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Probably Pollyanna's? Pollyanna’s was a wildly popular 1970s nightclub located on Newhall Street, situated just a short walk from Great Charles Street in Birmingham. It was operated by the Fewtrell family empire, which dominated the city's nightlife at the time. Opened in the 1960s as The...

The cinema is mentioned on the Piccadilly Arcade website... https://piccadillyarcade.org/ I remember there was a Gym in the upstairs space in the 90s.

Great! Can you actually get a number 11 that goes all the way around now? When I was last in Brum it seemed that each bus only goes part of the way - I guess because of timing and the traffic?

Article about The Woodman on the BBC Birmingham website this morning... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7rd37re7o

Happy Birthday!

That made me wonder where the Perry Barr Institute was, I found this, apparently the building became the Birchfield Library... 1874, Perry Barr established its own institute based on the model of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. In 1878, Henry Irving became the president of the Perry Barr...

Interesting to see, my late cousin was the Architect for the Doug Ellis Stand.

Thanks, I should have thought to put it in this thread!

This article was on the BBC Birmingham website today and, as I didn't recall the name Peter Phillips, I looked for further information on him... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g984rd1wlo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Phillips_(artist)

Nice article about the Sports Argus from the BBC Birmingham website... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze2r133d7lo

There were people in my father's family who emigrated to New Zealand, probably around the same time, early 1900s. They were from the Aston area I think. I don't know much about it but I believe they landed in Dunedin. One of Dad's uncles didn't like it very much because he was doing some kind...

Thanks, I know Wiki isn't always correct!

They are, but I understand they can cause problems with aspects of our own wildlife.

I don't think this company has been mentioned before on the Forum. Last weekend I went for a visit to a building in my local area of London as part of a local history festival. It was originally built as an extension to what was the German Hospital in 1935 (the original buildings on the site...

An article about Charlie Chaplin with regard to the Black Patch on the BBC Birmingham news this morning, relating to a film to be shown at the Flatpack Film Festival today, which I guess Gerry was referring to in his post #170! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l2j18017xo