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Another rental firm from the past was Alex Owen, they had ashop on Stratford Rd Sparkhill. Ithink they were taken over by Rentavision who were then taken over
by Visionhire
It was 28 bob a week when i joined in March 1954 before any deductions like barrack room damages and a bit towards your credits ,which you could draw out when going on leave
Re: Birmingham History
Great to see this program, my 2 uncles Fred Harris and Cyril Trigg both in the Blues team. In those days they earned there money, 3 mathes played
Dec 24/26/27 Two games away at Midlesborough and Newcastle ,now they moan about 2 in a week.
My uncle Cyril Trigg who played for the blues ,went to work at S&U after retired from playing. Also my aunt Ida worked for them,she had a part time job
collecting the weekly payments from the people who had taken out a loan
Our coal when i lived in Formans Rd was delivered by Sid Sansom, who had a coal yard in Bromyard Rd. An old trick of my mothers to make the coal go farther
was to fill a tin can with the slack or at other times with pebbles.
Hi All
Just been looking through all the posts .They are all of groups Lets get some individual ones up. Iwill start with this one of me at Greet school in 1941 age 6.
The photo has a story attached to it. In 1943 my dad sent it to my uncle in North Africa ,he was with the 8th army. On the back...
Just found another picture of my late father in law Albert Palmer and his mate Jimmy Jones out delivering ,do not know were. Flags out for some reason.
This is apicture of my grandma Harris with 5 of her brood of 7.The eldist was at work, the other died from the flue the troops bought back after the first world war
along with my grandad. The picture is from 1920. My dad is back row left and the lad back row right is a young Fred Harris who...