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Acocks Green

In the centre opposite the pub. In the block of shops next to where Burtons was. Fred's Cafe was 13 Shirley Road.
Frequented by pupils from Archbishop Ilsley School which backed on to it.
Shaw amusements now occupy the premises.
 
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CHILDREN OF ACOCKS GREEN - BIRMINGHAM (1969
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pjmburns said:
In the centre opposite the pub. In the block of shops next to where Burtons was. Fred's Cafe was 13 Shirley Road.
Frequented by pupils from Archbishop Ilsley School which backed on to it.
Shaw amusements now occupy the premises.
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pjmburns said:
In the centre opposite the pub. In the block of shops next to where Burtons was. Fred's Cafe was 13 Shirley Road.
Frequented by pupils from Archbishop Ilsley School which backed on to it.
Shaw amusements now occupy the premises.
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and i used it
 
Fred's Cafe


This popular cafe on the Green was started by Fred Cowan Senior around 1920. The business was continued by his son, also Fred, from 1938, when his father died. Fred Senior also ran a football team, the Avondale Football Club, which played on fields behind the shop now occupied by Archbishop Ilsley Technology College. Bus staff were constant users of the cafe, filling their billy cans with tea. The business lasted until 1977, when an amusement arcade took over the shop and Pearce's next door.
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