Knowing Brummagem they have probably pulled it down Paulie. It was a well known landmark in what I always believed to be Aston High Street. I always used to walk to the ground down from Dale End past Gaskell and Chambers and the Conan Doyle plaque was high on the wall of a red brick parade of shops above an ironmongers shop. It had a great big sweeping broom suspended over the shop and a swinging sign like a pub sign saying "the sign of the big broom".
From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, including a period working in Aston.
If you were to get the bus from the city centre Stinger you could see the birthplace of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the creator of Sherlock Holmes. That is where they should have the museum not next to The Volunteer in Baker Street but that is what cockerneys do, they assume everyone who does anything notable is one of their own. If you walk up from Aston Station over to the right lies the Serpentine Grounds where it is now widely believed Charlie Chaplin was born in a caravan of a touring circus, not at the Elephant in London, see above cockneys and famous people.
Have a great day Stinger and have a beer for me. We'll be watching live and bleary eyed in the Barossa
Stinger, just to confirm, if you choose the train a 'Birmingham stations' ticket will NOT get you to Aston or Witton. Like someone has already pointed out, 'Birmingham stations' are the City Centre stations only. If you bought a ticket to Witton though that would cover you to either station.
Stinger, you seem to have the Birmingham end of your trip wrapped up.Do you need any advice on how to get to the station in Oxford?
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