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Old Brummagem

Eamon1943

proper brummie kid
If you are shopping in Brummagem today
beware of a big surprise

The old town hall has been renovated
transformed before your eyes

Strolling down Colmore Row you'll pass The Grand Hotel
back in the 1960's I used to know it well

Snow Hill where we use to meet under the station clock
People walking past like a wandering flock

The station a hiss of steam as the engines came & went
Evacuation in the war years not knowing where we're sent

We as little children made to wear a gas mask & a tag
Our clothes clean & tidy wrapped up in a carrier bag

Over & across the street in the Kardomah coffee bar
Meeting friends & family & treated like a star

The Burlington Arcade just around from the Rackham's shop
Posh people use to shop there spending till they drop

Corporation Street & fancy shops girls who where so pretty
I have fond memories of our town good old Birmingham City

New street with expensive shops the Odeon on the right
I saw Ray Charles performing there what a cracking night

Walking by the Rotunda the Old Bull Ring down below
People loved to shop there trader barrows in a row

Mary Kelly was "the flower queen " a good age at ninety four
Sadly now Mary has passed the likes we'll see no more

Next to the old Woolworth's was my father's butcher shop
The only butcher in the Bull Ring were people liked to stop

Councillor Robbie Pryke was a small & dapper man
he wore a carnation & a bowler hat
selling eggs from his van

The wholesale market was exciting & the greatest place to be
Pulling a cart up St Martins ramp was tough enough for me

Starting at three in the morning lucky if we finished at twelve
Some tales I could tell you legally some I'll have to shelve

These ramblings I have written above thankfully of a happier time
Don't think my task is easy putting these memories to rhyme !

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The old Bull Ring Birmingham

Eamon 1943
 
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