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The Birmingham Post, Evening Mail, Sports Argus and Sunday Mercury moved into the purpose built Post and Mail building in the city centre in 1965. Its concrete and steel structure with glass and aluminium cladding panels seemed impressively modern when it was built, but its brutalist 1960s design did not age well and it was demolished in 2005.
The newspaper was founded as the Birmingham Daily Mail in 1870, [2] in April 1963 it became known as the Birmingham Evening Mail and Despatch after merging with the Birmingham Evening Despatch [3] and was titled the Birmingham Evening Mail from 1967 until October 2005. [4] The Mail is published Monday to Saturday.
The interchange's colloquial name, "Spaghetti Junction", was coined in 1965 by journalists from the Birmingham Evening Mail. On 1 June 1965, reporter Roy Smith described plans for the then unbuilt junction as a "cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot" and sub-editor Alan Eaglesfield headlined the ...
The term was originally used to refer to the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in Birmingham, United Kingdom. [1] In an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as "like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot", with the headline above the article on the ...
The Scotsman Digital Archive 1817–2002 (Pay / Free with Athens account) The Evening Times (1914–1990) (Glasgow) via Google News Archive. The Glasgow Herald (1806–1990) via Google News Archive. Word on the Street 1650–1910 almost 1,800 Scottish broadsides at National Library of Scotland Free.
In an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965, journalist Roy Smith described plans for the Gravelly Hill Interchange as "like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot", with the headline above the article on the newspaper's front page, written by sub-editor Alan ...
Birmingham Mail newspaper launched as the Birmingham Evening Mail. Birmingham Council agree to build offices on lands bought in 1853. 1871 1 June: Birmingham, Alabama established in the United States. School Board established in Birmingham as required by the Elementary Education Act 1870 and with the support of Joseph Chamberlain.
He was chess columnist for the Sunday Times between 1983 and 1997, and for the Birmingham Evening Mail from 1967 to around 2002. Cafferty has for many years been in demand in the chess world for his profound knowledge of (and passionate interest in) the Russian language and he has translated several books from Russian to English.