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So Brummies aren’t left out.

Some great footage of #Birmingham 50 years ago.

Six days a week Fred Davis travels the eerily empty streets to run his business in the Vegetable Market.

This edition of Look Stranger was originally broadcast on BBC2, 28th November 1976.

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1976: A Morning With the Fruit and Veg Men | Look Stranger | World of Work | BBC Archive
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October 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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From Wikipedia, this quite wonderful pre-war poster.

"See Birmingham's charming suburbs by 'bus."

(Love the apostrophe before "bus".)
July 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM