Fixture Changes/Games Moved for TV - Season 17/18

[cdbearsfan]

Still there I believe. About the only pub round here that I've never drank in.

[cheltenhamlion]

They had a number of those cheap, framed, "footy bantz" things above the bar. The kind you pick up at the pound shop.

A cartoon cherub pissing on a Villa shirt. A medley in homage to such luminaries as Tait and Devlin.  That sort of thing.

[Top Cat]

I worked in Erdington High St for 24 years and always tried to avoid going out at lunchtime if I could.

I used to go to Erdington High Street for area work meetings as our premises there had a large meeting/training room upstairs. I didn't think it was too bad. Having said that you should see some of the areas I have worked in, so in that respect I have quite a high shock threshold when it comes to crappy places.

You don’t work for Lloyds Bank do you?

[Nev]

The Bill and Bull still has bollock badges in the window, as does the Ivy Bush just out of town on the Hagley Road.
I think it's a good thing, a warning of what lies within. Like a TB hospital or leper colony.

[SoccerHQ]

Been pas the Ivy Bush so many times on the Bus but never been in it.

A SHA pub, really?

[saunders_heroes]

Been pas the Ivy Bush so many times on the Bus but never been in it.

A SHA pub, really?

It’s not. It’s got a Villa badge in a window the other side of the pub.

[Damo70]

I worked in Erdington High St for 24 years and always tried to avoid going out at lunchtime if I could.

I used to go to Erdington High Street for area work meetings as our premises there had a large meeting/training room upstairs. I didn't think it was too bad. Having said that you should see some of the areas I have worked in, so in that respect I have quite a high shock threshold when it comes to crappy places.

You don’t work for Lloyds Bank do you?

No, I worked in the betting industry.

I think I have been in The Bill And Bull in Yardley twice in my life, a fair few years back. My memory of it was that it was the opposite to The Tardis, looking massive on the outside but quite cramped inside. Maybe I was in the smallest bar.

[Exeter 77]

I always imagined The Bill and Bull being the inspiration for The Handcuff and Hand Grenade.

[cdbearsfan]

Been pas the Ivy Bush so many times on the Bus but never been in it.

A SHA pub, really?

It’s not. It’s got a Villa badge in a window the other side of the pub.

Drank in the Ivy Bush many times as a youth and never noticed either badge. It's not a Villa or a Blose pub. It's just a pub.

[cdbearsfan]

They had a number of those cheap, framed, "footy bantz" things above the bar. The kind you pick up at the pound shop.

A cartoon cherub pissing on a Villa shirt. A medley in homage to such luminaries as Tait and Devlin.  That sort of thing.

Sorry, I was on about the Old Bill and Bull. I took a while before hitting "reply" as I got distracted by dinner. I've been the Marston Green Tavern a couple of times and failed to notice the Blose memorabilia. I think I was in there wearing a Villa shirt after an away game, back in the days when I still considered a football shirt to be acceptable apparel, and never had any grief off anyone.

[PeterWithesShin]

Ivy Bush has a sha badge in the window and an Albion dartboard. Never noticed a Villa badge.

[cheltenhamlion]

The Bill and Bull still has bollock badges in the window, as does the Ivy Bush just out of town on the Hagley Road.
I think it's a good thing, a warning of what lies within. Like a TB hospital or leper colony.

I fell asleep in someone's garden just up the road from there.

[villa `cross the mersey]

The Bill and Bull still has bollock badges in the window, as does the Ivy Bush just out of town on the Hagley Road.
I think it's a good thing, a warning of what lies within. Like a TB hospital or leper colony.

I fell asleep in someone's garden just up the road from there.

You musta thought you were gnome

[amfy]

I work on Erdington High Street and find going at out lunch time really entertaining. I find the people relentlessly friendly, and we joke in our office that you mustn't stand still for too long if you nip out for a cigarette because someone will start a conversation with you.

I always end up chatting to some random on the high street, and that is as a pretty obvious outsider.

I quite like that I can nip out and have a bit of a browse in New Look or the weird little clothes section at the co-op, grab lunch at any number of basic takeaways, and the right shops are there for those little errands you need during the week A WHSmith if you need a birthday card for someone, a Boots and a Superdrug, my bank....

Erdington is definitely a bit rough, but I find, like most places, that you get back the attitude you give off.

[Ads]

I think of Girobank when I think of Bootle.

Which is why I moved north in the first place (there was an office on the Hagley Road ) - it then became Alliance and Leicester and latterly Santander
I worked at Bootle but lived in Formby.
Bootle /Seaforth takes up a sizable chunk of North Liverpool
Its tough but no more of a "dump" than parts of London, Brum, Manchester, Bradford et al
Next time you are round this way Ads, contact me and Ill take you out for a bevy with some of the local la`s - I am sure you will be very welcome.

Calm down, la you'll av de woolly baccccks kicking off

The Scallies have eaten the Woollies
I came down to Tamworth for a family meal last weekend - when I was paying the bill a fella at the bar said to the manageress - "watch it he's a scouser and will try and rob ya"
Nothing like stereotyping is there !!!
I wouldn't mind I have been ribbed for my Brummie accent for the last 22 years  - Peaky blinders  has given a bit of kudos to us Brummies up north  - mind you, having said that most of the scenes are shot up here in Liverpool !

The stereotype has some relevance though. I've not come across too many Scouse blokes who don't work fancy themselves as a bit of a wide boy with their jarg gear and whatnot, even those in white collar work.

Liverpool is different in many ways from a number of other cities. I won't patronise and say what a lovely people they are, but the ones I'm friends with are sound.

The racial and economic make up is significantly different from Manchester, London and Brum though. It also all looks the same outside the city centre, with very minimal exceptions, with thousands upon thousands of semi-detached ex-council houses in varying states of repair and it makes the city a bit meh for me in comparison to Brum.

Prefer it to Manchester mind, which fuels itself upon its own self-importance.