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    The Birmingham Tea Ceremony

    THE BIRMINGHAM TEA CEREMONIES An anthropological study Note The observations reported here were made five or six decades ago. The practises described may no longer be used. The most wide spread ceremony is conducted by someone known as Mother. Often Mother is a female, though male...
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    Joe Fox

    In the late 1940's/early 50's, going home from KEGS Camp Hill, I would catch the 15/17 bus in High St Bordesley just before it went under the railway bridge. Near the stop was a sweet shop I sometimes used. It was run by a man with a multi-lined face and built along the lines of a jockey. His...
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    Porters of Small Heath

    The Porters lived in Victorian Digbeth and then various parts of Small Heath. They arrived at 128 Bankes Road after the 1911 census but were well established by 1914 it seems. The last of their descendants that lived there, my mother, left in the mid 1980's. The photo was almost certainly taken...
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    WW2 Charity flag days

    I have no idea who collected the charity flags shown in the pictures below. Nor do I know why. They were in my mother's effects. She was born in Birmingham in 1905. The majority I have shown seem to be of the era around WW1. The flags on Sheet 1 are for local charities. Flag B may not be...
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