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  1. I Am Nico

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    And it don't do office banter!
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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    My job, Coordinator Administrator, we were replaced by a computer system which is seriously flawed, and it can't think of course.
  3. I Am Nico

    Group photos

    I was given several birth family photos, one uncle had 11 daughters, no sons, one had about 25 children not sure if it was 2 or 3 wives. In my family a great great aunt had umpteen children till I discovered she raised her husband's other 2 sets of children of his previous 2 wives who died,. She...
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    Group photos

    Those frocks have a home made look
  5. I Am Nico

    Radio

    Who said "Can you hear me at the back?"
  6. I Am Nico

    Street furniture

    Just a twinkle in your daddy's eye . I haven't heard that expression in a while.
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    Street furniture

    Me neither I was in my pram then.
  8. I Am Nico

    GOING TO THE CIRCUS

    I expect you had there same Circuses which came to Coventry. I was always taken for my birthday in November. I just loved animals. Not realising then it wasn't natural. Gerry Cottle and Zeppos Chipperfields etc. Some were a bit down at heel. Tigers sitting up and begging on these tatty handlebar...
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    GOING TO THE CIRCUS

  10. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    Boundaries & districts are odd. My great gran died at the old Keresley Hospital, Coventry. Now a Hotel. The death certificate said Meriden.
  11. I Am Nico

    Old street pics..

    A wonderful 50s name. My Nan went to Marcia's in Cov but her real name was Maisie Suggitt . Not quite the same ring.
  12. I Am Nico

    Birmingham butchers retail

    I so agree . I am agreeing with Godber, not myself!
  13. I Am Nico

    Birmingham butchers retail

    We had a Tuckey too The Real Meat Company who closed recently, and we also had Putnam, Hillier, Dewhurst and the Co Op, in my area. Just Taylor now. But it was like that here. Sadly not now. Taylors have old photos projected on the shop interiors from yesteryear with rows of game etc and huge...
  14. I Am Nico

    Birmingham butchers retail

    We have John Taylor in Coventry, there used to be his cousin Alan Taylor & a relative in Balsall Common I think is still there.
  15. I Am Nico

    Martin Shaw.

    I had to take 2 buses to school as I wouldn't go to the one I was supppsed to, so it is possible. There were 6 of us.
  16. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    It was cool to carry a lighter, and to carry a plec (trum) even if you couldn't play. I lost a date being unable to play, I can now.
  17. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Less traditional &some TV enspired Christian names started creeping in. Mum's colleague called the baby Samantha Tabatha, from Bewitched. I had a classmate Dean, a Dallas, Daniel after the Blue Peter Baby , Tanya, the elephant,? that's what she got name called, Shane, Ross, Wayne...
  18. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Thoughts as much!. He was a jolly kid.
  19. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Or Leslie Caron in Gigi when she trims the end of Louis Jordan's cigar.
  20. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    I was at school in Coventry with a Peter & Julie Elliott I suspect not you.
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