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    Saltley & Alum Rock

    Hi Bobbygee The picture of your family's shoe repairers/timber yard was very good. Thanks for posting it on the forum. I went to Nansen Road Girls School and left in 1959. I remember a girl in my class (alas I cannot remember her name) but I am sure she lived in a shoe repairers around...
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    Post Office Factory. Fordrough Lane

    Dear Ernie My father was the Thomas Bingham you mentioned. He worked all his working life for the Post Office at both Fordrough Lane and Garrison Lane. During the war he worked for the Post Office in London. I cannot remember exactly when he retired, he took early retirement when he was...
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    Post Office Factory. Fordrough Lane

    My father, Tom Bingham, worked there all his working life until he retired in about 1980. He worked at Fordrough Lane I think most of the time, but did have to go to Garrison Lane sometimes. During the war he worked somewhere in London for the Post Office as he was never called up. He started...
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    Alum Rock Road Shops

    Another girl from Nansen Road also had a mother who worked at Braggs, the girl was called Jean Harris and lived in Highfield Road at the top near Alum Rock Road. Jean was a bit older than I was, perhaps you remember her. I think Jean was a year older than I was so probably left Nansen in 1958.
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    Alum Rock Road Shops

    Hi janet, this is Christine. I used to work at May Mitchells as a Saturday girl for about a year from 1958-summer 1959 when I left school. Aslo, I remember Braggs bakery and my mother also worked there. She worked there on and off for years and I think she worked in various departments. At...
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