{"id":6462,"date":"2018-12-09T06:36:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6462"},"modified":"2018-12-09T06:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:36:54","slug":"mythical-beasts-of-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/12\/09\/mythical-beasts-of-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythical Beasts of Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"

A short humourous article surveys a few of The Mythical Beasts of Birmingham<\/a>, being: the Wump-Tay; Brummies; the “Boss” Tin; The Abominable Snow Hill Man; and The Wrekin.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of Ken Reid’s new artbook Creepy Creations<\/a><\/em>, I can think of a few more suggestions, off the top of my head: the Back-a-rack ‘Em (“Back of Rackhams”); the ‘Bumbler 11’ (No 11 bus); the ‘Cad’ Berry (Cadbury); the Certain Coldfeet (Sutton Coldfield); the Suit-on Pork (Sutton Park); the Jolly Cutter; the Bull Wringer (Bull Ring); the Snot Hill (Snow Hill); the Bag-a-Bush (Beggar’s Bush); the Buzz Tin (“Bostin”); the Lickers (The Lickeys); the dreadful monster-pop band the Broomies (“Brummies”) who play strung sweeping-brooms; the dreadful monster-rock band Dark-Hover and d’ Billz Mudders (“It’s dark over Bill’s Mother’s”); the Soul-In-Hell (Solihull) and the distant Doodley Doodler (Dudley). <\/p>\n

There’s also the historically recorded Mine Knockers of the South Staffordshire coalfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A short humourous article surveys a few of The Mythical Beasts of Birmingham, being: the Wump-Tay; Brummies; the “Boss” Tin; The Abominable Snow Hill Man; and The Wrekin. In the spirit of Ken Reid’s new artbook Creepy Creations, I can think of a few more suggestions, off the top of my head: the Back-a-rack ‘Em […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}