00:00Hi and welcome to the Barton Arms. We're standing outside here the Palace of Varieties which is our
00:07entertainment room. This room in particular was very famous back in the day with the likes of
00:13Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Ozzy Osbourne and even Frank Skinner started their career here.
00:19So we're looking to revive that and bring it back to its former glory. What's special about this
00:25place? It's a historical value. It's a fantastic place. It's full of so many memories which I'm
00:31glad to be a part of. We've done a lot of research into who was here. We've been attended here by
00:36Charlie Chaplin, by Laurel and Hardy and on stage we've had Ozzy Osbourne and even Frank Skinner
00:42started his career off here. So it's full of nostalgia and historical value which you want
00:48to bring that back to you. What does that mean to Birmingham and the West Midlands? For Birmingham
00:54the West Midlands, this is really a one-off place where nowhere else in town has got this historical
01:00value to it. What's the historical value? Because of all the famous people we've had here
01:07come through the doors and the building itself is absolutely amazing. Built in 1901. It's still the
01:14original Victorian tiles which everybody comes to look at. They're made by Minton in Soak-on-Trents
01:21and it's just such a fantastic nostalgic place.
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