With its Shops and Cottages, all in a row,

The lovely old Church with the school beyond

And close by was a Farmhouse with ducks on the pond.

We had a little Station, I remember the smoke

When the train 'puffed in' to collect the folk.

But all these memories are now far away

They all belong to yesterday.

Today my world is a different place

Man has made progress and altered its face.

Our little village has grown into a Town

Shops, Station, Cottages have all been knocked down

But there's a few of us left who keep a place in our hearts

We remember the Meadows, the morning dew

And those leafy woods where the bluebells grew.

Mrs A.M.Miller (an Aldridge resident for eighty years and now residing near her daughter, son in law and Grandchildren at Poole in Dorset)