Another loss to Newhall Street. The Vintage Motor Cycle Club
held an annual Tour of Birmingham, where a hundred or more nice
old bikes travelled round the Outer Circle, stopping at strategic
points ...er pubs, and then lined up for inspection in Newhall
Street outside the Science Museum. I didn't hear what caused the
demise of this delightful event, but looking at the succession of
rotten councils Birmingham has had since the 1950s, I can imagine

Photographed in Newhall Street was this unusual Ariel V-twin.
This Birmingham firm made a range of good motorcycles until they
were bought up by BSA and their vastly superior designs were stifled