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    Crawford street Saltley

    My mom used to live in Crawford street 6/11, but, the family left in the 40's and moved to Ash Road. My Aunty ran Crown Mission and I attended there on Sundays for Sunday School and Tuesdays for The Temperence Society. I had quite a few friends that lived in Crawford St. and Cranby St. That...
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    Broken crisps & biscuits

    My Auntie Marge was probably telling the truth then.
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    Broken crisps & biscuits

    My mom worked opposite Hughes biscuit factory, at Thornley and Knights. She would pop over there during her lunch break to buy a bag of broken biscuits, and they would sit in her bag the whole afternoon, soaking up the smell from the Tekoloid (paint). By the time she got home with them they...
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    Broken crisps & biscuits

    Not sure.
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    fish and chip shops

    Remember Harry Ramsdens on Coventry Road, me and my mom used to get two buses to get there. Didn't do that too often.
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    Broken crisps & biscuits

    My Auntie Marge, used to work at Typhoo Tea, and she said that the tea in teabags was the loose tea swept off the floor. (of course she was joking?)
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Yes, I think it is.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Hi, lovely to see all these pics. I worked at Jefferson 'B' Fashions, 24 Albert St. I worked there from 1972 - 74 and there was no parking lot then.
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    Sorrento Hospital Nursing Home

    So, is there some special reason for us to have been born at Sorrento Hospital?
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    Birmingham buses

    My mom tried to get tokens for me, too. They said my journey was not ten miles ( I was traveling from Ash Road, Saltley to Hodge Hill Grammar) so, my Uncle took the journey with me and measured the miles in his car, it was just over ten miles. So, my Uncle or Mom, can’t remember, queried this...
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    Adderley & Cherrywood Schools

    Yes, I think she may have had a brother, didn't really see much of him.
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    Sunday School

    That would have been my Aunty Gwen and Aunty Wilson (although she wasn't my real aunt).
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    Crawford street Saltley

    My family lived in 6/11 Crawford, but, moved way before your time. My Aunty ran Crown Mission on Crawford Street, until the 70's, I used to attend the Sunday School and Band of Hope on a Tuesday night.
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    Saltley & Alum Rock

    My Aunty Edie lived at 59 Phillimore Road.
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    Saltley & Alum Rock

    Yes, the shops and the first house (#6, where my Aunty and Uncle lived were demolished) in the late 80's
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    Adderley & Cherrywood Schools

    Hi Sue, Gillian Tailor, a name from the past. She lived by my cousin, Mary, an we used to hang out with her. Also, Rachel, did you know her?
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Doesn't that sign, in the right hand window say "Flowers for all occassions"?
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Spent my first weeks wages on a pair shoes from that Stylo's. I worked in Albert Street and used to check every morning to make sure the shoes I wanted were still in the window.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Yes, it was. I worked in Albert Street, not at the Beehive, though.
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