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PattiW

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Does anyone remember a shop called Hosiery Specialists in Navigation Street during late 50s early 60s. My mother ran this shop and I remember spending many hours there when I wasn't at school for whatever reason. The old building - the Guildhall Building where it was - is still standing. If I remember rightly there was a tobacconist there and a lingerie shop and opposite there was a shop which sold toys and Hornby train sets etc. Just aling the road in what I think may have been Stephenson Street was the Queen's Hotel - big imposing building as I remember it but the outside was completely black presumably from the pollution from New Street Station. Does anyone recall any of these shops?
 
I don't remember your mother's shop, but I do remember the toy shop, I always stopped to look in there when we were on our way to catch the tram to the Lickeys in Navigation Street, by any chance do you recall its name?
 
sylviasayers said:
I don't remember your mother's shop, but I do remember the toy shop, I always stopped to look in there when we were on our way to catch the tram to the Lickeys in Navigation Street, by any chance do you recall its name?
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I can't help with a name, but this may be a photo of the shop.

Phil

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Thanks for that photo PMC it really brings back happy memories, they always had a marvellous window display in the late 40s/early 50s when it was hard to get toys.
 
What a lovely old photo. I may be able to find out the name of the shop as my friend's mother used to work there.

Thanks
 
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