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Old 29th Nov 2022, 6:18 pm   #8
Junk Box Nick
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Default Re: Raymart Birmingham?

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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki View Post
I remember Ray Withers operating from the attic of a house in south Birmingham in the late-1970s
I suspect you went to Halesowen which to non locals seems like a part of south(ish) Birmingham. VW Super Beetle parked outside?

I will have his QSL card somewhere.

I didn’t know Raymart had manufactured condensers and dial drives but in a way they were in the right place as there was a lot of small metal bashing in Birmingham so lines of supply would be easy. The Jewellery Quarter still had small metal workers, badge manufactirers, etc., in addition to the jewellery and silversmithing trades the last time I was there though it has slowly going back to (gentrified) residential, which it was before hard up householders started letting their front rooms to jewellers, etc., and established the Quarter. As my old Dad would say: what goes around comes around.
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