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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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A treat for the choir and an ignominious extraction

Posted on April 13, 2014 by BrownhillsBob

Continuing with the surprisingly rich seam that is the thread originating from the 1931 Watling Street School Walsall Observer article, I’ve had a couple of excellent reader contributions which I just have to share.
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