from, oddly, the council’s new Facebook page.
An elderly WM Travel advert, with some sped up Perry Barr garage cleaning. I can still smell those yellow tartan seat coverings. Ta Pete, and found by Ian duncan.
from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Birmingham Bullring Shopping Centre TV advert from 1985 (via Brumcast)
Get the Flash Player to see this content. From MACE: “Tony Maycock interview with Mike Shanley, Birmingham garage owner, who has bought the statue of King Kong to stand it in his car sales forecourt.” a clip of ATV Today 18/09/1972 Remarkably hash tone for such a fluffy news item ‘doesn’t King Kong Kars sound a bit crap’? I’m paraphrasing. *okay it’s ATV Today, and not News At Ten. This is Trevor McDoughnut…
Where Has the Money Gone? New video by The Destroyers. From Sparkbrook dole office, to the roofs of the Square Mile…
Lovely documentary about The Diskery — 40 years old and one of Birmingham’s best record shops. As the record stores disappear, treasure one that has lasted so long.
Pointed out on Twitter over the weekend is that the opening titles of Childrens’ ITV ‘classic’ Woof! (plot: boy turns into dog at inopportune moments — Billy’s Boots with more fleas) are set in luscious King’s Heath. The dog wanders down the High Street and surprises a vicar who’s hanging around the toilets on the corner of Vicarage Road. Also the setting for this classic bit of filming.
