Potblack
That explains why I never used it then, by that time I was an old married man and banned from such places. I was only allowed down the local where there were no dolly birds.
Back to our walk around the town, next door to Sloopys was the old Gazette building that later became The Birmingham Mail buildings with Maples furniture store next to that. Then the Grand Casino Dance Hall where all you young ladies used to nick into for the dinner time dances in your dinner break and then the hang out of the Teddy Boys in town kings Hall Market.
Phil