Bryn Meurig
knowlegable brummie
[QUOTE=the greengrocers (was that Tibbetts?)
No, it wasn't "Tibbetts" - they were much further down, on the opposite side, on the opposite corner of Louisa Road to "The Barrell" pub. My parents were great friends of Gertie (who ran the fruit stall) and Ted (who did the fish) Tibbetts. Another Tibbetts brother ran the veg.stall, and another, the meat, in the butchers shop next door.
Moving towards the city centre, I remember "The Barrell" (many evenings spent waiting in the front or back porch - I can still remember being bored and cold - waiting for my Dad to bring me out a lemonade and bag of crisps!).
Next to "The Barrell" was a cheap ("seconds") shoe shop, then a little market, then the "West Bromich Building Society", and then the newsagents/tobbaconist's shop on the corner of Ninevah Road.
No, it wasn't "Tibbetts" - they were much further down, on the opposite side, on the opposite corner of Louisa Road to "The Barrell" pub. My parents were great friends of Gertie (who ran the fruit stall) and Ted (who did the fish) Tibbetts. Another Tibbetts brother ran the veg.stall, and another, the meat, in the butchers shop next door.
Moving towards the city centre, I remember "The Barrell" (many evenings spent waiting in the front or back porch - I can still remember being bored and cold - waiting for my Dad to bring me out a lemonade and bag of crisps!).
Next to "The Barrell" was a cheap ("seconds") shoe shop, then a little market, then the "West Bromich Building Society", and then the newsagents/tobbaconist's shop on the corner of Ninevah Road.