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  1. Barr_Beacon

    Birmingham Cinemas

    ...and there's more... https://www.jncohen.net/JaceyGroup/JosephCohen.htm https://www.jncohen.net/JaceyGroup/JaceyCinemasLtd.htm
  2. Barr_Beacon

    Birmingham Cinemas

    Look at what I found... https://www.britishpathe.com/video/new-cinephone-opened-aka-the-cinephone-cinema-birm
  3. Barr_Beacon

    Pollyanna's, Newhall Street

    I always liked the music in Pollyanna's. This is from the 70's, sorry I cant be more specific when:
  4. Barr_Beacon

    St Chads Schools

    Crikey, those photographs have taken my breath away! I can still remember my father leading me up Brearley Street from Newtown Row with a scarf wrapped around my face because of the thick smog. I can still smell the metal in the 'air' and hear the regular beat of the machines from the...
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    College Arms College Road Kingstanding

    Thanks for getting back to me, Alan. The bloke I knew was a couple of years older than me and other than football, I didn't really know him. I was a regular in The College up until 1981 and I don't recall seeing him around then.
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    College Arms College Road Kingstanding

    I used to play football with a Steve Roydes (Rhodes?) in the park off College Road, close to Twickenham Road. I think he worked as a taxi driver for a while.
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    1970's PUBS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

    The Grapevine https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/warwickshire/birmingham_b3_grapevine.html
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    Commonwealth Games, Birmingham 2022

    The city is already paying a hefty price for these games. It's not only the resulting traffic jams and the loss of the train station but the potential damage to our history and natural environment . https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/archaeologists-dig-sutton-park-ahead-20523858...
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    Great Charles Street Queensway car stunt

    Any ideas if this was for a film or television show...
  10. Barr_Beacon

    Parisian Club Cannon Street

    Fanny's later became UB's (I think some of the band members bought it), I went in there a few times but The Bodega was under The Filibuster. I only went in there once and seem to remember it was decorated like a traditional Spanish bar with the ends of large barrels stuck on the walls. I only...
  11. Barr_Beacon

    Parisian Club Cannon Street

    That was it! Memories coming back to me now trying to suppress adolescent sniggers as I walked by it with my girlfriend. I'm sure I went to a bar once under The Filibuster called 'The Bodega', can you shed any light on that?
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    I remember their was a Daddy Long Legs Club by the flyover in the Seventies but based on the stories I heard about the place I never had the nerve to go there. Speaking of strange clubs...I worked at Newman Tonks in the Seventies and I recall after a strike meeting (I think it was late 1978) we...
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    Pubs Of The Past

    Who was 'Burlington'? There was Burlington Street and Burlington School nearby. In Birmingham, there is the MacDonald Burlington Hotel (formerly The Midland Hotel) and there was a passage through it known as Burlington Passage (it split Hudson's Bookshop in two).
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    Pubs Of The Past

    Looking at the unusual brickwork, I think you may be correct. Here is my photograph of Burlington Hall taken in the 1960s (the sign over the door says, 'Burlington Hall, Neighbourhood Centre'):
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    Then & Now - Roy Wood

    You might find this potted biography of Mike Burney of some interest Maurice... https://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.com/2014/11/britain-is-no-longer-country-for-and_16.html
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    1987 Car Birmingham Journey

    When I came home from school I used to find small strips of film reel by the side door of the cinema. How old was The Newtown Palace?
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    1987 Car Birmingham Journey

    Thanks' for that, Lyn. It suddenly occurred to me that I worked at Fine Fare, a supermarket in (Lynton Square?) Perry Barr Shopping Centre where I was a 'trainee manager' (shopping trolley rounder upper). I lasted two weeks! The picture house on the corner of Newtown Row and New John St was...
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    1987 Car Birmingham Journey

    Apologies if this has been posted before.
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