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I've checked through what I have of the old BSFG newsletters and this is a rough timeline The first bookshop opened in August 1971 at Old Hill In November 1973 the shop moved to 57 Summer Row then to 84 Suffolk St in December 1981 and finally to 2-5 Suffolk St although I don't yet have the date...

Andromeda went through 3 different locations over time. I could probably find out when and what the addresses were from the old BSFG newsletters - many of which you could find elsewhere on the internet anyway. It was run by Rog Peyton almost to the end. Part of that time Dave Holmes was next in...

I don't remember UFP cons in Birmingham although I went to a lot of others in the city through the 80s and 90s. Maybe I was never that much of a trekkie. I'm not sure if Rog Peyton (he owned the shop) is still around anywhere but around the time he left the BSFG (they are still about) he wrote a...

This showed up on the Heritage Week Events this year https://birminghamheritageweek.co.uk/event/golden-lion-cannon-hill-park/ As you can't safely go in to the building, everything's outside but it's a history of the Golden Lion with something on what they plan on doing with it in future if they...

They charge to visit the special exhibitions (Gas Hall/Water Hall) but they're all that's open at the moment. There's a date for opening the whole thing (late October) but nothing is said about admission fees.

Here's another recent report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c978l19l6rro

Something else that might be of interest https://www.desmond-morris.com/ There was a TV documentary a few years back calling him "The last of the surrealists" - he was the last of the Birmingham group still alive - and there are clips of various things available on the site. There's nothing on...

A few years back there was an exhibition of photgraphs at a local gallery of pictures taken by an American student centred on one woman who lived on Varna Road in the 60s. Not all of the pictures are of Varna Road but some are. Here is some detail about the story...

I may have said this before but this link should find you a lot of old radio shows. https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series_all It's not perfect. Part of the problem is that they like the original title of the show rather than what you remember it as. For examp;le, this is in the T's on the...

Since this is an image scanned from a flyer what appears to be a link to midland ancestors shop will not work and there's no way of telling the web address. For those who think of going note that the word "King" is one line down from where it should actually be.

For what it's worth I ised to go to IT trade shows at the NEC back in the 90s. At one point Dr Solomon was there running his stand and I may have talked to him. Trouble was that in those days the internet was still dial-up and the computers I was dealing with were mostly dumb terminals that had...

For what it's worth there's a site that lists events at the various museums and galleries at https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/ I don't know if your membership gets you in to paid events but it should show what's open somewhere if it's got that bad.

If nothing else, this thread should show more detail. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/bham-works-amateur-football-association.47138/ It also has shinier versions of the medals from different years.

Almost everything described could also be down to a fault with the internet connection. If that's the problem check that the relevant plugs haven't come loose and if you have a powered box that everything comes through, you might want to try switching it off, waiting a minute, and switching it...

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.7&lat=52.46508&lon=-1.88225&layers=175&b=3&o=100 The above link should take you to a map from the turn of the (19th/20th) century. If I've got this right you should see the goods station at the top with a web of different lines going off the main one. At...

I tried looking for details on the Lidl laptop scam recently and came up with this page. Did you know Which run a standard scam alert page? https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/the-latest-scam-alerts-from-which-aBRLy2b02WkC

I live in a sheltered housing block. One of the residents buys stuff from amazon on a regular basis but they leave the packages just inside the door to the block rather than take it up to her flat on the second floor.

It's a while since I've been in there. I think it's been closed for long periods of time between owners several times in my life and probably quite a few before that. Apparently it's been mostly rebuilt a few times and, obviously, they've entirely changed the furniture since I was last there. I...

This is the full listing from the voter's register for 103 Varna from 1951 to 1955. Something must have changed in 1951 because that list is named 1951-2 whereas all the others are just a single year. 1951-52 Bartlett, Frank J Bartlett, Lily Brien, Timothy J Brien, May Tattum, David G Tattum...

Had to go into the centre of town today so I looked this up. John H Edwards is listed in both 1953 & 1954. I'd guess there were 4 or more flats since most of the time from 51-55 there are 3 married couples and up to two singles. In 1955 It's down to the Bartletts and one other.