Nick Phillips
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Just having another look at the photo. I wonder if some of our younger members understand what on the cafe wall (NOR 6028) stands for? It was the phone number for Cafe. NOR was Northern.I think this is a great photo, when I was a young lad, I walked these streets many times.
It's the corner Icknield St and Hingeston St It was the route of 96 bus out of the city.
The man crossing the road is Ellen St, where the car is in the distance the white building is the Laurels pub this is crossroad of George St West to the left was Prescott St at the end of photo to the left was Clissold St.
The 96 buses would turn right on to All Saint's Rd then onto Winson Green.
Nick Phillips
This was before Birmingham changed to 021 then it changed to 0121.
At this time very few houses would have had a land line.
And the mobile phone had not even been thought of.
Nick Phillips
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