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Someone on this thread mentioned wimbush doughnuts. The best, I should know I worked at the Acocks Green branch till they closed down. There were 2 shops in Acocks Green, I worked at the one on the corner of Dudley Park Road.

I was there from 66 to 70, don't recognize the names, remember Carol Beddowes, Susan Kenyon, Malcolm Booth, Paul Mayfield, Carl Emerson, Judith Smith, Susan Coley, Paul Nightingale Janet Sawyer and Jan Cooper.

I have this lovely old photo from ages ago but that building is just out of view. Shame.

You're about right, it's on Warwick road opposite cousins. I love the big windows, gutted it looks like it will be knocked down.

I wonder if anyone knows what this old building was used for years ago. When I moved to Tyseley it was selling small furniture, mirrors etc. I get the impression it is very old and I'm just curious about it's past.

Hi Vivienne, just compared that pic to the previous one and the building, windows, everything look totally different.

Yes, I used to work with a girl called Edna Mcreight, she used to go in there, early seventies.

Thanks for that, I'm always interested in any industry in Tyseley, I'm sure my mom worked twilight shifts there years ago. But because I started the thread about the co-op toy factory someone called radiorails closed the thread. I started another about Stephens Umbrellas. Thanks again and a...

Anyone remember this small factory in Tyseley, and where it was? I never worked there myself but knew people who had, and they all said how hard the work was.

It was, yes. Made 3 pin plugs, large and small electrical switchgear, they made and painted their own metal boxes. That just scratches the surface. Eaton took them over and moved the operation abroad. It's houses and a school now.

The MEM Spring Road wasn't far from the Reddings Lane site then

Thanks Robert

I used to work at Newey Goodman back in the days when people used nappy pins. Eurobrake, Serck and MEM, all are long gone. I was told there were MEM plants in Spring Road and Kings Road, don't know whereabout.

Corona! I remember them.

I think wilmot breedon made parts for cars, it was on amington road, huge factory

Thanks mikejee, I live in Tyseley and have watched most of its industries disappear. I've read about the toy works and wondered where it was, now I know

I worked there many years ago, late seventies, I still look back fondly because the team were so amazing.

My mom told me that the accident hospital, bath row, used to be the queens

I also attended this school as did all my siblings, one, the aforementioned Jasper Reeves. I remember Mr Allen, miss cave, Mr cockrell, also Mr gardener with a big bushy beard. Wish I could say they were happy times but alas, no. Harrison barrow closed down in the years I was at Hartfield - 1966...

Don't remember Crowthers but do remember Jealousy in the Bull Ring Shopping centre, bought all my clothes there. Also Werff by the top of Corporation Street.