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When did you use the Ringway, I used it for most of 1967/68. I knew Barry Parker for years, I also used to see him in the Tow Rope Cafe and the Rum Runner but I had known him since about 1963 from the Cafes around Balsall Heath. At that time he used to hang around with Pauline.
Phil it would be about 67-69 , I first started chatting to him In the Cosmos café on Broad Street , just up past Sheepcote street . It used to be open till about 2.30am bottled beer was available upstairs in a a disco , quite some colourful characters there I can tell you. This
one Saturday night I seen this mature looking woman in a very nice blue and white 2 piece costume I asked her if she would like to dance , he answered no thanks I might do later, boy that surprised me , the one night Barry turned up in a Cortina ,he was wearing a white fedora hat he was on his way to the Tow Rope and gave me a lift down there , as I lived behind the Hall of Memory at the time . Thinking back I don't know whether or not he used to go in the Crown in Station St , we used to go upstairs there on a Friday night after the Crown closed for the night it was straight around to the Ringway I used to like Barry .