Curl Up & Dye, Vicarage Road, Birmingham
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It can’t be the best punning shop name in Brum can it? Suggestions please…
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on 9 May 2008 at 12:26 pm Shona wrote:
Melon Cauli - a greengrocers in Great Barr
on 9 May 2008 at 4:14 pm TS wrote:
OK, it’s Black Country, but Halesowen has it’s very own “Hairs-owen”. Slightly off the barber’s theme are Lye’s “Spice of Lyefe” (balti house) and (sadly now defunkt) “Lyebrary” (bookshop).
on 9 May 2008 at 6:38 pm brendadada wrote:
A couple of years ago a woman made a collection of photographs of punning haircut shops. Triffic stuff. Can’t remember her name though.
on 9 May 2008 at 11:21 pm Jack Kirby wrote:
Sadly Adorable Doors of Pebble Mill on the Pershore Road itself - and of course Pebble Mill doesn’t mean what it did….
on 10 May 2008 at 7:32 am Josh Hart wrote:
My personal favourite is a greasy spoon in the Jewellery Quarter called Gordon Blue. (geddit?)
on 10 May 2008 at 3:41 pm fatboyfat wrote:
Not a pun as such, but I was always quite taken with the tobacconist/newsagent “Fags ‘n’ Mags” up by the Fox & Goose.
Sadly no longer trading, I think, but at least it did what it said on the tin.
on 10 May 2008 at 3:47 pm bounder wrote:
There’s a Fags ‘n’ Mags in Kings Heath too — and a News and Booze up Springfield Rd in Hall Green.
on 11 May 2008 at 5:13 pm Craig wrote:
Not a shop as such, but this is surely Birmingham’s best-named company….if ever I need landscape gardening I’m using these guys.
http://www.acewithspades.co.uk/
on 12 May 2008 at 8:32 pm fatboyfat wrote:
bounder: that’s excellent news. Little things like this make me strangely happy.
Craig: funnily enough, I actually need some fencing doing. I’m seriously tempted…
on 14 May 2008 at 5:58 am Russ L wrote:
This comments thread cannot pass without a mention of the “Shoepermarket” in Walsall.
on 14 May 2008 at 8:16 am brendadada wrote:
The Shirley Temple - rather fancy Chinese restaurant
on 14 May 2008 at 8:43 am bounder wrote:
Just along the Stratford Rd from the Shirley Temple is ‘Fill The Shoe’ — which I always take to be a pun but is it? I’ve no idea what it’s actually a pun of.
Nearby (by the Robin Hood Island) is the beautifully non-punning ‘Food Cafe’ too.
on 15 May 2008 at 11:39 am Derek Belm wrote:
We have just had a guest chef appearance at our local inn by the well-known Birmingham cook who runs the restaurant-cum-adult video shop Plates and Porn.
http://derekbelm.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/finest-dining-in-the-midlands/
Memorable food.
on 16 May 2008 at 10:57 pm Shona wrote:
@bounder ‘Fill The Shoe’…flippin’ ippin’! I do hope it’s a shoe shop - think Cinderella and the glass slipper, perhaps? If it’s a restaurant it could be a particularly worrying mistranslation…
on 29 May 2008 at 1:32 pm Billy wrote:
Crafts ‘n Sew On, Stirchley