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One of my Dads sayings was "The place is run like Fred Karnos " and "Your burning the candle at both ends " happy memories

There was a small garage and petrol pumps on Croft Road it is now the site of houses the garage i think must have been demolished in the late 1960s early 1970s there was also a small builders supplies merchant at the side of a house on Church Road on the junction with Croft Road.

Enjoyed reading through this thread some great old venues my time going into town was early 1970s the ones i remember are The Gilded Cage which i think had dancers on Saturday nights in a cage . The Bierkeller Needless Alley . The Parasoll Hurst Street . Bogarts which i think had three floors...

I worked as a driver for a Moskvitch and Lada dealer in Sparkhill in the 1970s and was sent to tax many of the new cars it was usually a full morning or afternoon job thankfully i got a promotion to the parts dept so that task fell to someone else. Oozell Street tax office is a place i wont forget

Saw Screaming Lord Sutch at Bloomers night club and he performed a mock execution on Alice Cooper as he said Alice had nicked his act i can remember he brought a guillotine on stage to do this i think it was around 1972 ish