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    Jazz Clubs

    Remiss of me not to mention Johnny, as you say a wonderful drummer also a damn fine Barber and all round good bloke.
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    Brummie sayings & language

    Can I chuck in 'All my eye and Betty Martin' A polite term for BS I believe.
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    Jazz Clubs

    Correct, I said the Oak pub but I was mistaken. Thanks for the correction the old brain aint what it used to be! Roy
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    Jazz Clubs

    Tubby - Have you got 100% Proof? Blistering! Alan Randall - That must have been at the time he decided to become George Formby?
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    Jazz Clubs

    Johnny Patrick is the only name I recognise. My regular venue was the Embassy Bop Club next door to the Oak pub in Selly Oak. There was an amazing Parkeresque alto player in the early 50's Kenny Osborne but he caught one of the nutty religions and gave up playing. In the mid50's the house band...
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    Jazz Clubs

    Hi Maurice, It was certainly short-lived at the Robin and may well have moved elsewhere.I have very fond memories of the Golden Cross also especially when Tony Forde was playing. A very fine young tenor player who seemed to vanish without trace from the Jazz scene although I left Brum in 1962...
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    Jazz Clubs

    I have memories of Ronnie Scotts at The Robin Hood on Stratford Rd 1959/60? Long time ago and I only went once so could be wrong.
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    Ten Acres Stirchley

    WACADEN also had a dairy (bottling plant and delivery depot} in the Dip in Hubert Rd Bournbrook.
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    Birmingham Training college - Bristol Road, Westbourne Road

    Absolutely correct, American and Canadian service personnel were stationed in the wooden huts. After the war they were used for teacher training of returning servicemen. I remember as a child, the Americans walking up Hubert Rd on their way to the dances at the Dell in Muntz Park.
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