Down in Digbeth

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Digbeth, a suburb in Birmingham, UK. Once an area of Industry, slums, squalor and street gangs or sloggers. The BBC, (that's the biased broadcasting corporation, to those that understand), based the popular, now in it's 6th and final series, Peaky Blinders, on said gangs.

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Now although parts still carry their historic past in the amazing architecture, much has been gentrified and is the hip place to hang out.

Let's walk the streets and admire the often overlooked beauty of stencils and bits of sticky paper.

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A chance for political expression?

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Elbit, is an Israeli based "defence" electronics company.

A chance for political truth?

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Top left sticker.

A chance for non politically correct humour? (tongue deep in my cheek at the thought of all the bed wetting generation Z wetwipes who are making an industry of being "offended")

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I give you the glamorous and wonderful Rose West, who between the late 60's to the late 80's, along with her hubby Fred murdered at least 12 people at their home In Gloucester.

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The beauty of randomness.

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Every lamppost has a story to tell.

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What do you take me for? Some kind of Pilchard?

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