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    Libraries : My First Visit To A Library.

    I also remember the dog with "eyes as big as saucers"! Was it in The Tinder Box??
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    New Bbc Series

    Watched this last night - thanks for the tip!
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    Rackhams Store

    Yes, his reputation isn't that great.
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    Rackhams Store

    Apparently some House of Fraser stores will be saved now, but no one knows which.
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    Crossroads programme

    I don't know any details, but Carolyn Jones (Sharon) has died. She was recently in The Archers.
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    Crossroads programme

    I saw this on Twitter. It was in a North Wales charity shop.
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    Small Heath Park (Victoria Park)

    It looks so refined in these photos.
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    Peaky Blinders - A world away from Downton!

    A Shelby in Moliere: https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/paul-anderson-tartuffe-interview-peaky-blinders_46625.html
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    Memories : Essence Of The 50s And 60s

    Yes, I mean a "book" of leaves. I don't remember them in dispensing machines, though, but it sounds a good idea. A few years ago, a friend gave me some National Trust ones - which I've mislaid! I think you can get liquid Dreft now.
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    Memories : Essence Of The 50s And 60s

    Soap leaves, which for some reason came into my mind today. We used to take them on long train journeys, I think. You can still buy them!
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    Peaky Blinders - A world away from Downton!

    It's a bit hard to imagine...wouldn't the guns be quite difficult to dance with? :-)
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    New Bbc Series

    Thanks, Mike, I will be iPlayering (that's not a word!) it.
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    Stechford In Bloom

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b223m0/britain-in-bloom-series-1-12-stetchford I saw about three minutes of this, but it's on iPlayer.
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    Coffee Bars:

    Strange to see!
  15. M

    Coffee Bars:

    Thanks to everyone who jogged my memory! I think it had three floors? But so did the Bull Ring one, or perhaps that was the one that had three floors. Occasionally it appears in a dream, as does Lewis's.
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    Coffee Bars:

    I was in Birmingham last month, and sitting upstairs with my husband in Pret-A-Manger I was trying to overlay my memories of that end of New Street on what's there now. It was hard. I couldn't remember where Woolworth's used to be, for instance!
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    Dessert Shops On Ladypool Road

    The first item on this programme is about dessert shops, a new thing, apparently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ztycd
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    Coffee Bars:

    The brickwork is lovely. Trying to visualise New Street, I can't place this at all.
  19. M

    Memories : Essence Of The 50s And 60s

    There was a rocking horse like that in Garrison Lane park!
  20. M

    Sweets We Used To Have

    I remember it (often used to pass it on the way home) but not the Blue Bird sign.
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