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Bull Ring 1930s - 1950s

They seem to have sold a wide variety.

One advert mentions budgies, canaries, tortoise, snakes, lizards, rabbits, golden hamsters, tame mice, guinea pigs, goldfish etc, another adds chameleons and tree frogs and a third appears to include bush babies.
 
I remember it vividly, mum would always take us up the stone steps with the bronze handrail and past 'the bomb' so we could see the pet shop. It also had big fish tanks as well as kittens and puppies etc. The central handrail down the steps had studs on it to stop kids sliding down it!
 
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MWS said:
He doesn't appear to be. His father was from Droitwich, whilst the founder of Pimms was from Oxfordshire.

This old thread may be of interest to you...

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Thread 'Pimms - Icknield Port Road'

Here's a long thread starter....but I hope that something might trigger a memory or two, or three.......!!!

My dad, Bill Burton, worked at Pimms the Pets and Gardens Suppliers based in Icknield Port Road for all his working life, apart from his national service in the RAF. My mum, Phoebe, worked there too for about 15 years, as did I, part-time and during some of the school holidays. We lived at 166 IPR opposite the Pimms HQ. They also had big storage unit and vehicle parking and maintenance yard at the back of our house, accessed by a narrow drive off Summerfield Road (always referred to...
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My Goodness, that is and old piece good hunting!
 
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