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... no spitting signs and match strikers on the backs of bus seats, ash trays near the windows in railway carriages,
 
When I was back in Brum in the late 50's a friend of mine at the top of Kingstanding had a tramcar body in his back garden as a greenhouse, it was quite funny to be amongst his tomatoes with all those signs you mention 'No smoking in the lower saloon' 'Do not alight while the tram is moving' 'No spitting' etc. E.
 
Halt signs at Crossroads, Picture House Posters outside shops
8)
 
And the Print your own labels machines on New Street Station and probably at other places. When I first had a penny to spare in the early 1950s I could emboss a thin strip of zinc with no less than 22 letters, rather like the plastic DYMO machines later, except that the ends of your strip were punched and shaped for fixing. By the time I left Brum, in 1959. I think you could only get 15 letters for your penny.
Peter
 
It had to be removed because it only spoke English and it has to be multi-lingual ;)
 
the man that sold hot potatoes at the top of stephenson place, lovely when you came out of the pub on a cold saturday night!
 
Lynn I mentioned about the potatoe cart outside the Midland Hotel was that Stephensons Place? ???It was near the New St Station
IT WAS
 
What ever happened to the unexploded German bomb that stood on show in the old Market Hall?
 
Didnt they put wheels on it and sell it to Dave Brick, he reckons his Yaris goes like a bomb ::)
 
AYE, I've just got back from Birmingham on sea again and I've bin readin wat yow lot ave bin sayin about me, It just bloomin goos to show ow yow end up torkin when yow ave spent a fuow days in Bermingum.
 
DAVE BRICK said:
AYE, I've just got back from Birmingham on sea again and I've bin readin wat yow lot ave bin sayin about me, It just bloomin goos to show ow yow end up torkin when yow ave spent a fuow days in Bermingum.
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CAN'T YOU SPELL DAVE
 
lynn winterton said:
the man that sold hot potatoes at the top of stephenson place, lovely when you came out of the pub on a cold saturday night!
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oohh yeh...my dad used to buy some when we went up town and it was cold...
didn't the man used to sell hot roasted chestnuts as well?
My dad loved 'em and I hated them, but love them now.
My dad used to work for 'Ted's Hot Dogs' on a barrow in town some nights, as his wages for lorry driving weren't very much.
 
:-[
THE GPO. AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT WHEN TELECOMMUNICATIONS WAS SEPARATED FROM MAIL THE ONE BILLION POUND DEBT WAS ABOLISHED AT THE STROKE OF A PEN. JUST LIKE BURSTING A BALLOON INTO A BONFIRE.
IT IS A CURIOUS PHENOMENON THAT OF RECENT DECADES IN BRITAIN ANYTHING THAT WORKS WELL IS SABOTAGED.
THIS IS OF COURSE MORBID PATHOLOGY WRIT LARGE. ERSATZ EXERCISES IN POSTURING REORGANIZING WINDOW DRESSINGS AND CRACKPOTOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVE BAMBOOZLEMENTS LAYING ASSORTED FALSE TRAILS INHABITED BY RED HERRINGS IS AN ONGOING NIAGARA FALLS OF PSYCHIC IMPLOSION MANIPULATION.
NOW THE NHS.
THERE WERE 144 PROVISION IN THE NHS ACT AND ONLY THREE WERE EVER PROPERLY IMPLIMENTED.

IF YOU NEED A SALUTORY BREAK FROM KELLYS, LOOK UP THE ACT.

IF YOU WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAIR THEN ASSUREDLY YER BROW WILL BE MOIST.
 
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