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OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

Next not mentioned previously but sure to bring back memories Yates Wine Lodge and Bottle department possibly number 17 Corporation Street, rather an imposing entrance

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Went into Yates's a few times not the bottle dept, a couple or three dock's of Australian white and yippee we'were away . A good snooker hall upstairs too with 3 or 4 tables and the novelty chalk suspended by string from the ceiling .
 
Ciro of Bond Street and J Marks Furriers, and the entrance to Princes Chambers, note the ornamental entrance and I imagine gold lettering on the windows on the first floor. Went in there once there was the old - to me, iron work lift that you opened and closed the doors yourself and could see out of.

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My mate's girlfriend/wife worked at Ciro in the 60's
 
Suffolk Street Queensway in 1974, the old and the new of the Alexandra Theatre, with Spike Milligan next week. HIFI shop and wine bar and a few half cars, Ford Escort & van and a Hillman Imp. You can also see an old style telephone in an upstairs window

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Late 70's I think it was I along with the wife saw Peter Wyngarde as Dracula here , he took 7 curtain calls that night
 
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I spy the entrance to The Hole in the Wall pub. Spent many an hour in there. Quite often lunch times with an oppo that worked in a camera shop in Martineau Square. Happy days.

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NoddKD Ditto , me and a mate went in there one night late 60's , got in with two girls , they looked at us and thought these look gormless we'll latch onto them . Gormless being the operative word we could't get rid of them even followed us up to the flat where I lived , never again
 
Finally iconic hotel on the Hagley Road The Strathallen Hotel from 1972. Loooking like they had bunch of bricks for a garden refurbishment left over this round building is different. Varied line up of cars out front, those Dolomites on the right? and the "Morse " type Jaguar.

View attachment 154932This hotel opened in the early 79's , the company I worked for had trade shows at any new hotel that opened , there was another two in town one was by Alpha Tower and the other was by the Gaumont I think those were both opened in the 70's also
 
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