SueB58
master brummie
Hello
I am new here. I remember the shop as we lived 171 Soho Road, and we used collect the paraffin. Your parents used to fill up this metal container and tip it into the paraffin can. I have never forgotten them, and often talk about the store because of using paraffin and the glug,glug glug as it went into the can - fascinating for a child, and the vast products that they sold. They were lovely people... god I find this site so emotional. Have such a soft spot for the place that I walked the length of Soho Road, and went to Handsworth park on my own a couple of months ago. I felt safe as houses, and as if I had come home. I could go on forever...
I am new here. I remember the shop as we lived 171 Soho Road, and we used collect the paraffin. Your parents used to fill up this metal container and tip it into the paraffin can. I have never forgotten them, and often talk about the store because of using paraffin and the glug,glug glug as it went into the can - fascinating for a child, and the vast products that they sold. They were lovely people... god I find this site so emotional. Have such a soft spot for the place that I walked the length of Soho Road, and went to Handsworth park on my own a couple of months ago. I felt safe as houses, and as if I had come home. I could go on forever...