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Bull Ring Shopping Centre advert from 1985

from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Birmingham Bullring Shopping Centre TV advert from 1985 (via Brumcast)

Dogging up King’s Heath

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.

The Saturday Men (West Bromwich Albion 1962)

“The Saturday Men” spends a week following West Bromwich Albion around. It follows them to training, the inner workings of the boardroom (to the extent to which the inhabitants of said room were going to be honest when there were cameras around), takes the time to meet a former player who is about to embark on a new career as a salesman and even stops in on a pre-match team talk by the club’s then manager, Archie McAuley.

Heart By-Pass: Jonathan Meades Motors Through Birmingham

Back from 1998 much of this is still completely relevant: More Meades (and currently doing a series about Scotland on BBC Four).

The zombies are coming

The swine flu series Survivors is coming to town and on Sunday 14th June – 6.30am to 6.30pm – they're doing a huge operation, which includes: "the complete closure of Newhall St from Colmore Row down to Great Charles Queensway for the whole this day… the complete closure of Edmund Street from Livery Street up to the corner where it joins Margaret Street… the suspension of all of the parking bays along Newhall St between Great Charles St and Colmore Row, and also along Edmund St from the Saturday for filming and continuity purposes. They will also be carrying out filming on the top floor of Livery St car park and have requested the closure of the top floor of the car park for their sole use on this date." 'citing, just like living in New York or something. See the full SP on the Retail Birmingham site:

Remembering the Tornado of 2005

"Perhaps you captured the event on camera or on your mobile phone? Or friends, family or colleagues experienced the tornado first-hand?" Have you got pictures of the devastation caused to Greggs in King's Heath? Maverick TV are making a programme for the Beeb and are looking for contributors:

Robert Vaughn to live in the Rotunda? The Man from B.R.U.M.C.L.E

Something to do with Hustle supposedly coming to Brum to film, he said: "my wife said 'you've got to find out where I'm going to live!' So tonight after the signings I'm going down to the Rotunda in the Bullring, which is apparently the best place for apartment-type living."

Press the Jenson button now

Old news, it seems, but just stumbled upon this promo for City TV Birmingham featuring top DJ ‘Kid’ Jenson.

Roving with Rustie

Rustie Lee at Cadbury’s Factory: “31 years? Goodness gracious, you should know how to straighten your nuts by now!” followed up with a particularly filthy laugh. Also featuring a quick shot of Nick Owen. Found via Brumblr, which is a sort of web scrapbook for Birmingham – it’s a group blog based on tumblr which makes it very easy to share stuff on the web (you can join in with this too).

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