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Sad that speedway will no longer be available in Birmingham. Still it makes room for yet further development, so the council will be ecstatic that the sport won't get in the way of their proposals. :(

I took my now wife there to see "Chariots of Fire". It was very sad to see the uses the old cinema was put to, after it had stopped showing films.

Yes, another sad loss Mark. Jake became a driving instructor after he hung up his boots and got many a Streetly youngster through their driving test (including my son). He was a little surprised, that I remembered him from his time at Villa, when I shook his hand before a lesson about 16 years...

Sadly we lost the last of our FA Cup winning team of 1957 on Sunday, when Peter McParland passed away, aged 91. Peter scored both of Villa's goals in our 2-1 Wembley win against Manchester United's "Busby Babes". Peter's brace of goals brought the cup back to Villa Park for what was then, a...

The impact this has on the Cross City line is worth noting. Each time this happens the line is closed both ways whilst safety checks are carried out and then there is the costs of police/fire brigade attendance. I wonder if those responsible are being billed?

Yet again a lorry has struck the low railway bridge on Summer Road, Erdington. Cross City line trains were again suspended on 30th April. See the photograph below, my previous post #693 and the link to the Birmingham Live report of the latest crash: Link...

I bumped into Carl at Euston Square Tube Station on Saturday on the way to Wembley (the less said about the game the better). Carl shook my hand with his usual smile. "An afternoon moment with Carl Chinn" and not quite as informative as several evenings I have spent listening to him I admit, but...

Bowie at the Town Hall in 1972 (photos by Mick Rock who like boilerman was new to the job). Mick shot his very first images of David backstage and then continued to photograph the fledgling Ziggy throughout the show. The pair clicked immediately, and Mick travelled back to Haddon Hall with...

& those awful e scooters. Is the aim to make the city centre a no-go zone unless you ride a bike or use public transport? As has been said, I would have thought there were bigger priorities than this.

I'm not near as good at darts as that John. ;)

No it isn't.

We went to the Rep this week and it was nice to see the statue back in place again, but I'm with Oldbrit as far as the "gold finish" is concerned. It looks much too bright for it's surroundings and it is almost as if a couple of tins of gold paint had turned up, and it was decided that they...

Richard died following a stroke, aged 90. Here he's pictured as Dr Kildaire (1 & 2) and in 1988 as Jason Bourne, in The Bourne Identity (3):

The only thing that surprises me, is that it took them (Adam & Carly Taylor) so long to play the liquidation card. They have form for this sort of thing :( (see below taken from The Times 9/8/23): "It now appears that the couple have a history of apparently ignoring planning permission...Mr...

Sad to see those shops closed so suddenly. Places like The Costermonger, The Cabin and The Oasis market will be replaced by something new, with the city centre becoming increasingly unrecognisable from what it was. I see the 'new neighbourhood' will include more than 1,000 homes and office...