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    H SAMUELS HUNTERS ROAD BRIDGE AND CLOCK GONE

    Through the glass panel from where I worked [on a manual typewriter lol] I could see an open plan office on the far side, where ladies used comptometers. I remember thinking how fast their fingers worked and how they didn't need to look at the keys. I wonder if your mom was one of...
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    H SAMUELS HUNTERS ROAD BRIDGE AND CLOCK GONE

    ah that's a shame. I crossed that bridge most days in the five years I was employed there as an audio typist/junior secretary, starting at aged 16, working for a kind man called Mr Robinson. What a different working world it was then and I feel so fortunate to have been a part of the H. Samuel...
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    The Boys Brigade

    My brother Stanley Shaw was in the Boys Brigade at Nechells in the 60s - (we lived in Stella Street) He would have been 62 this year. There were 6 of us in the family. Not sure whether brother Graham attended too. Just wondered if anyone remembers Stan (or Graham) ? Joseph1933 - the boys...
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