Back in the 50's my Dad used to work for TASCOS (10 acres & Stirchley Co-operative Society to you), delivering coal from a horse and cart.
I used to go to the stables which were behind the main shop. Later I was
to help out a TASCOS bakery guy, delivering bread (and cakes) to your door in a wicker basket. Does TASCOS still exist?
Oh, yes, dear old TASCOS! My dad had a milk round at TASCOS between '55-59, and his elder brother (my uncle) worked there for 30-odd years, latterly as a supervisor, until he was involved in a crash in his works van, from which he never quite recovered.
And in '59, my uncle arranged for me to work at the dairy during my school holidays - it was a hot summer, and going into the cool room and zapping down a pint or two was a real treat! With "Joe" the driver I was on what they called the "meat run" - a flat lorry replenishment vehicle for the electric floats, with the additional job of taking churns of "pigs swill" out to the outlying farms, and discharging them into the troughs. Heavy work - but I got to enjoy it; whether I could have stuck it as my "career job", I'm not so sure!