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    An Evening with Carl Chinn 3 September 2024

    I bumped into Carl at Euston Square Tube Station on Saturday on the way to Wembley (the less said about the game the better). Carl shook my hand with his usual smile. "An afternoon moment with Carl Chinn" and not quite as informative as several evenings I have spent listening to him I admit, but...
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    Happy birthday Lloyd

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    David Bowie in Birmingham

    Bowie at the Town Hall in 1972 (photos by Mick Rock who like boilerman was new to the job). Mick shot his very first images of David backstage and then continued to photograph the fledgling Ziggy throughout the show. The pair clicked immediately, and Mick travelled back to Haddon Hall with...
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    another change to the city centre

    & those awful e scooters. Is the aim to make the city centre a no-go zone unless you ride a bike or use public transport? As has been said, I would have thought there were bigger priorities than this.
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    OLDEST AND YOUNGEST BHF MEMBERS

    I'm not near as good at darts as that John. ;)
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    Golden Boys

    We went to the Rep this week and it was nice to see the statue back in place again, but I'm with Oldbrit as far as the "gold finish" is concerned. It looks much too bright for it's surroundings and it is almost as if a couple of tins of gold paint had turned up, and it was decided that they...
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    Richard Chamberlain

    Richard died following a stroke, aged 90. Here he's pictured as Dr Kildaire (1 & 2) and in 1988 as Jason Bourne, in The Bourne Identity (3):
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    Crooked house

    The only thing that surprises me, is that it took them (Adam & Carly Taylor) so long to play the liquidation card. They have form for this sort of thing :( (see below taken from The Times 9/8/23): "It now appears that the couple have a history of apparently ignoring planning permission...Mr...
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    Costermonger pub

    Sad to see those shops closed so suddenly. Places like The Costermonger, The Cabin and The Oasis market will be replaced by something new, with the city centre becoming increasingly unrecognisable from what it was. I see the 'new neighbourhood' will include more than 1,000 homes and office...
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    Council House Birmingham

    Inside the Council House (1 -The Banqueting Suite & 2 -The Glass Corridor):
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    Who do you think you are? 2025

    I like the programme format, but the so called "celebrities" seem to be becoming increasingly unfamiliar with each series. I would recognise the face of Layton Williams from "Bad Education" from when Jack Whitehall was in it. Fred Sirieix used to be a maître d'hôtel (restaurant - front of house...
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    Scams: telephone, email, texts 2025

    I had an e-mail supposedly from Amazon today. It was headed from: "info@inmoalcor.ec" which looked a little dodgy to me, as did the focus on the back of a random card, which was at the head of the e-mail, suggesting what sort of information they might be after from me. I won't be sending them...
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    Speedway. Perry Barr.

    I heard on Central News last night, that there are concerns that the new Speedway season may be the Brummies last. The lease on the track expires next year and like at Cradley and Wolverhampton, speedway may cease on the site, the same would be the case for greyhound racing too. Developers want...
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    Heavyweight boxing legend George Foreman dies aged 76

    A tremendous boxer. He really packed a punch and the blows he landed on Joe Frazier, actually lifted him off the floor. To have three such fantastic fighters (pictured below) slugging it out against each other, really was a golden age for heavyweight boxing. He later showed a real sense of...
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    Old street pics..

    This looks like it. It is taken from the "Bull Street" thread and was posted by Vivienne on page 5 #129:
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