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A Sparks

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      A Sparks reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Brook bond tea with Appreciate Appreciate.
      In 1933, Brooke Bond introduced the concept of tea cards as a marketing strategy. Tea cards were small, illustrated cards featuring a...
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      Slightly veering off thread (sorry!) but here are some very early Ty-Phoo tea cards:-
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      This one-ton Trojan van was manufactured in the Trojan works Croydon in August 1955 for the Brooke Bond tea company
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      You may have seen this before, but it is nice....
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      Another view of the hall 1935. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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      Hall Green Hall, William A. Clark. 1935. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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      mike can you check the maps to see if the layout is the same as the one in your photo it will be on the same side as st chads school...
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      Gosh, I didn't realise they were still going!
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      thats it no new cloths for me:( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57012254
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      thank goodnes for tick Our corner shop always gave you tick. If my mom sent me for something I had to take the little book and he used...
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      Sarehole Mill, P.W. Robinson. 1933. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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      Advert from 1944 for "Studette Handicrafts" of Kent Street, Birmingham 5, who made a range of "solid" model aircraft. They would have...
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      I remember walking over these (especially in Corporation St where there was one in the pavement outside a bar.) as a very young child...
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      Thank you so much for the posts above. I have been ill so haven't logged in for a very long time. I am really glad to see the pictures...
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