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Odd that you should put it that way. The pavements outside the Moseley station are currently blocked and there are temporary traffic lights there that slow down traffic on St Mary's Row on occasions. Not that much different from normal. On the other hand Kings Heath station has its temporary...

Nearest you get to that at the moment is the basement of Forbidden Planet on Bull Street. Same specialist books, less imports, no second hand. There's some second hand that might suit you at BookTower on poplar road in kings heath but that's little more than a shelf or two. If you have an...

Credit card numbers don't usually change with reissue unless you've got an upgrade or reported it lost or stolen. The acknowledgement number will change.

I tend to use this as a map reference https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.3&lat=52.45909&lon=-1.88978&layers=175&b=3&o=100 You should be able to change date to see the map through time - in the box about map overlays - but it does have different detail depending on the map you choose.

They still do tours by zeppelin in parts of Germany. https://zeppelinflug.de/en/zeppelin-flights?srsltid=AfmBOor208dFuTH53b_OcLVYrQE4-b8BWGFTS41M6Nm-8oWx1N2XXd5R

I remember some time ago after someone found a similar memorial from the local presbyterian church asking around about what was supposed to happen to such things. If the church still exists - in this case The Wesleyan Church not specifically the one on corporation street - it should still belong...

Some time in 1978 I started working for S Rose & Co who sold wholesale clothing and a few other things. At that time their main building was on the corner of Lionel Street and Ludgate Hill. They also had sections of the business in buildings on the other side of Ludgate Hill. The main building...

I think the "illegal" thing about Crass records was part of the selling point. The record that the police raided for and took away (not a flexi disc) was still for sale at the high street chains.

Kelly's lists the pub at 173 Balsall Heath Road up to 1965 but it's gone by 1971. No licensee is given in the 1965 entry.

I've checked through what I have of the old BSFG newsletters and this is a rough timeline The first bookshop opened in August 1971 at Old Hill In November 1973 the shop moved to 57 Summer Row then to 84 Suffolk St in December 1981 and finally to 2-5 Suffolk St although I don't yet have the date...

Andromeda went through 3 different locations over time. I could probably find out when and what the addresses were from the old BSFG newsletters - many of which you could find elsewhere on the internet anyway. It was run by Rog Peyton almost to the end. Part of that time Dave Holmes was next in...

I don't remember UFP cons in Birmingham although I went to a lot of others in the city through the 80s and 90s. Maybe I was never that much of a trekkie. I'm not sure if Rog Peyton (he owned the shop) is still around anywhere but around the time he left the BSFG (they are still about) he wrote a...

This showed up on the Heritage Week Events this year https://birminghamheritageweek.co.uk/event/golden-lion-cannon-hill-park/ As you can't safely go in to the building, everything's outside but it's a history of the Golden Lion with something on what they plan on doing with it in future if they...

They charge to visit the special exhibitions (Gas Hall/Water Hall) but they're all that's open at the moment. There's a date for opening the whole thing (late October) but nothing is said about admission fees.

Here's another recent report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c978l19l6rro