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    Exchange Restaurant Stephenson Place

    Same pub, in the corner... bottom of taxi rank on The ramp
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    Exchange Restaurant Stephenson Place

    The downstairs became pub called The Gilded Cage
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    Magnum Hotel Union Passage

    The Magnum hotel ,off New St, was a department store...not Greys which was in Bull St, but Marshall and Snellgroves, high end store....had various names ..Britania Hotel ......cheap & cheerful for city centre....very near New St station....I was black cab driver from 1974 ....nightmare to pick...
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    The Emerald Club was in Green Lane Small Heath, on right going out of city. Originally it was on opposite side of road on the corner, premises that used to be Sam Rams strip club The club at top end of Broad St was Peppermint Place
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    Birmingham characters

    How could we forget Nelly Kelly, who sold flowers city centre and Witton cemetery on Sundays ...always got cab ...her and all her flowers...easier on way back after she sold most of them ...memories
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    Sparkhill

    Hi The Club above Burton's tailors was called The John Mitchell Club.......Irish club...as were all in area at the time...Cascade club had roof colapse under snow one winter........owned by Mickey Riley ..... King was his doorman and Desi
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    The daddy long legs club

    1970's....The International Club was in Lawden Road or nearby... by railway arches... a public house ( can't remember name ) was a few doors away on same side of road.......road now gone under Bordesley circus / A45 intersection ...was owned by Bunny Johnson the famous boxer of his day...didn't...
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    Chelmsley Wood Pubs

    These are the facts about Chemsley Wood pubs Chemsley had 15 pubs from the start 7 Ansells pubs 7 M&B pubs 1 Davenport pub
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    The daddy long legs club

    Old Clubs..(.drinking dens) I used in 1970;s Birmingham 1 Daddy Long Legs Digbeth 2 Jig-Saw .. Alum Rock Road 3 Golden Gloves ... Moseley Road 4 Speak Easy .. Stratford Place (Moseley Road) Camp Hill 5 Garry Owen Small Heath 6 Talk of the Town Stratford Road Sparkhill 7 Cascade Club...
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    Fred Dawkins Cafe Highgate Road Balsall Heath

    in 1968 I was a plumbers mate on a motorbike (BSA 650cc) and sidecar with all tools in it. The builders yard was in Brunswick road. First stop every morning at 7.30 am was Freds cafe... no waiting...just walked in and poured yourself a tea from hid famous push tea urn........
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    Harrisons Insurance Brokers

    The Pink Elephant club, Bromsgrove St, became The Ringway club.....then moved to Small Heath as Garryowen club...the rest is history ,as they say My accountant was Lee Harrison ,in 1970/80 a brother, of Diddington Manor Nr Stonebridge island , Kenilworth Rd three Harrison brothers an...
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    Yes Oxford Club was the bar in Oxford Hotel Moseley....yes open all day if your face was known.... Odd Spot Exeter St ,Holloway Head, afternoon drinking club ,mainly market traders , run by Trudy , became the Hot Spot when all day opening of pubs happened...and so became a strip club ..run by...
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    Pollyanna's, Newhall Street

    Pollyanna's in Newhall St was run by Don Fewtrell alone, and not by Eddie and hid brothers..had a very nice doorman called "Black John" who loved th dink Brandy ,just a single will do if you asked if he wanted a drink....he always got a double ,Don ended going to Spain with Nina, who worked at...
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    Pubs Of The Past

    The oldest pub in Birmingham is The Green Man or Lad in the Lane....same pub in Erdington Tom
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    Birmingham Lighting Department

    Just to say that in the 1970/80"s all Hackney's (Black cabs ) were taken to the old Public Lighting Depot building in Cambridge Street, for their annual fitness to work inspection fora licence to operate as taxi in Birmingham Tom
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    The daddy long legs club

    These are the facts about club at High St Deritend (Digbeth) and Coventry Road It started of as The Dolls club....a strip club that had football style turn styles to get in.... after that it became The Delcomica club.... Irish owned Then it became Daddy Long Legs.... owned by Jim Smythe.... a...
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    Pubs Of The Past

    When the Bull was demolished it moved across the Coventry Rd into old police station....hence new name of Old Bill & Bull.............
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