The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Moseley, West Midlands*

Moseley, West Midlands Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Moseley School is looking amazing since the scaffolding came off.
• The Fighting Cocks - handsome. Loads of Victorian houses which are truly beautiful.

Demolish It Now Building

• Kwik-Save. Crap.
• Kwik Save, I guess.
• The Kwik-save supermarket - an absolute monstrosity.

The Best Things

• Moseley is an eclectic and unique suburb of Birmingham. There's always something interesting going on and residents have a genuine affection for the area and interest in what's happening. It's close enough to the city centre to mean that a taxi home isn't TOO much of an extravagance but it's far enough away to still have some green space. Best of all it's full of REAL characters.
• Generally good people, superb atmosphere, especially in the summer. Moseley also attracts a superior nutter/drunk - on the whole, far more insane than your run of the mill fruitcake.
• Relaxed part of town - very mixed. Some ace folk.
• Moseley is relaxed and bohemian in character - all sorts of people live, work, and play there and they all get on pretty well together. There's a definite sense of community and identity. Cinephilia - a video rental shop that's truly different. No Blockbuster trash here - every single film is pure quality, from The Seven Samurai to Citizen Kane.

The Worst Things

• Smugness of the residents who think it's an interesting place. In reality, it's just a step away from suburban boredom. Most of my neighbours are precious semi-professionals (musicians, teachers, bankers) who are only ever seen getting in and out of their sporty/posh cars. As for the nightlife, it's got pubs, bars, and other drinking establishments, including a decent billiards/pool/snooker club. Not much for the mind, then. So much for its reputation as an artist's enclave.
• Spiralling house prices. No book/record shop. Kwik Save (even worse since the Somerfield takeover). The Number One Bus (whose occasional appearances in Moseley bear scant relation to its official timetable).
• People who call Moseley "the village". You know who you are.
• No bookshop - Moseley could really do with at least one.

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Last updated: 2007-06-07