There are currently five main theatres in the centre of Birmingham but, in the past, there were many more. Most of those were lost as cinema, radio and television took hold, as audiences, especially f

The House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London SW1

LONDON HAS MORE MEMBERS’ CLUBS THAN ANY OTHER CITY. WHAT’S MORE SURPRISING IS THAT FAR FROM BEING RELICS OF THE PAST, A REVIVAL IS UNDERWAY, DISCOVERS ANNE CUTHBERTSON

YOU COULD THROW a dart at a calendar blindfold and hit a significant date for the Ace Cafe, 1950s bastion of café racers, prominent landmark on London’s hardly picturesque North Circular, and, under t

A once-neglected patch of land in Duddingston, Edinburgh has been transformed into a welcoming green space by volunteers. Jock Tamson’s Gairden – named in honour of Duddingston’s Rev John Thomson, ins

Lees, Holroyd, Wolstenholme and Pritchard; you might think it sounds like a legal firm in, say, Oldham, Lancashire. And you’d be right about the Oldham part. John Lees (guitar), Les Holroyd (bass), St