Do you come from Aston?

[wally58]

My wife lived at 208 Park Road, 1963 to 71
 

[Louzie0]

No.

Big family associations with Alum Rock, Stetchford and The Rosary, Saltley, though.

My father told me that, as a Small Heathen, he went to the Villa and the other place every Saturday in the 1930s.  It was what they did to watch football, back then.

He was a Villa fan, though, which is why I'm on here instead of haunting the other lot. 

Sorry.

[b23]

No.

Yorkshire.

[curiousorange]

I'm from Aldridge. My mum went to Holte Grammar though.

[b23]

No. Yorkshire.

[North Birmingham AVFC]

Great thread folks. I would like to hear of the close association of Gec, Dana. Righton and Kynoch workers with the Villa I guess they used to booze at lunch time around Witton, as it was part of what the working man did.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

No, but I was born on the Outer Circle route on the way to the ground (at what was Lordswood Maternity Hospital in Harborne).

Will that do?

 

[144 Hard Boiled Eggs]

Grandparents,parents and older brother and sister born and lived right by Villa Park until late the 50's. My mom remembered the players coming down to my grandad's allotment to buy vegetables in the years after the war (cue amusing images of Messrs Grealish and McGinn popping down after the match for a few carrots and leeks!)

[Exeter 77]

My great granddad lived in Lozells in the late 19th century and passed the Villa gene through his family to my granddad, my dad (who drove the supporters coaches, as week as the team on occasions, in the 1970s and who grew up in Sutton) and finally to me (from South Birmingham). I have successfully managed to brainwash almost all of the next generation even those from my mum's (stripey) side of the family. This however started with my cousin from birth - he's three and a half years younger than me - much to the disappointment of my Albion supporting uncle.

[usav]

Solihull.  My Mom's family are all Smethwick and Dad's were London transplants to Edgbaston.

[SteveN]

Dad's family Erdington, mom's family Lozells.  However they married at SS Peter & Paul Church Aston.