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Café in Icknield Street, Hockley

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Tuppenny Rice

Tuppenny Rice

Tibbatts, Birch, Bennett, Jeffcott families
My grandparents Sydney and Irene Tibbatts ran a cafe with a dining room upstairs in Icknield Street, Hockley in the 1960s. Does anyone have any info, memories, photos?
 
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I just found out that their cafe was opposite the Birmingham Mint, and it was where bus drivers had to stamp a time clock. Sydney did a thriving trade supplying the drivers with tea, which he would do by going out to the drivers, collecting their cans, and taking them into the cafe to fill and bring back out to them in their cabs. He was a short guy with shiny black hair and glasses. Does anyone remember him?
 
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