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jake
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anyone remember these in kings heath high street in the 50s/60s
chapman & saunders opposite woolworths sold dinkey toys and aircraft models (keelcraft) hornby train sets, bebbingtons a great big wooden
building sold everthing i think used to run up and down the shop as the wooden floor made a right din, then there was masons the grocers/
wrensons grocers/ tays butchers, (i worked for the tays in kings heath), then up to alcester lanes end the dog track, over the road the kings arms (fondly known as the knob and still is) but its a theme pub now, old man shetland who raced greyhounds had his kennels in dawberry fields road (known as piggy lane) due to the fact there was a pig farm at the top end,i lived in the country untill the council surrounded us with houses, great day's, the old look after each other day's have gone never to return. and they call it progress
jake
chapman & saunders opposite woolworths sold dinkey toys and aircraft models (keelcraft) hornby train sets, bebbingtons a great big wooden
building sold everthing i think used to run up and down the shop as the wooden floor made a right din, then there was masons the grocers/
wrensons grocers/ tays butchers, (i worked for the tays in kings heath), then up to alcester lanes end the dog track, over the road the kings arms (fondly known as the knob and still is) but its a theme pub now, old man shetland who raced greyhounds had his kennels in dawberry fields road (known as piggy lane) due to the fact there was a pig farm at the top end,i lived in the country untill the council surrounded us with houses, great day's, the old look after each other day's have gone never to return. and they call it progress
jake