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Dionysius//88
master brummie
Mike have you got a map that shows where the Victoria Inn was situated please . I'd like to know where it was and what I missed ?
Dionysius//88
master brummie
Thank you very much Mike
move the blue dot to see that that part of rushton st where the pub was has now gone and taken up by road way
yes thats right sparks...when we look at the scottish maps we can see just how much change there has been over the years...no wonder i do not know the city anymore
lyn
Hi
It was most likely when they did the big roundabout and underpass where Broad St. meets the Hagley Road. I think it was known locally as five ways.
I recently did a Google Map fly through of the areas I grew up in or worked in and I didn't recognise anything. Last time I was there I came off the Bristol Road to cut across Smallbrook Ringway and finished up in New St railway station. The bit of road I wanted was a big hole.
I was also stopped for speeding in an area that used to be 40MPH in a Land Rover with a Hypodermic Needle sticking in the demister pipe. Good fun explaning to a copper that it was for injecting the sheep when they have scours after turning out onto fresh grass. The scours is the oposite to contipation was all I was prepared to tell him. when he couldn't pronounce the Name of the Village, said it looked like unchy munchy, and my MOT was written in Welsh, after a brief conversation on his radio conceded the paperwork would give him nightmares we were sent on our way with instructions to stick to 30 MPH..... if in doubt 30 in a 40 will atract less attension
Brian
It was most likely when they did the big roundabout and underpass where Broad St. meets the Hagley Road. I think it was known locally as five ways.
I recently did a Google Map fly through of the areas I grew up in or worked in and I didn't recognise anything. Last time I was there I came off the Bristol Road to cut across Smallbrook Ringway and finished up in New St railway station. The bit of road I wanted was a big hole.
I was also stopped for speeding in an area that used to be 40MPH in a Land Rover with a Hypodermic Needle sticking in the demister pipe. Good fun explaning to a copper that it was for injecting the sheep when they have scours after turning out onto fresh grass. The scours is the oposite to contipation was all I was prepared to tell him. when he couldn't pronounce the Name of the Village, said it looked like unchy munchy, and my MOT was written in Welsh, after a brief conversation on his radio conceded the paperwork would give him nightmares we were sent on our way with instructions to stick to 30 MPH..... if in doubt 30 in a 40 will atract less attension
Brian