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Oh God, No! Remember This...

Barr_Beacon

Barr_Beacon

The Prodigal Brummie
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The Rotunda Subway...
...The things I did to get my Two Tones and Staypressed from Nelson House.
 
The escalator that rarely worked!!
(I think it's mentioned elsewhere on the Forum).
There was a shoe shop just to the bottom left of the photo, I knew the lady who worked there, people were always stealing odd shoes!!
rosie.
 
That's the Bull Ring of my teens! Many happy Saturday afternoons spent there.

Yet, strangely I do like the new Bull Ring, think its a really nice place to shop
 
Brummygirl66 said:
That's the Bull Ring of my teens! Many happy Saturday afternoons spent there.

Yet, strangely I do like the new Bull Ring, think its a really nice place to shop
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from one baggies fan to another:D i also had many happy shopping hours there...great pics BB

lyn
 
Phone boxes in full use ! Who'd have imagined how mobile phones would transform our lives?

Wasn't Kelly Girl a recruitment agency ? Wouldn't be possible these days to have a female exclusive employment agency. In fact there are very few employment agencies in premises left at all, mostly now done online.

Viv
 
Vivienne14 said:
Phone boxes in full use ! Who'd have imagined how mobile phones would transform our lives?

Wasn't Kelly Girl a recruitment agency ? Wouldn't be possible these days to have a female exclusive employment agency. In fact there are very few employment agencies in premises left at all, mostly now done online.

Yes, Kelly Girl was an employment agency and I temped for them during 1990, I temped at the old General Hospital, in the oncology clinic which, actually was a good job to have. I made friends with the sister in charge of the clinic and she ground out it was my birthday and got me a card and a cream cake, which was lovely!

I also worked for them on another NHS contract at Bartholomew House on the Hagley Road, in reception as I was a receptionist/telephonist until I started to go deaf.

I think where the photo was taken, Rosie mentions a shoe shop, I think there was also a shoe repair shop, Thornton's (yum) and a big clothes shop where I brought my Harrington jacket from. Im sure there was also a KFC shop, the bank, bookies and then round the corner to the Bar St Martin, as I knew it, once of course the Mulberry Bush.

I used to walk up that way from the markets if I was popping in HMV to buy a record and catch the 82 home. So many good memories from that photo!

Viv
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