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Where is This? 164

Phil

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
Still stopping on theme, I don't think this one will cause any problems. I used this café many times. As far as I know it might be still open. Whenever I used it, it was always packed. The only certain sign of a good café.

Phil

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Phil just logged on might have this one don,t want to spoil it the chase is better than the kill may be on the way to WARWICK Dek.
 
Cotteridge or Kings Heath?

Has anyone noticed the vandals have obliterated the road signs?
 
Not Bordesley Green, not Selly Oak nor Kings Heath. Dek which way would you go to Warwick obviously not the same way as me.

Dek there is one thing you can be sure of, anything I post on this thread will be as far as I know inside the boundaries of Birmingham, if it wasn't when the photo was taken it will be now.

Phil
 
PHIL Just read the rest of the threads on 162 theres some serious competition out there i,m going to have to get a book on old cafe,s between 1950 - 1970. Dek
 
John

I should have made it a provision that you were banned from all these café location posts, as you probably did the signs for most of them.

So which one was it Rookery Rd or Oxhill Rd?

Phil
 
Phil i,m back It,s On the corner of Headingly Rd and Oxhill Rd ,visitors A pest when theres important things to do. Dek
 
Sorry John wrong choice, but I'm going to give you it because your next choice has to be the right one.

Corner of Oxhill Rd & Headingly Rd Handsworth

Was it one of yours? anyway next time if its another cafe you are excluded as you have an unfair advantage.

This is what it looks like today alongside the original If it is still the original Stan then he must be getting on a bit now and the cafe looks like it is as well.

Just noted your post Dek, I'll give you joint first with John I'm sure you won't mind sharing.

Phil

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Phil Not a All John Gave me the vital clue. It,s still there but gone down hill i used it about !2 months ago doing a new Sure Start Nursery at Rookery Rd School. The one i was thinking about in tyseley was opposite Harmo Silencers just off Wharfdale Rd it,s almost identical.Dek
 
See from the menu boards that in July 1967, when the photo was taken

Ham Salad and New Pots 2/9d
Mixed Grill with chips 3/6d

and Clint Eastwood in A Fistfull of Dollars was on at the Villa Cross

Colin
 
I went in this one for lunch once a few years back while in a gap in a 'schools to the playing fields' duty, the food was better than the exterior suggested it might be! Interestingly there were a couple of old photographs of the place on the wall inside, one of which I think was at the time of the last coronation.
 
Lloyd

As I said right at the beginning of this thread. They did good food there and at times you had to fight to get a seat. Bit I think it was around 94 the last time I was in there.

Phil
 
Phil,
Fair play, I did have a better chance than most on this one I used it nearly every day for 3 years.
I was the manager of WR Advertising on Holyhead Rd., next door to the New Inns, and always went there for lunch ( not the New Inns) if I was not on the road.
Favourite was Corned Beef, mash and peas, with a nice little touch of a knob of butter on the mash, like you say, always packed and good food,
he (can't remember his name) stood no nonsense.
A guy came in one day and asked for half egg sandwich, his reply "" and
what am I supposed to do with the other effing half" Well done Dek, looks like you're on your own next time.
 
up the warick rd turn left at the stockfield rd and first left again and dpwn that rd and its down on the left hand side of the rd
facing the exhause factory ,and there is two cafes facing each other
one is very busy the other one is slack
if you go to tysley railway station turn left over the bridge
and take your second right you are there and i think its called redding lane ------ astonion
 
Astonion That was The first one i thought about it,s almost identical but sadly i got shot down in flames. Dek
 
hi im new member just to anyone who remembers stans cafe headingly rd handsworth its still going a bit run down now but still in the family ive been there 25 yrs now and still good food lol
 
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