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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Don't forget Drucker's in Temple Row.
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    It wasn't the Kardomah was it?
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Dogs and food, we had a German Shepperd that we left in the back of our estate car. She had water and the window was open so we thought she would be fine. When we came back she was sitting in the driver's seat looking really pleased with herself. On the floor in front of the back seat was what...
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    I used to cook both of them as a chef in Bristol in a French restaurant, beating the steak flat for a Steak Diane always gave me a feeling of satisfaction. I also made the pate for the Tournedos Rossini it was my own recipe and people used to ask me what it was, let's just say that a load of...
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Looking back at it now I'm amazed I survived
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Something else that has come to mind that I still look back and think of as funny and a slap in the face for those involved. A friend of mine and I went into a Chinese restaurant in Needless Alley for a meal. My friend was from Hong Kong, his father was from the UK and his mother was from Hong...
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Sorry, I can't help you there, but on a Tuesday I used to go to a wine bar in Needless Alley have a few glasses of wine, then on to The Burlington for a meal with a G&T to start, then a bottle of wine and to finish a brandy. The up to Snobs to dance the night away drinking Vodka, Tia Maria and...
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    Our local cinema was refurbished, but it seems that asbestos was found and now it's not going to reopen for some time. Sad really as it's just like one of the old cinemas we grew up with. It's one of the very few cinemas that are allowed to use the old Pearl & Dean logo
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    I used to love going to the Burlington Restaurant under the Midland Bank in the Burlington Arcade. You went downstairs and it opened up into a bar and then you went into a long room with a balcony to the right. It was silver service and you sat in the bar until your table was ready. They took...
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    It was down an alley on the left-hand side of Broad Street, all most opposite the Towrope Cafe. It was used as a setting for the made for TV series Gangsters.
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    Used it go there and watch B&W Flash Gordon and Batman shorts.
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    I used to go out with a driver called Ken delivering films to the cinemas around a wide area of the Midlands down as far as Ross on Wye. Middle of the night dashing out to the cinemas unlocking the doors, dropping off two large film cans, picking up the previous week's films and then dashing...
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    It was the Rajdoot at the top end of Albert Street on the left.
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    I used to go in there for a meal as I worked just along the street, it was the oldest Indian Restaurant in Brum. The Shah Baaa was not as old and I can't say the food was good. Went there one evening with a friend and we noticed mouse droppings and looked up to see mice wandering around in the...
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

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    P.C. David Green

    Thank you for the picture of the plaque I will never forget that night, and I hope it will be placed where there's a large footfall. People need to know just how much our police risk when they walk the streets.
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    P.C. David Green

    I must have been wrong about who was in command that terrible evening, things happened so fast and as you can imagine knowing who was where was not easy to find out being an outsider as it were. I may have met you as you walked the streets, there were so many of the lads from Steelhouse Lane...
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    Rag Market

    When I used to go to the Rag both to sell and buy we had tables supplied in the late 60s early 70s. People used to say you don't know when you're well off we had to sell off the floor, but they didn't give me a date.
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    1930`s Francis Barnett

    I have just run a check on the DVLA and sorry to say there's no record of the Francis Barnett.
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    Street furniture

    The Number 7 went to Portland Road Edgbaston and the Number 9 went to Quinton as can be seen clearly on the side. I used to catch the 7 to Portland Road it then changed number to 5 back into town and out to Erdington I think.
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