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https://hortons.co.uk/about-us/our-history/ this might be of interest to anyone interested in Atkinsons Brewery, once owned by The Horton Family

It was an usual place to work, everyone was given the equivalent of a pint of beer a day given in tokens you could exchange in the brewery shop, lunch in the canteen was with free beer, lunch in the management dining room at the cape of good hope opposite the brewery was free and free beer too...

The phrase "Gods drainpipe" springs to mind as one of Mr Pooleys idioms

Well in MHO he did not succeed

In the 70’s Mrs Minovi was an inspiration who taught me the German language and sparked my interest ladies in purple knitted dresses. As a 16 year old I fell wildly in unrequited love with our favourite German mistress.

That place morphed into Liberties run by Andy Gregorio in the 80’s. Now next door to TGI Fridays

I worked for Gibbs News Agents opposite the Kings Head in the 70’s when I was 14 and in the kiosk by the gents wc’s where the bus terminus was on the opposite side of the Bearwood Road. In the 6th form from 74-76 at Lordswood GTS we used the Continental Bar at the Kings Head as the unofficial...

I won the Louisa AnnRyland prize for design in my final year of 3D Design at Birmingham Poly on graduation. in 1980, I think it was £25. Her name lives on however I never knew why a prize was given in her name… now I do… thanks

I was a regular smoker and they sold a Turkish cigarette called a Mahawat which was unlike anything I had smoked before, the scent of that tobacco still haunts me 25 years after quitting.

I was a student in that building 1976-1977 where the Foundation Course in Art and Design was located, great times there and so many brilliant pubs nearby, The Fox and Grapes and the Woodman were the best for

I recall the Physics teacher, mass of ginger Curley hair told us he had personally ground the mirror for the observatory with two slabs of glass and carborundum paste rubbing together in a circular motion to create one convex and one concave mirror, how true that was is up for some conjecture

What a rogues gallery! I was at the school from Jan 70 to 1976, Telford house. some of those names I have no memory of at all.

I have to admit I was the designer who with a contractor, converted the Bournbrook to the Old Varsity Tavern, back in the '80's, good times, sadly I didn't own it or I would be living it up on the French Riviera now.

I worked at the Court Oak Harborne as an 18 year old bar man in 1975/76, before it was knocked about into a 1 room Goliath. It had a public bar, gents only bar, an outdoor where you could buy jugs of beer to take home, a smoking room, cocktail bar, lounge bar and a function suite, it hosted many...

Best of luck with that one, I imagine Coors might have them in Burton as they took the brewing arm of Bass, I doubt the M& B Offices in Brum would know nothing of them as they are just a brand now.