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Take a first look inside Birmingham’s first steampunk bar.

Cogs Bar is opening in Newhall Street in the city centre with a ‘back to the future’ vibe.

Steampunk means items you’d associate with the Industrial Revolution and Victorian age but with a futuristic twist.

That’s epitomised by a golden robot who stands in the corner of the bar.

He has clockwork innards, but you can plug him in and his digital face lights up with the time.

There’s a growing community of people interested in steampunk, highlighted by the fact that Cogs Bar’s Facebook account had 8,000 likes within eight hours of being set up.

Cogs Bar used to be Chi Bar and then Aura, which was open only on Saturday nights for a predominantly Asian clientele.

Now brothers Kalvinder and Pin Brard are stripping it right back to basics and reopening as Cogs.

That means plenty of exposed brickwork and pipes and quirky, mechanical objects.

There’s an old-fashioned phone and unusual, industrial light fittings.

A corner booth looks like the basket of a hot air balloon, using wooden palettes and ropes.

The sinks in the toilets are made from Champagne buckets.

The brothers went to Romania for research and were inspired by steampunk bar Joben Bistro.

Pin says: “We’ve not finished kitting the bar out yet but then we never will be, as it will be always evolving.

“People get bored but we want them to be intrigued, to come in and find it’s different from last week. Our motto is expect the unexpected.

“We’re working our way up to opening all three floors. We are going to showcase the work of steampunk artists and want every wall to be covered.”

There are plans in the future to serve food. There will also be live bands at weekends.

Kalvinder says: “We want a bar where anyone can stroll in. You have to wear shoes and trousers in a lot of Birmingham bars, we want to get away from that and be more laidback. A place for people to be themselves.

“The steampunk idea is really catching on but there are very few bars in England at the moment, and we are the first in Birmingham.”