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Parisian Club Cannon Street

Barr_Beacon said:
This photograph brought back memories of the cold wet rain filled autumns / winters of the seventies. Note The Foster Brothers tartan jacket (complete with nylon wool) the chap on the right is wearing. I spent quite a few weekends in this pub. In the eighties Davenport's bought it and renamed it Cagney's (I suppose to compete against Bogart's on New St) Cagney's was much smaller and the bar was downstairs. It was a pub but it was done out like a nightclub, covered in mirrors, it reflected (forgive the pun) the gaudiness of the eighties I suppose. Try as I might, I haven't found anything about Cagney's but I still live in hope.

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The girl in the doorway putting her hood up looks so much like my wife.
 
I remember a Birmingham DJ called Bilbo Baggins I don't know where he played in Brum but he used to play at The Sportsman Arms, in Allesley, Coventry. On The Coventry/Birmingham Road. I think he was in a band I will get more info. Is it OK on this thread?
 
The older group of lads that I tagged on to who had cars used to go to a Birmingham night club called Rebecca's. They said Brummie's were much more friendly and I adhere strongly to that but I was always afraid of not being able to get home if one of them got off/pulled! So I never went!
 
coldbathkid said:
Yep, I remember it well, it was up one of those side Streets on New Street, maybe Needless Alley.

But it was just a pub that had a DJ, not a NightClub you had to leave at 10:30 like all Brum pubs back then!
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Yes it was up Needless Alley off New Street. It was a pub with a DJ. You went downstairs to it and then it was on two levels. I spent many happy Saturday nights there probably late 60’s early 70’s
 
Barr_Beacon said:
The Fillibuster was the pub that was on the corner opposite the Snow Hill car park (The Royal Angus Hotel was just around the corner from it). It changed its name to The West End Bar and was closed down by the police in December 2000. On the same side, if you walked up towards Lloyd House, there was a pub there called UB's, owned by members of UB40. It was a pub before they owned it, anyone remember what it was called?
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Hi Barr Beacon it was called Fanny's i think it was a Pub Restaurant .
 
raz ullah said:
Hi Barr Beacon it was called Fanny's i think it was a Pub Restaurant .
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That was it! Memories coming back to me now trying to suppress adolescent sniggers as I walked by it with my girlfriend.
I'm sure I went to a bar once under The Filibuster called 'The Bodega', can you shed any light on that?
 
Yvonne B said:
Yes it was up Needless Alley off New Street. It was a pub with a DJ. You went downstairs to it and then it was on two levels. I spent many happy Saturday nights there probably late 60’s early 70’s
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Was it Needless Alley where the German Beer Cellar was. That was down stairs, Good beer aswell.
 
Barr_Beacon said:
That was it! Memories coming back to me now trying to suppress adolescent sniggers as I walked by it with my girlfriend.
I'm sure I went to a bar once under The Filibuster called 'The Bodega', can you shed any light on that?
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Sorry Barr Beacon i don't remember The Bodega bar i stopped going up town in 1973 when i met my wife and we married in 1974 . Raz .
 
Barr_Beacon said:
The Fillibuster was the pub that was on the corner opposite the Snow Hill car park (The Royal Angus Hotel was just around the corner from it). It changed its name to The West End Bar and was closed down by the police in December 2000. On the same side, if you walked up towards Lloyd House, there was a pub there called UB's, owned by members of UB40. It was a pub before they owned it, anyone remember what it was called?
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It was called Fannys . Raz
 
raz ullah said:
It was called Fannys . Raz
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Fanny's later became UB's (I think some of the band members bought it), I went in there a few times but The Bodega was under The Filibuster. I only went in there once and seem to remember it was decorated like a traditional Spanish bar with the ends of large barrels stuck on the walls. I only went in there because I was surprised to find it was open. This would have been in 1980.
 
yes the pub under the fili slightly to the right was fannys...i used both back in the day

lyn
 
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