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I remember Clark and Piercey on the Lozells Road. I did a lot of window shopping there as a nipper. It was run by a miserable grump who "didn't suffer fools gladly" as she put it. She threatened to throw me out of her shop because I objected to a styrene record she handed to me and couldn't be...

I had a summer job there in the late 70s. I worked downstairs in goods in/out and learnt to tie up packages. I can still do a mean Xmas present wrap. My elder brother worked there for a few summers and is still close friends with a colleague he worked with. I can't remember too much about the...

I have strong memories of Weaver and Hollins chippy in the small clump of shops where Mansfield Rd met Witton Road in Aston. This would have been the very late 60s/early 70s. It was sandwiched between a Hungarian TV/electrical repairman who had a huge shock of greying hair like Jon Pertwee and...

I went to Prince Albert in the 60s/70s. That building was used as a clinic and dentist at the time. I had so many fillings there.

I got a summer job at Rumbelows there in the 70s helping to deliver stereograms to mostly older customers who only had one old scratched Slim Whitman album to play on them. Apart from that, I remember the TSB bank opposite the Sainsbury, where the cashiers had to yank the shopping towards them...