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    Prestage Ltd

    My brother, John Treadwell, was a salesman with Prestage Springfield in the 60s, so maybe before your time. He and Terry Bird always seemed to be close to the top of the sales list
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    Harborne

    Sorry, mea culpa - yes! Croftdown Road
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    Harborne

    I lived, with aunts and my paternal grandfather, at 73 Crotdown Road from 1963-69. One of my favourite memories is the pedal car races that were held annually for a time. The road is almost dead straight and is just under half a mile long. The road was close to traffic, including banning the...
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    I was super sophisticated, I drank coffee in Rackhams' Cafe but the best place was the garden on the top of Lewis's
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    The name rings a bell but in honesty, I'm not sure why. Across the road, I do remember Molly Norton who had a cosmetics shop and her brother, George, the optician above her shop. Molly had the Chanel franchise and used to take great delight in using the spray sample bottle to cover a 5 or...
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    I love the gender discrimination
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    By that time the Old Man was up in the hills of Shropshire, close to the Welsh border, the closest neighbour was half a mile away, a touch different from city life. I went to live in Harborne with aunts until I bought a semi in Wylde Green in 1969 and was finally exiled to North Wales in '78
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    In those days even the small stores of Boots did more than dispense pre-packaged stuff. For instance, they would mix coal-tar with shampoo instead of having to pay through the nose for proprietary stuff and we used to buy a liquid soap called Sulphestol for washing up (I think it was a gallon...
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    My memory is a little hazy but we left in (I think) the Spring of '63 - I went to live with family on Croftdown Road, Harborne - the Old MAn went to live in a huge old vicarage in the wilds of west Shropshire
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    No, Lyn. Tesco built their first (I think) Birmingham store there, now Peacocks.
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    The car on the drive looks like the rear end of my father's Ford Consul, which would make this photo from about 1956. The house, at the Six Ways end of Erdington High Street, was our family home and also housed my father, Dr. Frank Treadwell's surgery. There's a tad more traffic now.
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    The Alley Boutique

    Thanks, pjmburns, my error, but I would just add that my favourite shop in Brum was Vincent's in Needless followed closely by Hudson's Bookshop
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    The Alley Boutique

    Could it possibly be the bottom of Needless Alley, the home of Vincent's Record Shop
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    Masons pop factory Smethwick

    In the 1960s I worked for Wm S Pearsall FCI, accountants on Bearwood Road. One of my jobs was the audit and accounts preparation for Masons. The one person who stands out in my memory was Jim Mason, who drove an E-Type Jag.
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    Treadwell's Shoe Repairs Ryland Street

    I've only just seen this, so sorry for the late reply. My grandfather was Harry Treadwell. I'm not sure when he retired but he died in the 1970s. He was at sometime, the Master Cordwainer and for a very long time the chairman of the (I'm not sure of the exact title) boot and shoe wages council...
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