can remember going to the butchers with her but not the shoe repairers. Jean.
 
HI Patty
yes thats the one how you described the widow alright
the book is coming along lovely just afew more things and including albert and about the fall out of the jelfs
that albert created and we are just trying to track down albert or his family in liverpool
to establish whethether or not he his still alive as you know we are all living longer
to my knowledge there is only one jelf with emediate connection alive today
and that his george jelf in his ninetys whom used to stand for election for small heath right up until the late
for many years in years gone bye the he his the sibbling to the big george jelf
whom held high office in brum from decades and young george went to canada when young then got married and parted from the other jelfs as he told me when i met him for the very time in my life
he has got alot of political history in brum and may i add when i was at his house speaking to him
i could see my mothers feautures in him
well patty i have got to go now speak soon have a nice day best wishes Astonian ;;;
 
hI SYLV;
How are you keeping - fine i hope ?.
sylv; i was aware of it , i also have heard of the old chestnut stories
sylv; you cannot teach an old dog new tricks is that correct or not ;

hi jean . i certainly remember the old stamping and banging like thunder up and around wainwright street
and down portland street at this precise time two familys spring to mind the lee,s family
and albert goodman and his sons ne was called st and there is a rake of familys even your friends the jenning
a friend of jenning also whom lived in park rd and my grand mother came from parliment st
afew doors from john hougton and there was afew from portland street thebranstons whom had there tea shop facing buttons and a girl whom i had the hots for was the peal family and my other mate
his m,other ran the coffee shop at the top of wainwright st there was a rake of familys i knew
those were the days jean , give my regards to pete best wishes to you both , astonian ,,
 
My Godfather had an old-fashioned cobblers on Aston Lane- Harold Bradbury. His wife's name was Doris. Does anyone remember them? I spent many a happy hour playing in his shop & making things out of old bits of leather!!!!!
 
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