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The Irish Centre in Digbeth, Birmingham.

I went to a few gigs there in the 1990s with my brother. It is, or was, just a few hundred metres from the college I teach at. Now, sadly reduced to a pile of rubble.

 

Probably to make way for more of the flats and apartments you can see behind it.

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Just now, T-Bay said:

Isn’t that area part of the HS2 nonsense? Loads of work going on around there. The academy has survived so far at least……

 

No, that's over the other side of the city centre. There's loads of work going on around Digbeth, it's for the tramway though.

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4 minutes ago, ambient said:

 

No, that's over the other side of the city centre. There's loads of work going on around Digbeth, it's for the tramway though.

Ah, my mistake, I thought the Digbeth stuff was HS2 as well. The tramway work is crazy, they have closed loads of roads and coned off huge areas but work on a 50m stretch at a time. I know a couple of businesses in the old custard factory that area struggling because of it.

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6 minutes ago, T-Bay said:

Ah, my mistake, I thought the Digbeth stuff was HS2 as well. The tramway work is crazy, they have closed loads of roads and coned off huge areas but work on a 50m stretch at a time. I know a couple of businesses in the old custard factory that area struggling because of it.

 

There are a few empty shops in the Custard Factory. I go there most days for coffee.

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I may be wrong but I think that iteration of the Irish Centre closed it's doors before covid and the building has been unused since.

 

There's a 'New Irish Centre' opened in Kings Heath which I think may be run by some of the same people although I'm not sure whether the new place is still a regular live venue.

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53 minutes ago, ambient said:

 

Is that on the same side of the road but back toward the centre? There is a pub there that has bands.

 

I've just gwgled and the Barrel Organ is now the Dubliner and still there (for how much longer I don't know).

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