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    Cycle Shop On The 'flat' Hockley Birmingham

    Thank you all, it was my Dad who bought a bike 'on credit' from the bike store on 'the flat' (only two years after his own dad returned from being a prisoner of war in WWII). My Dad was only 14 years old at the time (1947 ish) and found work in the Jewellery quarter after school in order to pay...
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    Cycle Shop On The 'flat' Hockley Birmingham

    Does anyone know of the name or have photos of the shop that sold bicycles on the Flat Hockley, 1940s 1950s?
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    sayings

    I think your definition of 'in my oil tot' was what I thoúght to be so too, thanks
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    sayings

    Re: 'he has only got 2 hairs and a nit'....no I don't recall this....but I think it should be re-instated, as it made me smile ;-)
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    sayings

    My Great grandfather who lived in Smith Street Birmingham, wrote to his daughter who was away convalescing in the countryside 'What Ho fora country life’ and to be a farmers Boy. I would be in my oil tot’ 'I would be as happy as a pig in muck. Isn’t it nice to be in nice country lanes,all on...
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