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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    Quite right Adept Brummie, but did you find the answer on Google or did you work at JJ & H Hossell?
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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    Sorry Nico & Expert Brummie, nearly there but not quite correct. Your answer is one stage ahead of a fellmonger. Try again, but no searching on Google!
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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    I worked as the Assistant works manager at JJ and H Hossell in Coventry Street in Digbeth,they were a firm of Fellmongers,can anyone guess what a fellmonger was?? I`ll let you all know in a few weeks!
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    Madam Amies Dance School

    Did you ever bump into my brother Michael Neale?
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    Birchfield Road Perry Barr

    Remember it well Jenny ,we lived over the road at 4/65 BIrchfield Road I never went there it was my brother Michael,must have been 1958/1960 ,can just about remember the trams going up to 6 Ways
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    Coffee Bars:

    Yes!!!! I can see his face now,we knew him as Emile a real whizz on the coffee machine,can`t for the life of me remember what else they sold?
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    Coffee Bars:

    Anyone remember the Elasona on Soho Road? Used to go there from school (Handsworth Grammar) Froffy coffee in glass cups shaped like half a flying saucer!! Used to go downstairs to the pinball machine,you could slide up the glass and get one of those metal rulers in to get your scores into the...
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    Birchfield Road Perry Barr

    I lived at 4/65 Birchfield road in the 50s,it was at the other end near 6 Ways between Fentham Road and Mansfield Road anyone remember the Dance Hall over the road in Chain Walk? Went to Albert Road primary school,which is where Ozzy Osbourne went was there from 1950 to 1956 Miss Teague was the...
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    Lewis's Department Store

    My name is David Neale and I went to work at Lewiss on a temporary basis in September 1964 as a Christmas temp after leaving Handsworth Grammar School after my A levels. Not sure what I wanted to do did this as a fill in ,I worked with David Field at a temp warehouse in George Street where all...
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