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    Bordesley green

    My Doctor had his surgery in Cherrywood Rd his name was Doctor Bose, had to go to him when I broke my arm at Alum Rock school.when I was ten.
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    Bordesley green

    I was born in 172 Churchill road 1937 lived there til I was 14 I remember Farmers ironmongers and the bread shop in Blake Lane,faggots and peas from the shop just above there on Friday night. Mom was a conductress on the buses and she used to run whist drives in the hall in Blakeland Street. We...
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    Paynes shoe repairs

    I used to go and work on the bus that Brian? Watts ( Billy and Ivy Watts son) used to bring from by the Wagon and Horses to the Radleys to help out on Saturdays. I was parked on a site at the Radleys before the pub was built. Paynes eventually opened a shop at the end of the row shops in Sheldon...
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    Paynes shoe repairs

    I worked for Paynes from 1953, started at Sheldon shop, I worked at Lyndon Rd and was at Stechford when I went to my Army two years . I worked at Stockfield Rd with Selwyn Greenwood till I managed Albert rd. after that lots more and lots of holiday relief a long way out.
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