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Not only customers, but friends

Posted on March 1, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

A lovely bit of ephemera relating to Deakins’ Central Stores and Jonah Deakin has been sent in by the wonderfully generous Gillian Gaiser, who donated her wonderful writing about the Deakin family to the blog, published last weekend.

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The need for speed

Posted on January 26, 2014 by BrownhillsBob

It seems that reader Tony Winn opened an interesting can of worms when he set this fine question for the New Year Quiz.
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