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Of course, you could always wrap a note round a brick and throw it though a window.

They have to use machines to answer the phone because they cannot afford to pay staff - simples!

No wonder the Manchester is getting all the investment. The treasury is wary of BCC wasting even more money on projects like this - the biggest cock-up since Passchendaele.

He wasn't the only one to drink in the Minerva Vaults. I spent many a Saturday lunchtime there with workmates when I worked at Cannings between '61 and '72. Unlike the White Horse Cellars (another watering hole of mine from that period) I believe it's still there and still trading as a "proper" pub.

...and here's what the Kardomah has been turned into now - something that looks like it's been furnished with old railway sleepers and off-cuts from a saw mill...

I can't find the post now but I recall taking a lot of flack from "New Library supporters" on this forum when I predicted this outcome when the building was first proposed.

I suppose any fuel-oil company wouldn't be too put out about having no coal. :smug:

Yep, two great shots. I think the upper "ladder" is actually an exposed staircase.

#...Try to remember the fifth of November/ Gunpowder, treason and plot...#

Oh, I've always understood it happened at the Elasona. Just shows how history can get confused.

... and wasn't he, or one of his family, murdered in the coffee bar?

The Elasona.

Good news! The building on Colmore Row, which was the Kardomah is opening up again as a coffee shop.

Dunno about a function room but the pub sticks in my mind as the place I wound up in on my first shopping trip with my, later-to-be, wife. In fact it was the ONLY place I went while she rambled round the shops!

Although I never met Dennis from my communications with his he does seem to have been a gentleman. My sincere condolences to all his loved ones.

Yours is the most recent. Having bollards to prevent parking on the pavement wasn't necessary until quite recently.

I was quite happy living there from the time I got married until about five years ago when it took a sudden dive. My road was tree-lined and very pleasant until Rachman style landlords started buying up the properties. Then trees and front gardens began to be sacrificed for dropped kerbs and...

I didn't go to Handsworth Tech but had metalwork and art classes at the annexe to Handsworth New Road school, which was a '50s building sited to the rear of the Tech.

Bangles5652, It does seem strange that he moved down-market but I think you'll find it the other way around. Eugene left the Grove to keep the Roebuck.

Mmm... wonder if she'd mistakenly gone into a sewer. :ambivalence: