Posts Tagged ‘ Perry Barr ’

A twitcher’s history of Perry Barr

Superbly evocative nostalgia, for me anyway I remember this bird well, from Andy Mabbett: As a child, I was often taken to our local shopping centre in Perry Barr, north Birmingham (since replaced by a tin shed with pretensions of being a mall) to see a Mynah bird (Acridotheres tristis). It resided in what I now realise was a ridiculously small cage, on the counter of a petshop, and would delight all and sundry by asking repeatedly, “Where’s George?”, wolf whistling, or performing another of its many acts of mimicry.

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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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Perry Barr Tower Block Makeover

Via The Stirrer. Urban Splash, who have taken seemingly ages to refit Fort Dunlop and the Rotunda, have been chosen by Birmingham City Council to transform three tower blocks on the Birchfield estate in Perry Barr. The idea being to create ‘city living’ style apartments that are also “affordable housing”. Nice to see ‘regenration’ of housing outside the city centre – I hope these won’t be snapped up by people to rent out to UCE students, and that proper controls to stop that are in place.

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