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YOU wait all year for a gift that’s just the ticket – then three arrive all at once.

And, in fact, there are even more just down the road as Birmingham’s iconic Number 11 Outer Circle bus route succumbs to memorabilia mania.

Like the route? Does it bus pass muster? Then how about a set of drinks coasters bearing photos and snappy mottos?

And just so you can piece together the appeal of the Outer Circle run, then there’s a jigsaw you can complete.

In addition, there are computer mouse mats, chopping boards and trays, all designed to show your appreciation of the No 11.

The Second City souvenirs will replace the cult calendar devoted to the route that has become an unlikely seasonal smash hit.

And the company behind them – previously responsible for calendars such as Roundabouts of Birmingham and Insane Asylums of England – hopes they will prove just as successful.

“The bad news is that there will be no new ‘Birmingham’s Outer Circle 11 Bus Route’ calendars for the foreseeable future,” says Kevin Beresford, wacky boss of Redditch company Roundabouts Of Britain.

“In the last few years it has been increasingly difficult not to repeat the same locations as in previous publications. You find yourself recycling if you like the same old places.

“We ended up last year shooting the Inner Circle 8, which I have to admit was not a great success.

“Not wishing to short change Brummies, we have to decided to terminate the worldwide-selling calendar forthwith.

“So, instead, we have established a range of gift products featuring the iconic route.”

Kevin, 60, says he was inspired by haulage firm Eddie Stobart, which offers fans of its immaculately decorated fleet scale models and even clothing.

“Along the lines of Eddie Stobart’s merchandising, we have established a range of products featuring Birmingham‘s iconic Outer Circle 11,” explains Kevin.

“Using the latest print technology we have produced printed products that will astound you in quality, colour, choice of materials and imagination.

“I’ve been in the print trade all my life and have never seen such a printed lustre produced on the surface of wood, plastic, metal and glass.”

Kevin featured in the Sunday Mercury in January last year when he launched the Roundabouts of Birmingham calendar.

Buyers could keep track of important 2012 events while looking at pictures of the roundabout on Witton Road, Aston – described by Kevin as a ‘doublekerber brick-ringer gyrator’.

Others included an island on Wolverhampton Road South, Quinton, labelled a ‘delightful roundabout incorporating two radiant flower beds, a towering tree as a centre piece, and an enchanting pedestrian pathway’.

There were also spots for the clock roundabout at the heart of the Jewellery Quarter and the Ring Road roundabout where Summer Hill Road meets Ladywood Middleway.

Insane Asylums of England featured four Midland mental hospitals, all of them closed down.

The month of April featured a picture and short history of the Victorian-era Warwick County Asylum.

The Hollymore Hospital, in Rubery, Birmingham, represented the merry month of May.

June featured Worcester City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, in Powick, and August was the St Edwards Hospital in Staffordshire, where patients were given five hour-long hot baths in the belief it might cure them.