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When I was a student, I spilled a whole case /tray of 10 point ( which is quite small) metal type on the floor.
Of course I had to pick it all up and put it in the correct box on the tray. All type is reversed and difficult to read, especially the lower case B's P's Q's and D's.
The type face...
Just a couple of hundred yard down the road towards the Crown Hotel/Pub is St.Peter and St. Martins Place.
Odd having two saints in close proximity, But the church was called St.Peters.
My school went to Metchley lane for a sports day, it was the cricket season and after a huge downpour, and the terrific smell of cut grass,
I took my first ever wicket from a long hop.
I do remember it, on a Sunday my father would visit his father and brother who lived in Harbourne and have a drink in the Junction,
my sister and I would have to stay outside, with a packet of crisps and a bottle Vimto
Birmingham has a tendency to demolish beautiful buildings.
Do you remember those Georgian Houses on the Hagley Road between Five Ways and Monument Road?
I remember the GPO in Victoria Square buzzing with activity, in touch with every part of the world.
Just to go in and buy a stamp.