Friday Funnies: Lamb gets a pistol whipping
BLOGGER John Duckers takes a look at the new humble abode of a chamber’s PR chief this week.
A MISSIVE on parchment from Lamb Towers, the new 17th century abode of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce spin doctor John Lamb.
It seems the property comes with two highwaymen’s pistols dredged from the manor’s pond.
Much to the amusement of today’s Dick Turpin, a case of ‘stand and deliver’ your secret story.
Duelling pistols apparently dated 1843 – not long after Lamb was born!
Now encased in glass surrounds and a wooden box, apparently the things must be kept with the building.
The usual concealed ‘Priest Hole’ and all, not RC actually but Quaker, in Meeting House Lane, Balsall Common, close to the abode of old chamber chum Roger Monkman.
Amazingly, Lamb insists there have been few visits to notorious hostelry the Brickies Arms nearby, so instead, he has turned bird lover.
He tells me: “The moorhens keep bashing on the window every morning demanding to be fed.”
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