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planetmalc

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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #198 on: March 01, 2016, 04:09:37 PM »
 
No, I mean the Bull Ring Centre.     The escalator is at the Rotunda end and moves down between the middle & bottom floors.
 
 
It's still down, but at least there were blokes working on it, today. ::)
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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #199 on: March 01, 2016, 04:12:48 PM »
If its anything like our motorways they will be there 6 months.
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« Reply #200 on: March 02, 2016, 01:16:48 PM »
If its anything like our motorways they will be there 6 months.
No, their tape (the equivalent of road cones) will be there for 6 months, but no-one will ever be seen working........
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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #201 on: March 09, 2016, 09:02:36 PM »
Selling the nylons. 1940s


planetmalc

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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #202 on: March 10, 2016, 01:56:24 PM »
Selling the nylons. 1940s
 
The old Bull Ring was a mecca for spivs, just after the war, but there'd always be some 'public-spirited' spoilsport who'd ring the police and get them chased off their pitches. ::)      I'd never condone their modern equivalent in our current 'land of plenty', but spivs actually filled a need in the early post-war years of deprivation.
 
When we used to ride the coach down to Bournemouth for our annual holiday in the early 50's, there'd always be some in Newbury Bus Station, where a more pragmatic view of their prescence was clearly taken.
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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #203 on: March 10, 2016, 02:52:43 PM »
PM

Why travel all that we we certainly had enough of our own, the trouble is they all seemed to specialise in nylons.
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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #204 on: March 10, 2016, 09:43:28 PM »
Selling mistletoe to the GIs.

planetmalc

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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #205 on: March 12, 2016, 03:10:00 PM »
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Why travel all that we we certainly had enough of our own, the trouble is they all seemed to specialise in nylons.

They used to do a roaring trade with the people from the holiday coaches who'd got off to stretch their legs.     Maybe being halfway to DVT makes you think of legs, which makes you think of nylons!
 
In your top photo, that's Larry Adler doing his Saturday job! ;D
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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #206 on: March 14, 2016, 04:21:29 PM »
 
The escalator is at the Rotunda end and moves down between the middle & bottom floors.
 
 
Yippee, it's been fixed   -   and in less than 2 months, to boot! ::) 
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« Reply #207 on: March 14, 2016, 04:36:03 PM »
 
Yippee, it's been fixed   -   and in less than 2 months, to boot! ::)
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Re: Bull Ring Photos
« Reply #208 on: June 01, 2016, 07:50:55 PM »
Selling the nylons. 1940s
Great photo!
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