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My mother had a cafe at the corner of Dawlish Road and Exeter Road Selly Oak in the 1940's and made about 500 faggots each week. On a Thursday evening I, as a boy of about 10 years of age, would turn the handle of the largest meat mincer I had ever seen. The minced meat, mixed with other...

There was a company named C.C.Barrows and they had shops in Auchinleck Square and in the Harbourne High Street. Barrows Stores aquired their business in the late 50's but I am not sure whether they ever change the name above the shops.

I am one of the old school. Not only should we have kept the name The Bull Ring but we should have kept it as it was and built the newly developing city around it . Today it would be a visitors attraction with its cobbled street running steeply down hill from New Street to the church. The many...

Hi ejofthweb, I knew your father very well. When I joined the company in 1950 as a trainee stores assistant your grandfather, Richard was MD. The first time I saw the top man was in 1951 when the company hired a complete train to take all the employees on a Sunday outing to London for the...

Hi All, There are several bits and pieces that contributors to this post have picked up about Barrows but I think I can bring some of them together having worked there from 1950 to 1960 and was Assistant Office Manager when I left. Barrows who were cousins to the Cadburys took over the business...

Hi there, I started work at Barrows straight from school in 1950 as a stores trainee and left in 1960 as assistant office manager. At my age I am not very good at names but might remember your mom from the department she worked in. See if she remembers me, name of Derek Thanks