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    Bull Ring Centre - Potato Machine?

    Finally I have found someone who remembers this as I was starting to think I'd imagined it lol, it sounds like we're about the same age as I would have been 6 in 1969, I never got to try the potato chips as my mom wouldn't wait in the queue for the kiosk as it was always busy, I'm surprised...
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    Bordesley Green area film/documentary

    I've looked on YouTube but I don't know what the title of the film was, tried searching bordesley green and small heath but no luck
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    Bordesley Green area film/documentary

    I I'm glad someone else remembers this and I didn't imagine it lol, I did manage to track down a film clip that was recorded in wyndcliffe school hall in 1969 which was something to do with the tufty club, but it's held on a old film reel at Lincoln university and I've not been able to view it...
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    Bordesley Green area film/documentary

    Does anyone remember a group of students filming in the area around Talford st and at little green lane/ wyndcliff school in the early 70s, probably around 1972/73, they were from a college or university and were making a film using old cine film cameras and talking to local Residents, they were...
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    Funnels

    I remember going in funnels when I was kid with my nan, Mr Funnel was always nice and friendly, as a child I was fascinated with the meat slicing machine on the counter, before leaving the shop I was allowed to choose some sweets and occasionally I would buy a lucky bag.
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    Bull Ring Centre - Potato Machine?

    Does anyone recall The potato machine (not sure if it was called that but my grandad always called it by that name) it was occasionally set up in the lower part of bull ring centre near youngsters toy shop in the early 1970s, the display consisted of various working models of miniature...
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    Hughes Biscuits

    Hi all My mom worked at Hughes/rowntree biscuits in the early 1970s, most nights after school I would wait outside the factory gates for her to finish her shift and then we would walk home together, I remember the boxes of broken biscuits she would sometimes bring home and one biscuit in...
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