Greater Birmingham - Thread

[Brum X]

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[rollo]

Good news and bad news today, good news is we have got tickets for the T20 cricket semi final in next years Commonwealth games the bad news is failed on the beach volleyball?

Also my wife has an interview in September as a volunteer.

 

[JENNYJET]

Black hats for rollo, Beach volleyball will be a sad affair without our rollo in attendance!

 

[rollo]

Black hats for rollo, Beach volleyball will be a sad affair without our rollo in attendance!

Surely a black hat is a bit strong isn't that what they put on before been sent to the gallows.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Good news and bad news today, good news is we have got tickets for the T20 cricket semi final in next years Commonwealth games the bad news is failed on the beach volleyball?

Also my wife has an interview in September as a volunteer.

I didn't know that Birmingham had any beaches.

 

[rollo]

Brummies call it Weston-super-Mare!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Brummies call it Weston-super-Mare!

Or Weston-super-Mud as the tide goes out such a long way across the estuarial mud. Obviously they will create an artificial beach for the Birmingham Games. Where will it be?

 

[rollo]

It will be smack in the heart of Birmingham at the old Smithfield site so will clearly outdo the previous Commonwealth games in 2018 at Brisbane when they had to make do with a beach on the gold coast and all that wall to wall sunshine.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

I didn't know that Birmingham had any beaches.

Walsall used to. I can't remember how many summers it lasted, but they shipped in hundreds of tons of sand to create a 'beach'. I think the council marketed as it 'Walsall-by-the-sea'. I've looked online, but can't find any reference.

Kevin

 

[JENNYJET]

What about Frankley Beaches? I recall such a place or am I finally going ga ga!

 

[Poshgirl]

A small one sprang up at The Fort Shopping Centre, taking out a number of parking spaces. Not sure whether they bothered last year, certainly not this one.

It's actually Frankley Beeches. Near two reservoirs so hardly qualifies as a place for sunbathing.....

 

[JENNYJET]

Spelling error noted and thank you.

 

[Brum X]

Or Weston-super-Mud as the tide goes out such a long way across the estuarial mud. Obviously they will create an artificial beach for the Birmingham Games. Where will it be?

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[JENNYJET]

Why can't the organisers utilise one of the big halls at NEC for the purpose? Why inflict the event in Weston super mare or offer it to Knutsford services? Birmingham has spaces for any event so why spread it around England? In fact, why did they bid for the games?

 

[rollo]

Why can't the organisers utilise one of the big halls at NEC for the purpose? Why inflict the event in Weston super mare or offer it to Knutsford services? Birmingham has spaces for any event so why spread it around England? In fact, why did they bid for the games?

It's in Birmingham see posts 687 to 690.

 

[JENNYJET]

Smithfield? Dingy area, back of markets and St. Martin's is hardly somewhere to celebrate sports is it? Probably what I expected

 

[Poshgirl]

Usual Birmingham attitude, no expansive thinking!

Given the unpredictable weather, it could be pouring down in W-s-M so an indoor venue such as the NEC would be more practical. Near to transport links too. Surely there must be some technology out there that would create a suitable backdrop of cloudless blue sky indoors....

Hopefully, all the roadworks in and around Birmingham will be finished by then.

Sutton Park has been chosen for triathlon. Ideal because there's 7(?) lakes, various walking/cycling/running routes and great spectator experience. After all, it hosted the Lombard RAC Rally many, many years ago....

 

[Brum X]

The Mercian tower crane is being taken down as we speak.

There is such a thing as a tower crane geek, honest. And to them this is like 10 x Christmas in 1, lol

Btw I'm not a tower crane geek, more of a skyscraper geek

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