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    Paynes shoe repairs

    Hello Lozellian, I've checked with my brother, Robert, and neither of us can remember a shop in Prince of Wales Lane. The nearest one that I know of was at the bottom of Haunch Lane. When we were little our mother would take us to Swanshurst Park and sometimes to Trittiford Park, where we could...
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    Margery Elliott publishes her first book (The Story of Rotton Park) at 99 years old!

    Hello, Are you the Margery Elliott who used to sing with the City of Birmingham Choir? If you are, I remember you well from the '70s and '80s, when I sang first bass and sat in the front row under Christopher Robinson's nose in the rehearsals at Dr.Johnson House. No doubt you will remember my...
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    Paynes shoe repairs

    I have only just found this website. Harry H.Payne was my grandfather, so W.R. Payne was great-uncle Bill. I only met him a few times and only in the context of work as he continued to manage the shop in Selly Oak after he sold the business to my grandfather. I can comment on a lot of the posts...
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