Recent content by BarryRa

Thanks for this - really helpful only if in confirming I'm not mad just possibly suffering the encroachment of too many of the things I was doing at the time in those venues. The Mountain gig and Johnny winter ones in particular had a real 'smoke' haze that lay across the room. Friend of mine is...

Sorry, should have been clearer. I meant the old department store, Henrys that used to be on the corner of union street and corporation street opposite Oasis. I think its now used by the civil courts. there was a small almost circular underpass with a door into Henrys and a small newspaper and...

thanks for the reply. yes, I think I recall the entrance close to New Street station ramp but am sure there was also access via the covered walkway from the old midland red bus depot. although the book is fiction, I want to try to capture the sense of the place. As I said, as an 18 year old...

Currently researching locations in early 1970s Birmingham for my new crime novel set in that period. I'm especially interested in memories of the Kinetic Circus that used to happen in the Mayfair suite. I'm trying to recall access points and layout. it was close to New street station but I'm...

I remember watching this in the seventies - it became quite surreal and strange in its plotting and narrative but is a cult classic of its kind impossible to find anywhere these days. My book is much more realistic, and is based on research with officers who served at that time as well as some...

Yes, it was my poor checking - the colliery office and some working was in Hurley. like you, I lived close to the strikes in wilnecote and remember the boxes in local stores collecting for the miners. my novel Borderline fictionalises a murder of a picket that leads to a complex plot and uses...

Hi, I'm a recently joined member - 65 years a Brummie now re-located to North Yorkshire. I'm a published crime writer and my current project that I'm presently researching is a novel set in Birmingham in the year 1970. I've had great help from some retired police officers active in this period...