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    bootneck42 reacted to Astoness's post in the thread 212-213 Broad Street in the 1980s with Appreciate Appreciate.
    hi mike i am sure someone will be able to help you...we may even have a photo of the recruiting office lyn
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    Eric Gibson replied to the thread Memories of Streetly.
    I worked at Hawthorn garage there in 1950 when I was fifteen, just out of school, down from Kingstanding and turn right at the Parson...
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    bootneck42 replied to the thread 212-213 Broad Street in the 1980s.
    Would it be OK for me to ask a question about Broad Street here please? Where was the Royal Navy-Royal Marines recruiting office in...
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    Dionysius//88 replied to the thread Needless Alley.
    Mike what do you know about The Grand Sultan Divan that you can tell us about please ?
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    Dionysius//88 reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Below is an impression of the YMCA in Needless alley, which previously had been the somewhat notorious Grand Sultan Divan.
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    SILVERFINGERS reacted to Alf Rogers's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Great memories! Many thanks! But I can't remember where Spicers were located. I'm sure I must have passed their shop and peered in from...
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    SILVERFINGERS reacted to Berrihert's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I remember the West End Stamp shop very well.I used to spend my pocket money there in the 1950’s.Mr Hughes a charming polite man in gold...
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    SILVERFINGERS reacted to oldbrit's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Thanks dave, Collected stamps for years did a lot of business with them Also it was a penny black, very rare in those days
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    SILVERFINGERS reacted to Dave89's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi Oldbrit, It was the West End Stamp Company. The other main philately shop in Birmingham was Margoschis in the Burlington Arcade...
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    SILVERFINGERS reacted to oldbrit's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There was a stamp shop around there. Had a penny black in the window one time.
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    SILVERFINGERS reacted to HEATHEROFSTAFFORD's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I spent many happy hours in the Stamp Shop in Needless Alley
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    paul stacey reacted to No27's post in the thread Canals of Birmingham with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Youve got my other grandparents on here - Fordrough St., just before they knocked it down to expand the rail yard.
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    Dinger reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Below is an impression of the YMCA in Needless alley, which previously had been the somewhat notorious Grand Sultan Divan.
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    RoyMcC reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Needless Alley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Below is an impression of the YMCA in Needless alley, which previously had been the somewhat notorious Grand Sultan Divan.
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    mikejee replied to the thread Needless Alley.
    Below is an impression of the YMCA in Needless alley, which previously had been the somewhat notorious Grand Sultan Divan.
    • ymca, EX Grand Sultan Divan in Needless Alley.jpg
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