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The 1920s one is very smart. I remember chocolate smoking sets (!) licorice pipes, and the seaside novelties. I had a sweet shop and a Post Office!!

That's how I remember it.

They look very seventies, don't they?

Yes, heady days!

I remeber the Bull Ring one having a soda fountain, where you could have a milkshake in the sort of glass that you don't see now, and the one in New Street having (I think) three floors.

It was really good.

I also had Scholl sandals and a pair of their clogs. I don't know if the sandals are made now.

I'm not sure I had those exact ones, but lots of people did. You see them worn by children in in Ladybird books, too.

The penny tray! I think it was called.

Is that a black one on the end?? Licquorice?

Thank you - Tip Top sounds right!

I mentioned these to my husband yesterday and neither of us could remember the name. They came in a long thin plastic tube and I can remember a blue one - what could have been in it?!

I have memories of MAC's dance classes in the 1980s. There was a wonderful teacher who later went to work at the university (she was doing an MA there while teaching us). I have never found a better teacher. During one of her classes, Wayne Sleep, who was appearing in something at the...

I can't see that ever happening.

It seems quite popular these days.

I thought he was in a production of Guys and Dolls at the Rep I saw around 1970, but don't see it here https://theatricalia.com/person/13c7/paul-henry I saw The Recruiting Officer and The Merchant of Venice from that list.

This is a query from a new member, BigAl, which he sent to me but meant to put it on the main forum so I hope it's ok to post it here. I'm trying to find anyone who knows anything about Horse Brasses related to this brewery. 60 years ago I found an old Horse Brass in a pigeon hole in a farmyard...

Could be interesting. Especially Mark Gatiss!

I don't remember it being that tall, but seem to remember a balcony.

I seem to remember a stream with a tiny bridge?