Comments on: Why Mr Egg is more important than Selfridges

By: Mart

Mart — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:07:04 +0000

Mr Egg is class!!!

Honestly – I have worked in Brum for years and only frequented the place for the first time early March this year.

You don’t have to have eggs either – though sausage egg and chips and a cup of (weak) coffee for under £3.00 is amazing in Birmingham

you can barely get a nice caramel macchiata from the ‘bucks for that!!!!

and it fills you up!

my mates nicked half me dinner and there was still plenty left.

The other good value/low budget places are Big Wok (around the corner), the Cathay and Pizza hut (£3.99 for all you eat – can’t be bad!)

I hope they get bored of redevelop soon, there’s only so many glass fronted lobbies a person can take!

Can’t beat the Brum for a nice easy dinner break.

Anyone else had Yum Yum’s from St. Martin’s (Bull Ring) market???

3 for fiftay pay!!!!!!!! they holler

at least when they have them (Chilly willy’s)

By: I hate Mr Eggs

I hate Mr Eggs — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:27:38 +0000

Mr Eggs rocks pure art for the egg infested sad people who like anything eggy and yolkie

go try and see

The suck

By: mr egg

mr egg — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:58:16 +0000

Eggnother Mr Egg here.I,v never been to the take eggway but hopegg to be in Birmingham’n'eggs in a month or too.Will defy be egglong.

x egg peace x

By: Mrs Egg!

Mrs Egg! — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 06:10:06 +0000

I love Mr Egg! He’s crackin’!

By: james w

james w — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:10:00 +0000

Mr Egg represents Birmingham. Seen! You know it will outlive the trendy sushi bars and lolipops with scorpions inside them. keep it local, keep it real and keep going Mr Egg. God bless Mr Egg and all who sail in her.

By: matt b

matt b — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:58:59 +0000

I noticed a disturbing trend when looking around for a music-pub type venue. As the centre redevelops, the music type pubs have got pushed out. A fine example is the Fiddle & Bone which was having trouble with its music licence as a result of new trendy canalside apts, and shut down a year ago. I don’t see why it needs to be either glitz & stripmalls or interesting, but that’s the way it seems to be going.

By: Dad

Dad — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 01:22:22 +0000

The council will never be able to strip mall all of Brum – imagine Sparkhill ever being redeveloped! I do understand your point though in that very close to the Bull Ring there is a complete contrast in architectural style and the BR mentality will start to envelope its environs.

To illustrate my point, here is a photo I took of Moor Street Station – as fine a piece of resotoration as you will see anywhere – from Selfridges. The skyline is typical Brum!

http://www.focalplane.com/Archives/InTheNews1103.html

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:35:08 +0000

Sorry, I have to correct myself. My point wasn’t about regeneration as such, more that the media and other soundbite junkies kinda miss the point when they report stuff like this. My worry is that the council will see this as justification for strip-malling everything.

I don’t clean anywhere in the city centre at the moment – I’m out in the suburbs in the Erdington / Spag Junction area.

I was actually walking around Digbeth this afternoon with Bookshop-Andy who told me of these redevelopment plans. Apparently the central library is being moved down there which is interesting but it does put it on the other end of town from the offices by the cathedral. We spent some time in the Custard Factory and if that’s an example of how the area will be developed it’s a good one.

By: Dad

Dad — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:08:30 +0000

And reading Peter’s comment about the fruit and veg market (they have an excellent web site BTW) I am reminded of the old Market Hall on the original Bull Ring. Its roof was blown away in WWII and thereafter it was an open air fish market. I saw my first live eels there in about 1952. The old Smithfield Market was in Digbeth, south of St. Martins Church. In those days (1950s) the Bull Ring had more character than it does today, or at least my memory tells me so!

By: Dad

Dad — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:04:16 +0000

One of Birmingham’s best features is the small size of the city centre. It is a city you can walk around in easily, at least until you come to one of the 1960s’ ways/circuses. Digbeth is apparently the next area to be developed with lower cost warehouse conversions going in but without destroying the Irish character of the area. I doubt if people will be drinking their lattes on the banks of the River Rea but you never know. Thirty years ago the canals near Broad Street were derelict, now they’re an attraction.

The efforts at keeping the Victorian buildings intact and looking good have worked. The grot falls into two categories – pre-war buildings that have seen better days and post war concrete etc. that probably should be pulled down. New Street Station’s signal box has a preservation order on it so we will always have one example of the 1960s to remember – do we need more?

My thought would be to rebuild New Street Station and thereby re-do the Pallisades – why? It’s too crowded! More pedestrian or bus only roads would not hurt. I don’t think there’s much else that needs to be done. Certainly the skyline usually looks a mess but Birmingham represents growth in a rather uncertain, capitalistic way. I doubt it will ever be bore-ing!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 04:56:05 +0000

Do you ever get to clean up in the fruit and veg market, just round the corner from where you’re describing? I had to tip 20 tons of apples there a while back, in the middle of the night. Near dawn, the porters arrive and start pushing antique carts around. It’s like being back in the Victorian age, and the language is pretty robust, too.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 03:15:55 +0000

My point is there isn’t actually that much space in the centre of Birmingham for the next generation to move to, at least not around New St station, which is pretty much the only way to get into Brum. Digbeth might be getting interesting with the Custard Factory et all but it’s a bit of a trek.

By: Dave C

Dave C — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 02:18:49 +0000

Re development happens, a new generation of ‘cool’ comes along and moves in to a new area of town with low rents. I remember my shock at what has happened to Carnaby Street. I think that city centres will become increasingly bland and corporate, the ‘cool’ areas will move out to the edges and probably in to old industrial brown field sites.