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Barbarella's : Bands from March to May 1974....where has the time gone?

Mazeppa was a poem about a Polish nobleman by Lord Byron.

You might find this useful... https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/warwickshire/birmingham.html

The Cross Guns, Rodway Close, Newtown was a Davenports pub. I found an interesting account of the pub by Jane Fletcher who once ran the pub. Her story is contained in the link below: https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/warwickshire/birmingham_b19_crossguns.html

Saw the demolition in progress today coming from the Fish Market. The pub was 'The Royal George'.

You wait for one bus to come along and then...

I really am overjoyed at finding this photograph but I have to admit thinking what the character in the window is doing.

Can't contain myself, this is the photograph I have been searching for for years! The car parked outside is a Ford Capri Mk 1, so it dates it around 1972/3.

The Rotunda Subway... ...The things I did to get my Two Tones and Staypressed from Nelson House.

For those of you nostalgic for BRMB, you might be interested in this... https://www.mds975.co.uk/Content/brmb02.html Warning! Listening to all the recordings on this page will make you yearn for the past...

I'v posted this photograph of The Winsor in Cannon St from 1976 previously, sadly it only shows only the pub sign (which was the M & B plastic 'box' common at the time. Hopefully I'll find a photograph that shows the actual pub itself.

Terence Rigby was an actor and was born Erdington and attended St. Philip's Grammar School in Edgbaston. He appeared in a lot of British television from the 1960s right up to his death in 2008. Played the role of Roy Bland with distinction in the exceptional drama , Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy...

Can anyone provide me with a list of Davenport's pubs? Two in particular have been driving me mad. 1. What was the name of the Davenport's pub close to St Andrews (I have a feeling it was near Garrison Lane). 2. Was there a Davenport's pub near the bus routes 14, 93, 94 or 55 within a radius...

The pub was called The Punch Bowl, it was a Bank's pub who later renamed it The Unspoilt by Progess. Can't find any photographs for it yet.

This is only the second photograph I have found, taken around 1984.

The lounge at the Needless Alley entrance did have a tartan carpet but you're quite correct in saying the downstairs lounge at The Golden Eagle also had a tartan carpet.

There was 'The Vine' at the top of Bracebridge Street near Aston Road that my father drank in. The Vine is the white building that sticks out on the right of photograph beside the first parked car. Aston Road can be seen on the far right of the photograph.

As the lawyer on Alan Partridge said, "I rest my case".

Barbarella's was definitely in Cumberland Street. Eddie Fewtrell did own a club on John Bright Street called Rebecca's, it was on three floors.