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I was thinking within 800 yards of a ground Mike, but as you say parking is a different matter and people can park as much as a mile and a half away. Residents only parking was introduced some time ago, to help local residents park outside their own homes on match-days, but it seems it is rarely...

Might she have been employed in some capacity at that address, perhaps as part of the parish priests household staff?

I guess they will be aware of it and would be used to the odd fan stopping to have a look, that said quite a few residents seem visibly shocked every other week, when football fans walk backwards and forwards past their houses, on their way to and from Villa Park on match days. I would have...

Delicious stuff back then.

We have had cats that have jumped onto the bonnet, I think it's the heat from the engine that attracts them.

As Steptoe & Son demonstrated with Hercules:

Sadly, this is so predictable. I guess it's simply a case of supply and demand. Hotels are more expensive when something is happening in the city, because the demand for rooms is higher than normal. Hotels around Wembley are exactly the same on Cup Final/Semi Final dates, with prices much higher...

Visitors who travelled to Aston Hall in some style, 99 years ago:

I went with the junior school too. I think we went in a double decker bus, I'm sure the school will have booked us in as a group. I haven't a clue on the admission cost, it will have been in old pennies though. :laughing: It was one of several trips to B6 that I made as a boy, great fun and I'm...

It was a temporary sculpture in Victoria Square. It was outside the Town Hall from July 2021, but was relocated to Colmore Square by December (to make way for the Christmas Market). It then remained in Colmore Square throughout 2022 and was then moved to Aston Hall & Park, and it is now in Lady...

Something that looks totally out of place in Aston Hall? This new work probably does merit a place somewhere, but I don't really think this is it.

Yes lyn. It's nice that one of us will be there and he can tell me all about it afterwards. I still tell my family of going to stadium concerts 40+ years ago to see the likes of the Stones and Simon & Garfunkel at Wembley, he can hopefully do the same about this one, in the 2060s... ;)

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I was one of the lucky ones lyn. :grinning: Villa gave their Season Ticket holders an opportunity to purchase tickets online on Thursday morning and although there were no seats anywhere near the stage, that my wife and I could have used, I was able to buy 2 standing tickets for my son (who is...

Hospitality tickets for the Villa Park show from the club's web-site below. I think I will go for the Platinum Box Package (I just need to win the lottery first;)): Platinum Box Package - • Private reserved box for 12 guests located in the Trinity Road Stand. • Post event lounge access for 30...

I had feared that it would be a re-run of the Oasis fiasco. So many want to be there and tickets are so limited. I guess people will be travelling from all around the UK, from Europe and from other parts of the world for this one (the ticket touts will also have made certain of their share), so...

Not much happened in there on the odd occasions that I popped in, with friends who knew it rather better than I did in the 70s, for a couple of pints. It just seemed to me to be a rather dark bar, which sold drinks after the other pubs had closed for the afternoon and it was largely frequented...

For information purposes, tickets for Bruce Springsteen last year at Villa Park, started at £65 standing and the Platinum Box Package was then £325. Given the figure for the package, prices look likely to be from well in excess of three figures for the day. If I was looking at a package, I think...