Don This is easy enough as I remember the shop myself, it was W.Ponds it was there for a good many years. Something at the back of my mind tells me that sometime in the 60's the shop was taken over by W.H.Price who later branched out into tool & plant hire with shops all over Birmingham and a big depot in Newtown.
Phil
Again Thanks Phil, but in 1971 They were in Lower Corporation St, opposite the Courts, and trading as WH Pond & Co Ltd, and mother spent a small fortune - £1.234 on a Coronet Major Woodturning Lathe, Sawbench, and Mortiser, with all tools and a cabinet stand for me, as a gift on my second wedding- and the following year, we took the Bro in law there, and he bought the same rig. two years later, they had gone- we heard to Newtown, so we bought items elsewhere - again Phil, thanks very much, it is appreciated. Oh! by the Way, I see there is a Pub, I have not seen mentioned, yet, on here, up on the right, in Great Hampton Row, called The Hampton, but it looks a right dive! dontheturner.
