Richard Dye
master brummie
The points came in a small book that my mother would give me periodically. I think a point was worth 2 ounces of sweets. I’m not sure of the allowance monthly but it wasn’t very much at least seemed to me
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The corner sweet shop
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.Cheers Paul, - The building is still there (see link), although it's no longer a newsagents. Old Mr. Webb kept it going for years, it was a Post Office as well. He became quite famous for the number of times he had faced-off armed raiders.
paul stacey
master brummie
Well Dinger?? how can a place change so much,?? there is nothing left, of the old Victorian village, of my childhood, normal I suppose, but somehow very sad, to an old man, thanks for posting .
It is shocking to walk down the streets and visit the areas that we knew so well now and to see them so changed, rarely for the better in my opinion, Paul. I remember my father saying much the same to me forty something years ago and listening intently as a boy, to my Nan telling me in remarkable detail about what Erdington had been like when she had been a young girl in the Edwardian era.
One of the things that is so good about this site, is that we are all able to share our memories with each other. Those memories and the photographs that are posted here, bring the past back into focus for us all and combine to provide a tremendous collection of posts that highlight so many varied aspects of Birmingham's rich history.
