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  1. Barr_Beacon

    Parisian Club Cannon Street

    The Parisian was an M&B pub. If you look at the photograph the M&B logo can be clearly seen to the left of the entrance. Eddie Fewtrell owned night clubs and wine bars in and around Birmingham. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-60382766 The Parisian became 'Cagney's' around...
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    Parisian Club Cannon Street

    Thanks for that, the picture on the right brought back some memories! Must go now, some dust seems to have settled in my eye...
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    “Work .. is a four letter word” film

    You might be interested in this.... https://www.reelstreets.com/films/privilege/
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    “Work .. is a four letter word” film

    Found some stills from this a while back...
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    Witton Road

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    Shadwell Street

    This was my old school, St Chad's Junior. I left in 1968 when my house in Allesley Street was the subject of a Compulsory Purchase Order for the building of The Aston Expressway. The pavement behind the motor-cycle had quite a slope. It used to fill me with fear in winter it because it got iced...
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    Birmingham Films And Videos

    Birmingham mid-Seventies, starts at 1m 40s
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    Birmingham Films And Videos

    Birmingham 1970s
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    Lucas Great King Street memories

    Knocking off time, 1984...
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    The Longboat, Cambrian Wharf

    Kingston Row near entrance of The Longboat...
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    Writings of member Barr_Beacon

    If you look to the left of me you can see the houses on the left. What you can't see is the Back to Backs in The Courts at the end of the entries. There were several families who lived in each court. Each court had a Wash House and a couple of outside toilets for the use of all the people who...
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    Writings of member Barr_Beacon

    I lived at 15 Stratford Place, the entrance of was literally to the left of Mrs Crowe's shop, it took literally less than half a minute to leave my house and walk in her shop!
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    The Turks Head Lancaster Street closed

    I remember travelling back home each evening on the 33 in the hot summer of 1976 along the Birchfield Road and looking enviously through the doors of The Bull's Head at the old blokes having a cold pint. Despite the all the windows and the bus doors being open, it was like travelling in a...
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    Writings of member Barr_Beacon

    Me posing in Allesley Street 1966 /67...
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    She was absolutely hilarious as the flirty seaside landlady in 'One Foot in the Grave'!
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    Don't forget Sloopys on Corporation Street by The Crown. In 1979 I remember Andy Gray unsuccessfully trying to chat up a girl there and exclaiming, "Don't you know who I am!" I was also in Mr Moon's when John Forgeham (Jim Baines from Crossroads) was making a nuisance of himself with the girls...
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    The Turks Head Lancaster Street closed

    Makes you wonder about The Athletes Village in Perry Barr.
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    The Turks Head Lancaster Street closed

    That's sparked off a couple of memories, Lyn ("Nurse, he's out of his bed again!")... I have vague memories of Go Go Dancers dancing in cages in The Gilded Cage in Stephenson Street (but that could be a Brew XI flashback) in the early / mid 70s. Also, I definitely remember a friend of mine...
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    The Turks Head Lancaster Street closed

    Found these photographs of the opening of the Turk's Head in November, 1969
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    Writings of member Barr_Beacon

    I had a good brain but as the saying goes, "Youth is wasted on the young." I got my CSE's from Secondary Modern and had quite a few jobs over the years ranging from working as a machine operative at The Dunlop (I spent a week in The Pit!) to being a labourer then assistant storeman at Newman...
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