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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...

I know the feeling Lyn, I'm not up to the mosh pit myself :grinning: . I'm sure there will be seats available on the sides of the ground, from which there will be a decent view (I'm relying on it).

If I can get tickets, then I am definitely going. Brilliant news. Link to Aston Villa site: https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/february/05/black-sabbath-announce--back-to-the-beginning--at-villa-park/

Brian with his wife Linda (1), with his screen wife Yootha Joyce (2), with Kathy Staff (3), with the "Man about the House cast" (4), with Paula Wilcox last year (5) and on "This is Your Life" in 1998 (6). Thanks for all those sit-com laughs & RIP:

Frank Skinner often mentions the Tipton Slasher (1 below- statue @ Coronation Gardens) and the remains of his pet monkey, which is to be found at The Black Country Living Museum (2 below - "not for the squeamish, sorry" :eek: ) and can be viewed during their store tours.

It was used as a First Aid point for the Handsworth area during WW2:

Or perhaps it's a case of "What happens in The Dome stays in The Dome" :cool:

Ozzy made an appearance on the Holte End (see below) before Villa's 4-2 win over Celtic on Wednesday evening, which takes the club into the last 16 of the Champions League.

The Moody Blues at the Carlton in 1964:

When visiting Oban (where my wife spent many of her school holidays, staying with relatives) we always popped into "Oban Fish & Chips". It really is delicious stuff (photos below), where they take your order and they then cook it for you. We really need to try to support our local fish & chip...

It is shocking to walk down the streets and visit the areas that we knew so well now and to see them so changed, rarely for the better in my opinion, Paul. I remember my father saying much the same to me forty something years ago and listening intently as a boy, to my Nan telling me in...

The athlete's village at Perry Barr was the main topic on BBC Midlands News last night (see link below). A report is to be discussed at a cabinet meeting on 21/1. Debts of between £142m and £152m were expected to remain unpaid. The report added: "The cost of repaying and servicing this debt...

Sadly I understand that it's been closed by The National Trust now :rolleyes: , but the sweet shop in Hurst Street by the Hippodrome (see below), used to remind me of those childhood corner sweet shops. I often dropped in there for the odd quarter of troach drops (ok I admit it, 1/2 pound), when...