Kings Heath Serious fire

Destructive fire in Kings Heath yesterday
Did you go to the Atlas
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21950599

What's the Atlas got to do with it SB?

Never went to the Ritz myself even if the Beatles played there. I always thought it was overrated even back then. I used the doubles bar in the back room of the Hare & Hounds next door many times. I thought that a much better place, mind you the Ritz was a bingo hall then. I bet SB remembers it when it was a cinema.

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Never went to the Ritz myself even if the Beatles played there. I always thought it was overrated even back then. I used the doubles bar in the back room of the Hare & Hounds next door many times. I thought that a much better place, mind you the Ritz was a bingo hall then. I bet SB remembers it when it was a cinema.

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SB

Was you still at school in 1974? because thats when I used the Hare and Hounds. I used to pop in there to fill up on cheap whisky before going to the Country & Western club at the Red Lion in Vicarage Rd.

I drove through Kings Heath about two months ago and saw an old cinema on the Alcester Road that I never knew was there.
The name was quite clear because it is carved in stone. I wondered if that was the Atlas. I have just checked and it is called the Kingsway.

An aerial view shows that is in only the frontage that survives, the rest has collapsed. The Kingsway

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SB

Was you still at school in 1974? because thats when I used the Hare and Hounds. I used to pop in there to fill up on cheap whisky before going to the Country & Western club at the Red Lion in Vicarage Rd.

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SB

Was you still at school in 1974? because thats when I used the Hare and Hounds. I used to pop in there to fill up on cheap whisky before going to the Country & Western club at the Red Lion in Vicarage Rd.

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Yes I was very young then.

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SB

Was you still at school in 1974? because thats when I used the Hare and Hounds. I used to pop in there to fill up on cheap whisky before going to the Country & Western club at the Red Lion in Vicarage Rd.

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Yes I was very young then.

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I think someone is telling porkies, Mothers had closed by then hadn't it? did you used to go there in your school uniform?

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So how far in front of yourself was you?

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So how far in front of yourself was you?

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So how far in front of yourself was you?

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