Posts Tagged ‘ Aston Villa ’

It’s Chico Time

It’s Chico Time

Chico Hamilton that is. Intelligent football magazine When Saturday Comes prints in each issue a photo or selection of photos about football past. This month it was the turn of old villa club photographer Terry Wier. One of his shots is this, of a proud Chico outside his obligatory boutique (excuse the line, this one is scanned from across the fold). Where was this fabulous shop? Something tells me it’s in a High Street somewhere rather than being slap in the centre of town — but do you know where? A load of Terry’s photos were collected into a book, called The Weir and the Wonderful (it’s still available, but not cheap).

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If they build it, they will come

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery have just come into some money, £300,000, and they’re going to use it to create a gallery showing Birmingham’s history from medieval times to the present day. I’m sure we used to have something a bit like this (a local history room anyway). But anyway — apart from getting some of the industrial history stuff back from Thinktank, digging out the system that did push-button playback of “I can’t find old Brummagem” and providing some of the Library’s Baskerville collection — with a decent home what should it have? Here’s some suggestions: Dennis Mortimer’s beard from when villa won the European cup. Every plan and architects model for a regenerated Brum, all google-earthed up and you can rum simulations of how the city would have looked if they’d come to pass. An interactive exhibit that  allows you to do the voice over for Telly Savalas looks at Birmingham – a bit like Singstar where you have to match the pitch, speed and not laugh when you claim to have “dallied in Dale End”. Dana International – well she’s not doing anything at the moment. A “how we used to stuff our faces” section, including...

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Brum Link 14th May

Found this on teh interwebs: Murder of an Aston Villa footballer – Liberal England: – An old story, but worth a link – Libreal England on “Aston Villa’s Tommy Ball aged 24 murdered by a deranged Police officer in 1924″ and burried in St John the Evangelist church, Perry Barr

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