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Dear
Nostalgic
It's amazing how well people respond to a challenge! After "Birmingham
in the Fifties" and Birmingham in the Sixties" came out, several
people wrote to us to say how much they enjoyed the books but that they
had even better material themselves. Bristling with ill-placed indignation,
yours truly retorted, "OK - prove it!" In reply, dust clouds
rose in attics as tea-chest were opened for the first time in donkey's
years, relatives were pestered, photographs prised out of albums and so
on as the whole enterprise became a quest for that elusive better picture/leaflet/cutting
- whatever.
This book along with "Birmingham in the Fifties Vol. 2", is
the result of that partnership between you and us. I hope you think it
was worthwhile - we do!
Yours, in friendship
Alton Douglas |
