Archive for September, 2009

Russ nails October, via organised fighting, music, theatre and a sly dig at Julius Caesar.
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Can you "play" with a shopping centre? "Ingredients for playing with include, but are not limited to: 3 levels of shops; the escalators in between; the outdoor bit down the middle; the square next to St. Martin’s church; a department store with some silver discs stuck on it; and a large statue of a...
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  This beautiful building on Oozells Square, just off Broad Street,  was originally a Victorian boarding school.  At other points it became a college and then a furniture store for Birmingham City Council. It was all set for demolition in the 90′s, but it’s life was saved and has been home to the Ikon...
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Pretty much an 1918 version of the Big CIty Plan — including ideas for improving New Street station.
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Ian Edwards found this wonderful looking book in a 2nd hand shop: It contains the words of about a hundred songs — complied in 1915, and dedicated to Mrs Neville Chamberlain — from round these parts. Odd to read of Oldbury, Erdington and Smethwick as having Ladies and Lords, odder for them to have ballads and...
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Day One (24hrs)  18th Sept 2009 starting 7pm. Inspired by the statement below, the PhD show’s mythological think-tank investigation, conducted by Harry Palmer, seeks to discover the relationship between the banana plantation and lost civilisation concerning the Hawaiian Mauna Loa tribesmen and women. Mythological hoaxes have been reported suggesting that banana worship and ecological...
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I do like this BBC WM trail:
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“BiNS’s” radio show , all the Brummie things that matter, plus pirates, geordies, a man in a cage, and vacuuming along to Shergal Farkey:
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“The frontage is a superb example of a neoclassical facade and should not be destroyed,” she said. “The area is suitable for re-development and it would be a shame to lose another traditional building.” Another building that the Council don't see it as a duty to keep.
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