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King Kong Statue

I may have some members disagree with me but I still think it's a cheap and nasty monstrosity, sort of thing you would expect to see in a fairground, like so much of Birmingham's so-called 'modern art' . Apologies to members with a different view but I had to say it. I thought the same about that other fibre glass 'work of art' placed in centurian square (I believe some one set fire to it). Eric
 
I never saw it, but don't personally have a high opinion of it. But , of course, for some of those that did see it, it reminds them of pleasant memories
 
I do know what you mean Cookie, although I am quite fond of him myself.
Maybe if Birmingham had not lost him we wouldn't feel the same affection!
 
Looks like KK got dragged into an industrial dispute - construction workers? What was TPI? Viv.

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I believe after it was removed from Manzoni gardens, it went on display at a second hand car dealers owned by one of the Fewtrells on the Stratford Road in Sparkbrook.
 
It did, the car dealer was called "King Kong Kar Ko" it was just up by the redundant church
 
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