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  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Donbogen's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    68/69 at a guess Long time ago but what a great decade to have grown up in
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Donbogen's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Does anyone recall the the Kids cycle track it appeared on the The Tinker & Tucker Show when it first opened complete with Zebra...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Two's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    #13 - Aston Park - Opening - 1858 Print #14 - Aston Park - Opening - 1858 Print #15 - Aston Park - Opening - 1858 Print #16 -...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Two's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    #10 - Aston Park - Gates - Parish Church in Background #11 - Aston Park - c1906 #12 - Aston Park - Barrage Balloon in March 1939
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Two's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    #6 - Aston Park and Hall - c1906 #7 - Aston Park - c1920 #8 - Aston Park Lodge - c1920 #9 - Aston Park - Pre 1918
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    Astonb6 reacted to Two's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    #1 - Aston Park - The Drive - c1906 #2 - Aston Park - The Drive - c1908 #3 - Aston Park & Hall - 19th Century Painting #4 - Aston...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I do remember this as a permanent layout for cycling. It had traffic lights and zebra crossing etc. I think you could hire a bike and...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A bicycle test in Aston Park sometime maybe early 70s
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to gingerjon's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    John is right about the park how it as changed since you last went I still pop in now and again the are still things worth going there...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Di.Poppitt's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The park was my playground as a child. there was a gang of us children of a range of ages and we played together for all of my...
  • RichSmith
    RichSmith replied to the thread HELP!!!!!!.
    how did you do that mikejee? do you have superpowers? thanks sooooo much!!!! does he have a wife?
  • mikejee
    mikejee replied to the thread HELP!!!!!!.
    The 1920 and 1922 electoral roll shows Thomas William Henry Hill at no 7 court 51, which would be back of 202.
  • RichSmith
    I'm having real problems locating an address in the 1921 census. Ive tried literally every combination and it just refuses to show...
  • D
    Dionysius//88 replied to the thread St Paul's Square Hockley.
    I used to work in George St and I walked to the Sta Paul's Tavern most days , I was shocked one day in the 70's to see the headstones...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Baldeagle's post in the thread Radar Motors Cowper Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My name is John Haines and my father Bill Haines was the owner of ~Radwar Motors Ltd. Initially, they were Birmingham's first Citroen...
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