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A quick search...
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Advertising poster, Clarke's Thunder Clouds Tobacco, framed | Thomas Watson
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ahh thanks markA quick search...
Advertising poster, Clarke's Thunder Clouds Tobacco, framed | Thomas Watson
lyn
The photo is on the corner of Northbrook st and Dudley Road. The 1915 Kellys lists 134 Dudley Road (in blue ) as Mrs Flora Clarke, tobaconist,, while the 1921 Kellys lists 1 Northbrook St (green) as Ada Cave, draper (presumably Mrs Tracy) and 1 Northbrook St(red) as W.E.Neron, hairdresser, though the W is missed off on the photo
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Lyn,
I make one observation regarding the ladies queuing for whisky. I have no idea what the commercial conditions were after WW1, I doubt anone on BHF was alive at that time.
However ..i do remember the end of WW2, I was eight years old then. I remember my guardian taking me to a wine merchants near the Robin Hood island in Hall Green, a far walk away, where we joined a queue at the wine merchants. This was prior to Christmas. My guardian was principally interested in buying a bottle of sherry - I believe that was all that she purchased but if there was an additional small bottle containing anything stronger I never knew. From memory I think this routine lasted a couple of years when I guess some alcoholic items were more plentiful.
Another item we seemed to have, at Christmas time, was Camp coffee. Coffee was probably in short supply and most people were tea drinkers anyway then. Coffee, I was told, was only to be had on infrequent occasions, as it had the effect of turning your skin dark. I suppose it accounted for Italians and South Americans having a darker skin colour.
I make one observation regarding the ladies queuing for whisky. I have no idea what the commercial conditions were after WW1, I doubt anone on BHF was alive at that time.
However ..i do remember the end of WW2, I was eight years old then. I remember my guardian taking me to a wine merchants near the Robin Hood island in Hall Green, a far walk away, where we joined a queue at the wine merchants. This was prior to Christmas. My guardian was principally interested in buying a bottle of sherry - I believe that was all that she purchased but if there was an additional small bottle containing anything stronger I never knew. From memory I think this routine lasted a couple of years when I guess some alcoholic items were more plentiful.
Another item we seemed to have, at Christmas time, was Camp coffee. Coffee was probably in short supply and most people were tea drinkers anyway then. Coffee, I was told, was only to be had on infrequent occasions, as it had the effect of turning your skin dark. I suppose it accounted for Italians and South Americans having a darker skin colour.
