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    Bradshaw the Printers Harborne & Halesowen

    Ping pong !.... it took off alright it went mad & I don’t think we ever stopped printing them, one machine constantly churning them out & the laundry ticket books they were so popular right up to the very last day & I think were sold by the receivers separately. I remember the name Bernard...
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    Bradshaw the Printers Harborne & Halesowen

    I'm keeping my options open at the moment see what happens but applying for all sorts - how strange though about the car delivery, my last job was working indirectly for JLR delivering cars to the press & VIP's all over the country & also did some royal work as well taking them cars !! luckily...
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    Bradshaw the Printers Harborne & Halesowen

    When I saw those initials I thought is that Rob ??!! - how lovely to hear from you on this forum. I too left the industry a few years after Sunderland Print went, Dad & I had a go at starting a business in London with a chap called Jon Grover which was great for a while but we had to get back to...
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    James Upton Printers, Great Charles Street, Birmingham.

    It was John Sunderland who was my father, he was the managing Director of James Upton for a number of years before he left to start his own printing business called Sunderland Print. They subsequently bought Allday Green & Welburn, Bradshaw Brodie & then the massive mistake of buying Lowe...
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    Bradshaw the Printers Harborne & Halesowen

    Thank you for your kind words about Dad, yes after the purchase of Lowe Brothers life never returned to normal nearly as one finds today totally nuts !! I can't say that I have been successful at all if I'm honest but in saying that I live in a lovely part of the Cotswolds with two grown boys &...
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    Bradshaw the Printers Harborne & Halesowen

    I think the RNLI was one of Dads favourite clients in the latter years of the business & oh do I remember the Christmas cards started in January to print if my memory serves me well ?!
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    Bradshaw the Printers Harborne & Halesowen

    I can remember the names of Les Timms & Sam Hatton - yes Sunderland print also use to print Stoke City, Hull, Sunderland, Norwich to name but a few, I can remember that I use to go to Roker Park quite regularly to deliver the match day programmes with one of the drivers at the time as I would of...
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    Bradshaw the Printers Harborne & Halesowen

    Well I'm over 5 years late joining this conversation but I am the eldest son of the late John Sunderland who was the MD of Sunderland Print who bought Bradshaw Brodie, they were next door to my fathers business & made perfect sense to acquire the business as they literally just knocked through...
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