Chris B
master brummie
My Dad, and his Dad before him owned Staffords Hairdressers at no 216 and my grandmother lived in the back. I remember the Shop that stands on a Bob - it really did, having had a shilling buried in its foundations. I bought records from Ludloe's, on the corner of Ludlow Road. I bought penny bottles of pop from Bloomer's. All our electrical goods came from Shaw's.
I missed the last week of the Grand Cinema because I was on holiday, but apparently they showed old newsreels made by Mr Cosens, the owner, in the 1920s, including one of my granpa's own football team, the Stafford boys, who tried out young lads for Aston Villa. If those films still exist somewhere, I'd love to see them.
I think Frank Cozens was the Manager of THE GRAND not the owner