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    Tangyes of Smethwick

    Hi Helen - not so much small as a tiny world !! - I see you were born in Halesowen - we lived in Grange Crescent for a while - 1986 for about six months - So you are in Dibden now - mail me - [email protected] and we'll discover the proximity of neighbourliness! I can remember some...
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    Tangyes of Smethwick

    Thanks Daverock - I know Sparkbrook well ! I had a small cafe there on the Stratford Road - The Sunrise - two doors away from Vince DeMatteo - the famous Barber !!
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    Tangyes of Smethwick

    Hi Helen - don't know if this will reach you. My Dad worked for Tangyes, as did his father. He would have been employed around 1913 when he was 15. ha left and went to Birmingham Non-Ferrous where he was a chargehand and met my mother , who was a core-maker for munitions. Then he got called up...
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