Hi Eric what is your surnameI would imagine a number of members on this thread would remember my Wife's Aunt Ann who ran the little shop opposite Manor Park girls school in Vicarage Rd, a few doors down from Sycamore Rd, a lot of the girls would come across the road to buy their sweets and pop. We lived up the adjoining entry (4/128). Eric
Hi Brenda Had a friend called Teddy Coates who lived in the Greengrocersl know the area real well,my g/parents lived in church lane, infact my g/father Billy Coates was born and died there, and the vine was his hang out..he passed away in 1947...l worked at John Wrights from 1950 to 1958 when l left to come to Texas..my mother lived in church Lane untill she married my dad Wilfred Barr who lived in Park Road, he also went to the boys brigade at Dyson hall also my brother was in the scouts at Dyson hall...in those days people did'nt move very far away from family as there was a lot of Coates just around there, just reading this thread has taken me back many years and it seems only like yesterday...its nice to have good memories the world always seemed a lot nicer and kinder place then....Brenda
Hi. I have only just started to use this. Im researching my grandparents Eric and Ellen Winspear. They used to run the shop you refer to. Their surname was Winspear.I can recall going to the shop at weekends when I was very young in the 50s.I used to live in Vine Terrace ,Vine Street Aston.the Harpers,Jack & Ivy
Is my mom & dads names.
i would love to hear from anyone else that lived there i cant seem to find anything to do with this street atall, i would love a photo.
We used to live there 1952 to 1962/3, up the terrace.Some names i remember are , Harris , Batty, Teal, Ward, Lakin, Chearington,Biddle,Coats who run the greengrocers, Whinspers shop on the corner & of corse Lakes Which is still there.
I would to hear of anyone else who has the same memories.
Bye for now
John Harper
Wow what a find Alice teal was my great grandmother and frankie (frannklin) was my uncle he was a bit of lad! To say the leasthi all just came accross this post.
i lived in vine street from 1966 to about 1974 mrs teale lived there then dont know if its same family,she let us use her
garden so i could have my photo taken with my new baby brother1969 she had grass in her yard so she was posh lol.she was lovely,she also had a relative by the name of frankie but didnt think much of him.
Hi There IHC ,
I Was Brought Up On Lichfield Rd Just Along From Vine Street, And My Cousins Used
To Lve At No 10 Park Street And I Can Recall Afew Of Them Family Very Vived
My Older Brother Married A Bell ,And I Married A Girl Whom Name Was Williams And She Was The Neice And Cousins To The Teals In Vine Steet And My Younger Brother
Married A Girl Arond The Corner WhomName Was Bagshaw It Was Good In Them Days
I See Now Its All Industreal Factory Units Its A PityWe Cannot Put The Clock Back
Do You Remember Dyson Hall ?> I,ll Say One Thing Our Kid Its A Very Small World .
Best Wishes Astonian ,;;;
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His name was Alan Stevens.....he lived at the top of Upper Thomas Street during the 1960's ....Hi astonian are you Charlie by any chance?
I know it's an old post but, Frankie was my uncle you were right?hi all just came accross this post.
i lived in vine street from 1966 to about 1974 mrs teale lived there then dont know if its same family,she let us use her
garden so i could have my photo taken with my new baby brother1969 she had grass in her yard so she was posh lol.she was lovely,she also had a relative by the name of frankie but didnt think much of him.
Know it's been a while since your reply about the Marsdens. I am happy That Sheila found happiness, and hopefully is still going well. So sorry to hear about Christine, always remember running to the shop for her, to buy a pack of hair lacquer.. for the beehive she always had pride in. I remember Val marrying Roger, we went to the wedding. He was in the RAF. I knew your sister Sylvia, a long time ago now.Hi jaffa123
Just picked up on your thread saying you lived at number 28 park street ,and you are a great old friend of my beloved sheila Marsden whom is intact my first cousin and her mom and dad was frank and Edith
And her mom is my dads sister we lived around the corner along on Lichfield road by Aston,s the
Cake shop and Thompsons the butchers ,her sisters are Valerie and Christine sheila was the youngest
One,her father was frank he came from Wigan and always worked hard at Ansells. Brewery
On the lorries and they was always in our house up Cromwell square with the girls
I last seen valarie quite afew years back now it was at Christine's son tony,s wedding in birmingham
Harbourne then to kings heath reception where I met val,
Sheila I last heard of is living in west Heath birmingham on my last account and she was running a pub over there
With the guy she met and married but unfortunelately it never worked out she left him
And the pub I. Think it was the dingo pub over there before it was demoed I do not know what
Happen end to him sheila met another guy that what broke the marriage up, but sadly he only
Used her and she left him but with another guy in west Heath I think he is or was a BT Telephone eng,
This is such a coincidence to day typing to you as an old friend of sheila and the girls and of course
Both parents be great friends
I say that because we are number one cousins especially Christine, Christine and myself was very close
Out of my big family eight boys two girls even when we was grown up adults today
We never lost contact with each other I went to her wedding to a tony Jones
From Catherine street but over the years after having great sons and a daughter
Tony got abusive to her and gave her a brutal life he loved his drink and he was a milk man
For midland counties dairies as it was then he left her for much younger women
He left the dairies because of his drink problem so he started up in the market trade big
Time and made it big with wealth always going for the younger model sad blighty
I am glad he did really he was using violence on her it was a good job that frank her father
Had died because frank would have sorted him out right left and centre
But today I have to say to you that my beloved cousin Christine is dying rapidinly
With cancer her weight loss is falling off quite fast she his down to five stone
She does not want anybody to see her in the state she is in she as never drunk booze or smoked
Yet she as got this dammed cancer just like her hard working husband wild he never drank nor smokes
Yet he was unwell for a week and went into hospital and died it broke her heart
Wilfbiught themselves a smashing big camper in Brian where we have a six berth van
Not far from her on the same sight and that's what she done years ago after wilfs death she left brum and moved I to the van permantly we used to see each other often but just of late no I have not seen her
I got a phone call from my younger brother whom is in brum to tell meval as phoned
To pass the message on and she will keep us up dated at every stage now
If you recall Christine always dressed up to the nines and with HDR make up on and eye shadow
And her beehive hair style she was just a look a like dusty Springfield all my life
I nicked named her dusty because of her. Looks
I think I recall your name from all those yesterday years, do you recall the bagshaws or the val Sensors
She had a brother called roger they got married but val fell for some one afterwards
And she his still with him I believe he his Alarm bell specialist
Best wishes Astonian,,,,,, Alan,,,,