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calling ex BIRMINGHAM UNIV studends

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PeppaPigot · 28/04/2010 22:13

i know ROISIN IS ONE!!
hey the debate is at the great hall.
i think i once got up to NO GOOD there.

the memories!! 89-92 Muirhead tower

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mummytime · 30/04/2010 11:36

I was there 83-86
Lived 3 years in Griffin. No Eating disorder.
I remember the bus strike when everyone had to walk into Uni.
Also in last year had an off peak bus pass so had to walk in early on Wednesday for my only 9am.

I quite liked the lighting last night. Despite exams, I spent the time remembering the Christmas Carol services in the Great Hall.

MrsMiamla · 30/04/2010 11:11

actually, i lied, just realised we were in Gleave Road and it was my old flatmate from Griffin who went to Hubert road!

MrsMiamla · 30/04/2010 08:24

tvfriend hubert road? yup!!! think we were number 30 something!

selly sausage was great! we used to pop in wearing our evening gowns after the various balls we had!

oh and the balti houses!!! can't remember the name of my favourite though

BeenBeta · 29/04/2010 22:49

I was at Birmingham University in 1982.

Well, strictly speaking I had a student room allocated and lectures and everythng but I just never turned up.

I eventually rang them up about a month into the first term and they apologised profusely that they hadn't noticed I was missing.

Wheelybug · 29/04/2010 22:25

No not 5 Bournbrook rd - a bit further up.

We used to dine at the Shapla. We thought we woz posh cos they had an alcohol license and you got a free carnation after the meal .

seaside72 · 29/04/2010 22:16

The old campus looks pretty good and is making me feel very nostalgic, as is all the talk of the Muirhead Tower, Selly Sausage and the OVT. I was there 92-96 (Wyd 92-93 and Exeter Rd Selly Oak 93-96) seems like a lifetime ago... oh yeah - it was!!

Horton · 29/04/2010 22:13

Most of the houses I lived in had proper heating apart from the Bournbrook Road one which only had those crappy electric fires that cost a fortune and were only warm when they were actually on. I fell asleep one morning, having just switched the fire on, listening to the progress of the Gulf War on the radio or something and accidentally melted my tape player.

nigglewiggle · 29/04/2010 22:13

Warwick University - now that's posh!

blametheparents · 29/04/2010 22:10

God yes, ice on the inside of the windows!
So cold at times.
Used to visit my BF (now DH) at Warwich University and his place was always like a sauna. Soooo nice.

nigglewiggle · 29/04/2010 22:07

We didn't have heating in Dawlish. DH still talks about the ice on the inside of the windows!

nigglewiggle · 29/04/2010 22:06

Selly Sausage was an ex-student run cafe just down from the OVT, opposite The Brook. It had paintings of John Lennon and Bob Marley on the walls. They did a fab veggie breakfast. I didn't think it was posh. In fact we went back there about 4 years ago when I went back for a friends wedding and it definitely wasn't posh. But, I'm more high maintenance now .

blametheparents · 29/04/2010 22:06

Hall looks so fab lit up, very swish!

blametheparents · 29/04/2010 22:03

We had heating, but one of my housemates was so tight she never let up have it on!
I still think of her when I notch the heating up another level now.

LeninGrad · 29/04/2010 22:03

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nigglewiggle · 29/04/2010 22:02

There was Zeddies 'super'market at the end of Dawlish and one on Bristol Road beginning with M. Both crappy!

tvfriend · 29/04/2010 22:01

Can't remember the Selly Sausage- what was it??

castille · 29/04/2010 22:00

I had posh mates who wore expensive jeans to the Selly Sausage of a hungover Sunday morning.

They all lived on Dawlish rd. AND they had heating.

Horton · 29/04/2010 22:00

The Selly Sausage was fab! Not for poshies, surely?

SuSylvester · 29/04/2010 21:59

night all!

tvfriend · 29/04/2010 21:59

Yes- the Dilshad! Thanks. There was a fab doner kebab place too and that really crappy supermarket. For a speacial occasion we'd go to sainsburys at the top of the hill and wheel the trolley home.

Horton · 29/04/2010 21:58

I lived in about four or five different houses. I kept moving. Alton Road, Bournbrook Road, one in Balsall Heath and another two in Moseley. I think the worst was Balsall Heath. V cheap but no fridge. The landlord did give me a fiver on my birthday, though (not a euphemism).

tvfriend · 29/04/2010 21:57

The bloke I totally lusted after lived in Dawlish road- hence a lot of staggering back from the OVT down that road in a vain attempt to bump into him (although generally he was in the OVT snogging other girls

OhGodItsCod · 29/04/2010 21:57

oh no now that was for poshies
opened in our ?second year
was a bit rah for us
we cooked our own
we ate together every nighet in alton road.
were most refained

castille · 29/04/2010 21:57

tv - nope, not me

Dawlish was THE place to live

nigglewiggle · 29/04/2010 21:56

No-one has mentioned the Selly Sausage .