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Selfridges have a large mural of the young Black Sabbath inside, near menswear. They also have a very large yellow bull, similar to the one in the Bullring, but not made of bronze. Good to see the band and Birmingham celebrated!

Are you near Cody's Italian shop in Bearwood? They close Mondays, but authentic produce.

Royal Photographic Society Electroplating and the Daguerreotype with Jo Gane This is a detailed video of an hour. Feb 2024.

I was the labourer, I confess! Derek

It looks as if being a patent-agent paid well!

Yes, that's him!

Piccalilli and a few jars of mincemeat made today, the mustard pickle will be crunchy. Delicious!

I think that aside from historians of photography like the much missed Pete James few people had heard of him. George Shaw (1818 -1904) was born in Dudley and buried in Key Hill. (I think as I'd never heard of him either.) Derek

An interesting way to display the exhibition outside, I guess it may be seen by passers-by who wouldn't enter a gallery or museum. A technical paper by Jo Gane is here: https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/photography-and-electroplate-in-1840s-birmingham/#abstract 'Photography and...

Pork pie for Christmas breakfast was a treat and doesn't require any cooking on a morning when lots of cooking would be done? On ordinary days Mom would have weetabix with jam and hot milk, I gather Dad ate grape nuts. I much preferred pork pie to these horrors! We have pork pie still at...

CAMRA reports the Kings Head pub closed long term on 12 Feb 2025. Its future is uncertain. The Evening Mail carried the story https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/birmingham-pub-amazing-food-suddenly-30996576 :(

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Scibod!

I never knew that Chemico was made in Birmingham. Mom used the pink household cleaner to clean the stove, pots and pans and the Belfast sink. Its smell is evocative and not unpleasant. I think that in the UK it is now sold as 'The Pink Stuff', but retains its original branding in South Africa.

The Crown Hotel has its own thread. We hope it can be saved, but it is on the corner of Station St which is under threat of redevelopment. It would make a great music venue - good to know Mark Knopfler played there. Still closed at the moment.

I'm so sorry to read this news, condolences to Chris's family.

Your grandfather commissioned Ernő Goldfinger, a leading architect of the Modernist movement, to design the company offices in 1955/6. 'Goldfinger House' is a grade 11 listed building and currently refurbished and maintained. photo 2010.

I've been lucky enough to see two concerts at Birmingham Symphony Hall this year. The folkie Roy Harper now in his 80s. And last night, Simon Rattle conducting his new band the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra playing Schumann's second symphony and the highlight for me, Stravinsky's ballet...

The Imperial War Museum's site gives basic information only.https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17324

'Witton Wall' was constructed after the First World War, with 12 names being added after WW2 to 'commemorate those Second World War casualties buried in graves that could not be marked individually.' Most memorials were constructed in the 1920s. You can read about the memorial on the...

Happy Birthday Lyn, and thanks for all your work here! Derek