Comments on: If they build it, they will come

By: Lazers

Lazers — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:39:48 +0000

1) A retrospective of the old adverts that encouraged families to move from Birmingham into the new towns. I’m sure that I once saw a great 1960′s art rendition of a sunny day in a park featuring a happy family of four and a deliriously happy looking dog. The tagline was written in jaunty letters above and simply read “The sun always shines in Redditch”. I’m sure that the ASA will be having words.

2) A ‘whack-a-mole’ type game with a skyline of Birmingham. They give you a foam mallet and you get to flatten the ugly buildings that were belched up when some clever so and so discovered concrete.

3) A set of canal cross sections that show the Worcester to Birmingham over the years… Starting as a perfect solution to industrial transport problems and the elegant solutions along the route, then as a great place to put shopping trolleys, prophylactics and eels, and as it seems now, quite picturesque again in most places.

4) A man with a face as long as Livery Street (did anyone else get told that expression?)

5) A design competition to show how New Street could look, and how it once looked before concrete. Plus a use for the other platforms at Moor Street.

By: bounder

bounder — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:36:12 +0000

I didn’t know hedgehog-flavoured crisps were Brum-specific? If so – a great addition.

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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:33:30 +0000

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By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:08:29 +0000

How could you! You forgot the hedgehog-flavoured crisps.