I know I'm terribly late in coming to this thread - and had never heard of 'The Kardomah' before - but I've just popped on my PC with a minuscule amount of information at my fingertips, thinking that I was going to be wasting my time... In brief, I had a reference to a Phil Woodward, who supposedly 'owned a restaurant', in the Birmingham area, during the early 60's... and that was all!
What chances of finding out the name of the business concerned and where it might have been, wonders I? A million and one chance, I tell myself...!
Evidently, I was underestimating the fantastic people on the superb 'Birmingham History Forum', wasn't I!? Lol!!