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Somebody always comes up trumps when I post these little queries so I hope that holds true today. Can anyone please tell me if the Locarno was still open in 1971? There's no rush I just need the information within the next hour. ;) Thanks in anticipation, O :redface:

Dunno so much, Jim. That little figure on the right bears a striking resemblance to Pom. :D

Moma P, Our fear of water is strange when I reckon the odds of getting killed on the road must be a lot greater.

While it's true about the memories, being a youngster I only have vague memories of the Bull Ring as it is in that print. My most vivid recollections are of the 60s development as this was the era I grew up in. Images of that decade conjure up people I met at that time - work mates, drinking...

Thanks for the replies folks. It was the detail that caught my eye. I thought it would be interesting to see the original just to compare it with the print. Nobody's got it by any chance, have they? ;)

Thanks beatrice. I was a rather concerned as the fixing appear to have been hacksawed through to remove it, and knowing the morons that are around these days... well, you can guess what was going through my mind.

I acquired this in a charity shop yesterday and wondered if anybody knew anything about the artist - Robert K Calvert. I've checked the web and the only reference I can find is to this actual print fetching £20 an an auction in 2005. Sorry 'bout the poor quality of the photo, it was a bit...

Does any one know what's happened to the recently erected monument to the civilian air raid victims? I was down the Bull Ring yesterday and all that's left is the plinth.

Great project Peter! :great:I hope it goes more smoothly this time. Must say I admire your sticking power - you obviously don't live by the same code as me: If at first you don't succeed destroy any evidence that you ever attempted it. 8)

The DVD is available here: https://tinyurl.com/yrztxf

Thanks bestfriend. :great: I wonder how many young bucks woke up with a dicky stomach in the morning and blamed it on your hot dogs not the eight - eleven pints they'd had in the beer tent. :lol:

Yup, I saw that too, thanks bill, but I need to know the last year it took place. Keep 'em coming folks. ;)

robert, Thanks for the reply. I thought it was about then but I'll wait and see if anyone can come up with something definite. Alf, Yup, I saw them when I was looking it up. Although they're pictures of the tulip beds, they're not of the actual festival which, as robert suggests, was fell...

The Tulip Festival has been mentioned in quite a few posts just in passing but can anyone tell me when the last one was held? I need to know for a piece I'm working on. It's fiction (well, it has to be off me, doesn't it?) but I need to get the historical background right. All I can turn up on...

Pom, I'm afraid your link goes nowhere. John, I can assure you your Granddad wasn't the last to drink himself to death in the Roebuck, it was a thriving place for that pastime until quite recently when it became some sort of Muslim community establishment - some change, huh? I have many...

Linda, If you were in the GB, or even BB, you might be interested in Claribel's post on this thread https://tinyurl.com/2xm8d5