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Hi all. Just walking up to the Alex but cut through Warwick Passage on my way and for the first time I noticed a magnificent art deco building hidden behind Corporation Street. Looks like an old theatre/cinema and will look up when I'm back home after the show but if there's info on here already...

Fine fare did the pink stamps. Ironically both green and pink were owned by the same company. Didn’t the co op replace the divvi with blue stamps too in some places? Don’t forget the coupons in fag packets too, I always said my mum was saving for an iron lung….she didn’t laugh!

Hops are herbaceous maybe it’s a way round things?

Love these old maps and trying to picture what it was like. Those courts were probably very grim and the pubs did good trade (probably mainly men no doubt!).

Just time for a quick one or many before the train home!

Where exactly on Pershore St was Teaplant House I wonder and guess it's long gone.

So Typhoo put the T in Britain but Barbers took the apostrophe out lol!

I did the tour the other week and can recommend that. It is many steps however. Staggered at how little space there is for everything. Also as you face the stage there is a surprising narrowing of the building on the right hand side which becomes very clear as you go backstage.

Although technically it is up for sale,Star Heineken do have plans to make it a “flagship” Pub. The lease was up for the current tenant and I noticed today that planning permission for an upgraded kitchen has already been submitted.

Great link and interesting maps. The old Birmingham Grand Theatre looks interesting.

Please stand behind the yellow line!!!

Latest photos of the restoration of the Gothic. A fine job already on the tower and the two new "attic" structures to replace those removed decades ago have been started. Excellent work to be fair.

They moved to Temple Row and more recently the company went into administration. The Temple Row site is now the Ivy Restaurant.

and there we have it…..The Fine Art and General Insurance Company as per the window! Austin Reed moved in during 1913 and this is a 1926 image when the upper floors were “remodelled“ according to the RIBA website.

some general insurance company ltd which hopefully someone else can trace to the location as I can’t make out the precise name!

Useless lot, I wanted a quote for redecorating my apartment and not even in the phone book!!!!

As of an hour ago yes!