A lovely wide street in Birmingham city centre.
Very smart shops either side & of course a street with trees is always a bonus.
Three good things:
1. Good job it was a photography & meeting day only with all these tempting shops around!
2. Jack has arrived safely in Japan
3. Half way through another good book called The Trouble with Henry & Zoe by Andy Jones.
Just to the left there used to be a huge waterstones in my day and a walkway up to the old shopping centre above the train station. On the walkway up there was a macdonalds we frequented in the early hours of the morning to soak up a nights drinking....
Up to the right was the way we walked to a weird shop called oasis. It was a right of passage to wander through this shop every trip to town but in all my teenage years i dont remember any of us ever buying anything in it!
Turn and face 180° and on your left would be BHS, where every christmas when little we came to chose new clothes and oppisote bhs is the odeon. The place where at 14 we all lied with our fake ID to be 15 to see my first 15 film Speed. My first teenage kiss happened outside odeon too! Oh my the memories from one shot!! Apologies for overloading your feed!
@newbank Oh lovely memories there is still a shop called Oasis, I saw it but not sure if it was the same branch, I wouldn't call this oasis weird just clothes.
@newbank How funny I obviously am only reading one comment at a time as I keep seeing your name! It's lovely to have memories of our youth so I'm so glad I brought them to mind!
just googled "alternative shops in birmingham" top of the list "oasis birmingham" The website says the shop is 40 years old, a heaven of all things slightly bizarre and crazy in life!
Nice to see such a good walking area in a big city The shops must benefit. Saw this in Manchester too but hundreds of people there! Don't you love having a good book to pick up and continue reading!
Definitely looks like shopping heaven to me too. reading the comments between you and Ruth @newbank brought back memories for me too. I remember a disco called the Oasis in Manchester in the 1960s. I was a regular visitor. Met quite a few of the 60s bands there too. Don't know if the Oasis store was around in those days though.
keeping with the theme of memories I wonder what my grandparents would think if they could travel back there. They left and came to Australia about 90 years ago as a young married couple with a teenage daughter.
@judithg well Jack has a weird sense of day & night anyway, he's up half the night then sleeps late in the holidays as they all seem to do! He's enjoying it the little bit we've heard but going to do a blog!
Missed this one Pat. You're so good at these street shots. So we're off to get stoned next time are we? Not sure about the tattoo @newbank I think getting stoned with Pat may be enough new experiences for me!
@newbank The huge Waterstones had a beautiful staircase which I wanted to photograph. Sadly it is no longer a Waterstones. As far as I can make out it is being converted into part of an adjoining hotel.
