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Cut-price Cigarettes - Mr Value / Supercigs
Hi Dazzhill, I was retail operations manager with Buywise from 1987 till they were taken over by T&S. I stayed at Brownhillls for 6 months but was made redundant. I remember Ray Ridgeley and his son Ian and daughter Niki, Doug Flello the buyer, Andrew Salter the accountant. You might remember... -
Harborne
I bought a car from Quality Autos in 1969 .... here's the bill.- ziksby
- Post #311
- Forum: Neighbours & Streets
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Quality Autos (B'ham) Harborne Lane, Selly Oak
Anyone remember this used car lot. They sold sports cars and American models. In 1969 I traded in my Triumph Vitesse convertible for a Sunbeam Harrington. This was an Alpine Le Mans with a Harrington body. The reg. no. was 692 DLO and by chance last year I Googled this number and found that it... -
ENT Hospital, Edmund Street.
Doing a free search for my grandfather on the 1911 census I found him in an 'Institution' in Birmingham. Prison? Workhouse? Anxious to find out, I bought some credits and paid for the transcription (cheapest option). He was listed as a patient at 109 Edmund Street. I then Googled this address to... -
More about Woolworths
Thanks for that Bugle reference ... I don't always see it. Woolies in Park Street Walsall .... I was Deputy Manager there in 1968. -
Cut-price Cigarettes - Mr Value / Supercigs
The owner of Buy-Wise was Ray Ridgely, but to the best of my knowledge their offices were always in Bromford Road, West Bromwich. Ray sold the business in 1987 to T & S Stores (Supercigs) which was run by Kevin Threlfall from their H.O. in Brownhills. -
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Cut-price Cigarettes - Mr Value / Supercigs
The shop interiors were rather sparse ... this was retailing in its basic form. Just a notch above diy shelving - crisps on the bottom shelf straight out of the box - hand written price tickets. But cheap ... cheap sweets, cheap fags, cheap cards. -
Cut-price Cigarettes - Mr Value / Supercigs
Photos attached are of Piccadilly Arcade and Northfield together with 2 other unknown suburban locations. -
Cut-price Cigarettes - Mr Value / Supercigs
Another company I worked for in the mid-80s was Buy-Wise, a CTN operation with 90 branches in the Midlands/South Wales. They traded under several names, the most notable being 'Mr Value' and 'Mainly Cards'. There were shops in most Birmingham suburbs and in the city centre. This is not a... -
More about Woolworths
Richie, You mentioned the 'gold lettering'. When I was deputy manager in Walsall during the late 60s we had the store repainted. I remember Head office sending the gold leaf for regilding the fascia letters. The sheets came registered delivery and had to be kept in the safe until the contractor... -
More about Woolworths
OOPS!!! Somebody help me please ... this was a copy/paste URL from flickr. What went wrong? -
More about Woolworths
Richie, Here's a link to a scan from the New Bond (FWW house journal) about the opening of Sheldon in 1969 after modernisation and extension. sheldon on Flickr - Photo... -
ZODIAC TOYS in Chelmsley Wood
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ZODIAC TOYS in Chelmsley Wood
Anyone remember this toyshop? It was one of the first shops to open on the Chelmsley Wood shopping centre in the early 1970s. It was managed by Audrey Dee from its first day until the chain folded in 1989. I was an area manager for Zodiac, later operations director for 85 UK branches. We... -
More about Woolworths
Hi Richie, I'm always interested in looking at photos, postcards of Woolworth, so great if you can provide a few links. I had quite a collection of Woolworth ephemera some of which I sold on eBay but some I still have like the house magazines (The New Bond) from the 60s. I'll scan some of the... -
Witton Cemetery
My son and I were there today and found the grave we were looking for in less than 2 minutes thanks to the very helpful lady on duty. We had the burial reference from B'ham Library and she came back in less than a minute with the plot number and marked it on a map telling us where to drive to...- ziksby
- Post #56
- Forum: Birmingham Cemeteries
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More about Woolworths
When I started as a trainee with Woolworths in Bromsgrove in 1961 I was a stockroom boy. Once a week I had to oil the wooden floor. There was a drum of oil kept in the stockroom and it was applied to the floorboards with a brush. Then it was covered in feldspar which soaked up the excess and... -
More about Woolworths
All I can tell you is that the address was 85 Aston Road North, a very old store probably opened in the 1920s. Great to see a few ex FWW employees on this forum. -
More about Woolworths
I was a Woolworth manager in the late 1960s (Dudley Road, Winson Green for my sins) .... More villains in my store than in the prison. I was once mugged taking change to the bank, but fought them off. They fled empty-handed. Anyway for interest, here is a mid 1960s list of Birmingham stores...
