Freddie Lanes shop was opposite Mary Street, I think he had a son and daughter. Monks had a slaughter yard, next, or a couple of doors away from Freddie's shop. On a Saturday night we used to chase a guy from his shop up Balsall Heath Road as he called out " Arga City Blue Mail. ( Argus City, Blue Mail ) for our dad to get the football results, dad always had the Argus. Further to the topic of value clothing, there was a shop next to Burdens, not on Ladypool Road but going up the road off, the shop used to put clothes in cardboard boxes outside on the pavement for people to have a rummage in, very cheap, I used to have a lot of clothes from there when I was in my teens.