I went to the Bell in Northfield when it was the meeting house of the Birmingham NF.
They told us to sup up and fuck off so we supped up and fucked off (because my Accord was in for repairs and I didn't want to upset the supermodels by getting ultra violent).
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 7 Feb 2014, 15:07, 8 replies)

Driven through Northfield many times.
Always reminded me of the original Dawn of the Dead.
I never stopped.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 7 Feb 2014, 15:17, closed)

It's definitely the roughest place I've ever lived
and I spent 18 months in a house on the fighting boundary between the celtic and rangers corners of Glasgow.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 7 Feb 2014, 15:50, closed)

On the plus side, the police response in both areas was almost instantaneous.
We once had a van full of beefy plod arrive outside the house in Glasgow before I'd even finished giving the address to the woman on the phone.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 7 Feb 2014, 15:52, closed)

Brilliant, you know you're in a classy place then.
I drove through Northfield the other week on my way to Selly (I haven't lived in Brum for 11 years) and they've moved the road! You now kinda miss out the main high street and skip around the back.
I was going to point out all the zombies to my wife but we were both to be disappointed. Sometimes you just can't go back.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 7 Feb 2014, 17:00, closed)

They should have just tarmac'd over the whole fucking place.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 7 Feb 2014, 19:01, closed)

Oh, god: Northfield.
Lived there for three years at the end of the nineties - if ever an area had no redeeming features, that's it.

I did once see a green woodpecker there, which was nice, but I assumed it had just got terribly lost.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 8 Feb 2014, 9:27, closed)

They probably beat it to death for being an immigrant and a homo.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 8 Feb 2014, 11:41, closed)

With flamboyant colours like that, probably both.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 8 Feb 2014, 16:45, closed)