Recent content by John L

Yet again a lorry has struck the low railway bridge on Summer Road, Erdington. Cross City line trains were again suspended on 30th April. See the photograph below, my previous post #693 and the link to the Birmingham Live report of the latest crash: Link...

I bumped into Carl at Euston Square Tube Station on Saturday on the way to Wembley (the less said about the game the better). Carl shook my hand with his usual smile. "An afternoon moment with Carl Chinn" and not quite as informative as several evenings I have spent listening to him I admit, but...

Bowie at the Town Hall in 1972 (photos by Mick Rock who like boilerman was new to the job). Mick shot his very first images of David backstage and then continued to photograph the fledgling Ziggy throughout the show. The pair clicked immediately, and Mick travelled back to Haddon Hall with...

& those awful e scooters. Is the aim to make the city centre a no-go zone unless you ride a bike or use public transport? As has been said, I would have thought there were bigger priorities than this.

I'm not near as good at darts as that John. ;)

No it isn't.

We went to the Rep this week and it was nice to see the statue back in place again, but I'm with Oldbrit as far as the "gold finish" is concerned. It looks much too bright for it's surroundings and it is almost as if a couple of tins of gold paint had turned up, and it was decided that they...

Richard died following a stroke, aged 90. Here he's pictured as Dr Kildaire (1 & 2) and in 1988 as Jason Bourne, in The Bourne Identity (3):

The only thing that surprises me, is that it took them (Adam & Carly Taylor) so long to play the liquidation card. They have form for this sort of thing :( (see below taken from The Times 9/8/23): "It now appears that the couple have a history of apparently ignoring planning permission...Mr...

Sad to see those shops closed so suddenly. Places like The Costermonger, The Cabin and The Oasis market will be replaced by something new, with the city centre becoming increasingly unrecognisable from what it was. I see the 'new neighbourhood' will include more than 1,000 homes and office...