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does anyone remember raggie allens just before digbeth i think .are they still there, also the pdsa. old clothes etc. and are they still running . these are place names i remember when i was a kid .harley
Hi Winston, I think that the pdsa was either in moseley st or cheapside . Malta.raggie allens was in garrison lane.it was an old house which had an archway next to it.when you went into the office to collect your money.there were brass horse brasses and brass picture plates all across the wall. i think the pdsa had a warehouse in bradford street digbeth.which sold furniture and old beds with used mattress.complete with stains.
does anyone remember raggie allens just before digbeth i think .are they still there, also the pdsa. old clothes etc. and are they still running . these are place names i remember when i was a kid .harley
My grandma Rose Dagnan (nee Allen) took over the shop but retired to Solihull in the 1960s. I have very fond memories of 'helping' in the shop during holidays, ice buns on the counter, bundles of firewood on the shop floor, penny ice lollies and listening for the shop bell from out the back. Did the shop have a name?does anyone remember raggie allens just before digbeth i think .are they still there, also the pdsa. old clothes etc. and are they still running . these are place names i remember when i was a kid .harley
The bad feeling may have been that great grandad Allen married the housekeeper after his first wife died meaning the money and business went down a different family route. My grandma Rose Allen married a Dagnan but when widowed ran the shop in Bordesley Green Road until the 1960s.I remember Raggie Allens. It was about 200 yards from the Atlas pub, on the Doris Road side of Garrison Lane. Spent many a Saturday morning pushing an old pram full of rags and scrap bits metal from the Era to raggies.
Later, in the early 50's, I worked with old man (Thomas?)Allen's nephew Frankie Allen. He was married to a Sunday school teacher and she ran the shop next door to Bordesley Tech in Bordesley Green Road. I got the impression from Frank that there was bad feelings within the family and a split-up. Wasn't it one of the Allen's who opened the garage?
i bought 2 blue invalid cars off them and built a go cart.raggie allens was in garrison lane.it was an old house which had an archway next to it.when you went into the office to collect your money.there were brass horse brasses and brass picture plates all across the wall. i think the pdsa had a warehouse in bradford street digbeth.which sold furniture and old beds with used mattress.complete with stains.