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Best guess. They didn't fill most of the units and Primark wanted a bigger place.

The BBC plans to move it's headquarters in Birmingham in 2026 https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/broadcast-centre-birmingham They will only be using half of the building (the part that was formerly S Rose & Co) and the Business School in the other half will stay where it is. That was the...

No Arts Lab cinema on Smallbrook ringway or thereabouts in the early 70s. If you saw Satyricon around there it was probably in the Cinephone.

I think she came more than once but the time I remember most was some event in the book festival one year when "Magic Realism" was the big thing. The speakers were Chris Priest and Her. Since I knew some people who knew Chris I was roped into a crowd after the event at one of the tables in the...

I don't remember getting anything signed at Hudsons although they were good with the King Penguin, Picador and other similar formats at the time. i do have a bunch of signed Angela Carter books 'though I don't think they were from Hudsons.

At some point in the film there is a massive song and dance number. Some of the bit players in that scen include Birmingham City Council and the central office staff of the T&GWU. Apparently my dad was in there somewhere.

The second of these no longer has tickets available. From the title and description, it's a version of the Dyche and other photographs exhibition that was on at the central library earlier this year. The attached exhibition is advertised as on at the upstairs room at the back to backs so the...

The cards in the window say Wholesale and Export only so it's possible they're not going to advertise in Kelly's. Beyond that, you're looking at a business that is only named by cards in the window. It's unlikely they had been around that long when the picture was taken and it's even possible...

Walking down Hurst Street and looking across an expanse of ground that had recently been demolished I saw something I hadn't noticed before. There is a building called Baskerville House on Barford Street...

There seem to be several cases of phishing here lately. Did you know that most online email accounts have some simple automated method of reporting phishing from the same page as you use to access your email? Admittedly this will go to the email provider rather than anything official but they're...

HM generally use .gov.uk for things although there are also a lot of functions that have been delegated to non-governmental organisations that could have any extension they want.

There is a Birmingham Heritage week regularly in September but they haven't announced their programme for this year yet. The listing should be available this Friday (5th August) on https://birminghamheritageweek.co.uk/

What that means is that it's found a virus called "Linux.Mirai" and put it into their quarantine folder. From that you might be able to find out where it came from and you should be able to delete it safely.

The problem with that is that there was a Camp Hill station before and it was in a space that could probably take a station again if the line is successful.

There seem to have been a lot of souvenir books from the coronation. My mother had a grey hardback book. I scanned a few of the pictures thinking they might be wanted for the Jubilee but nothing came of it.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-moseley-railway-station-plans-23967972 Apparently , the end of next year.

Most of the ones that were converted to multiplexes were converted in the 80s or 90s. It seems like most new cinemas are built as multiplex except for the odd few that run IMAX movies only (e.g. Millennium point) or the odd independent.

The baths have been getting grants of late. This is the press release for the most recent of them. https://www.wmf.org/press-release/moseley-road-baths-transformational-masterplan-moves-forward. Some of the statements about the baths status may not be accurate especially the bit about the only...

Two of the King Edward's Schools in Birmingham are paired (two schools close to each other, one boys, one girls). The main school and Camp Hill have had that for over a century. There used to be two schools together on Stratford Road before the move to Kings Heath. There are also Boy's schools...

For what it's worth, when they started "bringing back vinyl" they also started making separate record players and most of them seem to play 78s if you have them. Nowadays the price on these players has gone up and they also play cassettes and CDs. You used to be able to get them for £30 and now...