Comments on: Curl Up & Dye, Vicarage Road, Birmingham

By: John Doherty

John Doherty — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:56:20 +0000

My Brother started a computer cleaning company, (no longer trading),and his girlfriend came up with the clever name….. Byte The Dust

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:32:24 +0000

Crafts 'n Sew On, Stirchley

By: Shona

Shona — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:57:23 +0000

@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…

By: Derek Belm

Derek Belm — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:39:04 +0000

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.

By: bounder

bounder — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:43:41 +0000

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.

By: brendadada

brendadada — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:16:29 +0000

The Shirley Temple – rather fancy Chinese restaurant

By: Russ L

Russ L — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:58:04 +0000

This comments thread cannot pass without a mention of the “Shoepermarket” in Walsall.

By: fatboyfat

fatboyfat — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:32:30 +0000

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…

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:13:39 +0000

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/

By: bounder

bounder — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:47:43 +0000

There’s a Fags ‘n’ Mags in Kings Heath too — and a News and Booze up Springfield Rd in Hall Green.

By: fatboyfat

fatboyfat — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:41:58 +0000

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.

By: Josh Hart

Josh Hart — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:32:40 +0000

My personal favourite is a greasy spoon in the Jewellery Quarter called Gordon Blue. (geddit?)

By: Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:21:20 +0000

Sadly Adorable Doors of Pebble Mill on the Pershore Road itself – and of course Pebble Mill doesn’t mean what it did….

By: brendadada

brendadada — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:38:19 +0000

A couple of years ago a woman made a collection of photographs of punning haircut shops. Triffic stuff. Can’t remember her name though.

By: TS

TS — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:14:30 +0000

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).

By: Shona

Shona — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:26:04 +0000

Melon Cauli – a greengrocers in Great Barr