Curl Up & Dye, Vicarage Road, Birmingham

Curl Up & Dye, Vicarage Road, Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder.

It can’t be the best punning shop name in Brum can it? Suggestions please…

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  • John Doherty
    My Brother started a computer cleaning company, (no longer trading),and his girlfriend came up with the clever name..... Byte The Dust
  • Crafts 'n Sew On, Stirchley
  • @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...
  • Derek Belm
    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/fines...

    Memorable food.
  • 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.
  • The Shirley Temple - rather fancy Chinese restaurant
  • This comments thread cannot pass without a mention of the "Shoepermarket" in Walsall.
  • 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...
  • 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/
  • There's a Fags 'n' Mags in Kings Heath too — and a News and Booze up Springfield Rd in Hall Green.
  • 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.
  • My personal favourite is a greasy spoon in the Jewellery Quarter called Gordon Blue. (geddit?)
  • Jack Kirby
    Sadly Adorable Doors of Pebble Mill on the Pershore Road itself - and of course Pebble Mill doesn't mean what it did....
  • A couple of years ago a woman made a collection of photographs of punning haircut shops. Triffic stuff. Can't remember her name though.
  • TS
    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).
  • Melon Cauli - a greengrocers in Great Barr
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