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Local advertising of yesteryear

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These are a few adverts for local shops/dealers in a copy of a Thursday 10th Dec Birmingham Mail 1936 (KING TO ABDICATE-Top Headline)

I thought others on the forum would like to see and perhaps add to
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Glarrys rings a bell with me I feel sure in the early 1950s they had a shop on the Flat in Hockley, my mother worked in Park Road and if she saw something she thought might suit me, I would meet her after school and try whatever it was on.
 
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Now I know most Small Heathens of a certain age will remember being sent here,Eh Col & Fatfingers ?
 
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