Preedys in Harborne

[pam m]

Hi, i remeber the Preedys in Harborne High Street, it was in the what is now the W.H Smiths building, Boots the chemist was next door and a few doors away was Halfords, before that the orignal Preedys was over the road for a number of years the shop was very small , does anyone else remeber this??

 

[Aidan]

I remember Preedys when it was where whs is now. Do you remember Prana's I think there is a H&B there now!. There is a general Harborne thread at https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=29580 which may be interest

 

[Larry Barker]

Hi, i remeber the Preedys in Harborne High Street, it was in the what is now the W.H Smiths building, Boots the chemist was next door and a few doors away was Halfords, before that the orignal Preedys was over the road for a number of years the shop was very small , does anyone else remeber this??

I was Manager at old shop,happy days !!

 

[oldjoe]

Not the Harborne one,but my mum worked at the one in Station St for a while,in the lat 60's/early 70's.

 

[pam m]

Larry was you still manager when the shop moved over the road?

 

[Graham2]

does anyone remember Preedys head office in High st Dudley opposite the "Three Crowns", or how abour anyone that worked there, I remember a few , Ray Smith , Fred Rollason, Stan Hughes, terry Knott, Stan ? ( Ben) in dispatch , Alf Weekes Big beryl in the fancy goods dept.

Anybody out there?????