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    New unseen photos of brum

    Dad used to work for Brooks saddles. Took me in there once -happy memories.
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    The Outer Circle

    My mom and dad often used to take me on the outercircle in the 50's. I remember once there was a calypso bandplaying on the front seats upstairs who played continuously around the whole route. Another time we were joined upstairs by a gang of teddy boys with bloodstained clothes. One had a...
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    Sheldon shops

    I remember Dr Redlich, she used to put the fear of god into me as a kid. I think she was Austrian although I may be wrong. John
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    Sheldon

    Just picked up some posts about the GPO sorting office in Sheldon. My Dad was a postie in the 50's and 60's and his sorting office was at The Swan, Yardley (I think it was on the main Coventry Road). He would catch a bus from there to the start of his "walk" which stretched from The Wheatsheaf...
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