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Sad news about The Post Office Vaults, we used to drop in occasionally for a quiet drink, as we had done previously when it was The Royal Mail. Hopefully, as poker-pete82 has suggested above it will re-open at some point. Some photos of it below:

Here's some extracts from Geezer Butler's Ozzy tribute in the Sunday Times (he donated his fee for this, to Birmingham Children's Hospital): The rehearsals for that final show started a month before at a studio in the Oxfordshire countryside. Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and I ran through seven songs...

Sorry, I missed that post Lyn.

I heard on local TV tonight that Ozzy's "Working Class Hero" exhibition at the Museum & Art Gallery, will now remain open until 18th January next year, due to the high visitor levels. That's great news.

My Mom was a clippie on the last day of service on the 78 tram. For anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of riding on a tram, or who wants to jog their memories and in case you didn't know, they still run regularly at the Black Country Living Museum:

Why the hurry to move those floral tributes? :(

Your grandfather used to give me stickers, when I occasionally called in to ask if he had any to spare on the way to Slade Road school (my father had a fruit shop further up the Slade, so I used to walk past it on a daily basis in the 60s). I recall him being friendly and tolerant, with a young...

How tidy the High Street looked then too, as it did back in around 1910?:

As it was and how it may one day look (although the work does seem to be progressing at a snail's pace with the second lane to Lancaster Circus still closed to traffic, whilst yet more "student accommodation" is allegedly still under construction - are there really that many students?):

I couldn't believe the sad news, when my son texted me with it last night. His last show was a fitting tribute though and he gave it everything he had. "Back to the Beginning" it certainly was and once again Birmingham was linked around the world with our Ozzy, as it was again yesterday on the...

Two on Icknield Square in the 60's (we used to have one in our front garden and I remember the street lighter coming around when we were playing football in the street):

It was my future wife that was in the ladies Smudger, not me. :)

I'm another that has seen Roy Wood, in my case in Perry Common and at Sainsbury's. I have also seen Andy Townsend, Ian Taylor, Gordon Cowans and Juan Pablo Angel (all of Villa fame) at local supermarkets. I have sat with Barbara Castle and Douglas Hurd on trains to/from Brum and seen Matt Busby...

The final hammer price was £400 yesterday.

If anyone still has any tickets from concerts that they attended back in the day, you may well be sitting on a gold mine. I noticed the ticket stubs below for Birmingham concerts, are up for auction on Monday at Richard Winterton (Lichfield) and the current bid is £340! ;) The 17 tickets...

My lad came back on Saturday night with his ears ringing, as had been anticipated. :grinning: It was a great day for all those lucky enough to be there and it was so nice that all of the bands took no fee for their performances. Acorns Children's Hospice, Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity...

I dropped my son and his mate off earlier. They have just played a message from Dolly Parton to the audience. So, it's not all heavy metal. ;), but each act is building up the occasion to what will be quite a crescendo (I'm getting regular phone clips), when Sabbath come on at the end. I'm sure...

It began as The Saltley Picture Palace in 1911: