Yes I remember Kyrle Hall nearly 50 years ago. My girl friend was leading lady in an amateur production of the Gilbert & Sullivan opera 'Ruddigore', and I sat through several rehearsals, weekday evenings and Sunday afternoons, when we would would finish up in the newly opened Shalimar restaurant at the corner of Stafford St and Coleshill St. The performance was given in the old Bham & Midland Institute main hall for three nights, 6th, 7th and 8th March 1957. I disappointed her because I didn't think of presenting her with a bouquet during the applause after the performance, as was the custom, but I didn't realise that at the time. All part of life's colourful pattern.
Peter