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Date Posted: Wed, 31 May 2006, 13:21:05
Author: Marlene Collis
Subject: Re: Re-Cambridge Road
In reply to: Gary Bush 's message, "Re: Re-Cambridge Road" on Fri, 24 Sep 2004, 13:36:28

>Mary, I told my mother and brother about your message
>and it brought back more memories for them. Being a
>"youngster!" I only remember from the 1960's, but they
>remembered you living next door to Alma and your
>mother (grandmother?)Mary Gillett - too many Mary's!
>They remembered "Chopper" and you are right it was the
>Reads next door to the Brookes. From the top of that
>yard, I think the families were;Turley, Parelli,
>Brookes, Reads, Green (parents of Mrs Read)later the
>Harrisons, Buxton - her son "Podge" and his wife
>Bertha. In the next yard there was "Ginger", Aspinall,
>Thompson and Aldgate.
>They remembered Mickie and Mazzie well - and his
>stuffed birds! My mother tells a story that during the
>Blitz on the moonlit Thursday night she went into the
>re-inforced cellar/shelter in Mickie and Mazzies with
>her mother and her sister (my Auntie)Kath, Mazzie and
>her mother. My Grandad, Willis Brookes refused to go
>in the shelter and he saw Mickie shining a torch up
>into the sky! she says that her father "played hell
>with him" as you would expect!
>She says that the house next door to Hursts? or
>Newbury's? shop (bottom of Carter Place) was flattened
>(no-one killed fortunately) and many local windows
>were blown out.
>Before Jims Chippy (somewhere I remember well) the
>shop was run by Norah and Joe. My mother remembers
>free chips being given out at the end of the war and a
>bonfire being made out of the boards on the corner of
>Cambridge Road and Gregory Road.
>Deans shop was sometimes called "Little Woolworths"
>My brother remembers Geoffrey "Whippet" Johnson living
>further up Cambridge Road.
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>>I remember the Brookes Family,and you brought back
>>many memories,we lived next door to Alma, she lived
>>"up steps" from your grand parents, that was her back
>>door, her front door was on Carter Road,bang opposite
>>where "Chopper" lived, can you remember Chopper
>>selling fish outside the Waggon up Heeley Green? If
>>you wanted to buy you had to knock on the pub window,
>>he was a real comic.His house was at the bottom of the
>>"little hill" which was Carter Place and Mrs Maltby's
>>shop was on the other corner of Carter Place were we
>>played on the railings. I thought Mr and Mrs Read
>>lived next to the Brookes house on Cambridge Road, but
>>I also think the Mountain family were related to the
>>Reads,They all were regulars at the Salvation Army.The
>>other side of you grandparents house was Mr& Mrs
>>Parelli, he was called "Mickie"? and his wife was
>>Mazzie? does anyone remember going carolling to there
>>house? when you'd sung your Carol outside, he'd ask
>>you in to sing again and when you'd sung, he'd show
>>you a stuffed singing bird in a cage and he had a wall
>>clock that he'd dressed up with a Santa's Face.Jim's
>>chippy was opposite and Deans shop was just below
I am the great grand-daughter of Emily and Fred Aspinall who lived at 104/106,Cambridge Road,Heeley as I also did did as a young child until 1953.


Could you please tell me any information about the Aspinall family as I'm doing my family history research and would love to know about them as I only have a small recollection of Fred Aspinall as Emily died the year that I was born 1948.
I know the names of their children were Lily ( my grandmother),Billy,Ernest(went to South Africa),Clifford,Emmy and Amy.
Regards,
Marlene Collis.
e-mail:rog-mo@rcollis.fsnet.co.uk

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