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Ghost Buildings

Frothblower

Frothblower

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Me and Templer we're on our way to Brown Lion last Saturday when we noticed the outline of a lost building on the wall of the Swanpool Tavern. We've been up and down Lichfield road a thousand times but neither of us had noticed it before.
 
froth i keep meaning to find out what the outline is on a building just as you come into newtown row from town...its on the left just before the canal i think and you can still see where the old fireplace would have been...must get a pic of it one day..

lyn
 
It was just a house on the side of the Swanpool Tavern, as can be seen here.

Phil

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Thanks everyone. Yes just a house Phil. Wasn't expecting much else being that size.The chimney in the photo is not the ghost chimney though
 
lf l remember rightly there used to be a line of shops next to the pub....l used to pass that way to catch the tram and bus when l left J.Wrights to go home, in the 50's ...Brenda
 
I can remember that line of shops, from when I worked at Foseco just round the corner and we used The Swanpool fairly regularly for a quick sup after work. The pub seemed to have a bad reputation, but we never had a problem.

Big Gee
 
Big Gee said:
I can remember that line of shops, from when I worked at Foseco just round the corner and we used The Swanpool fairly regularly for a quick sup after work. The pub seemed to have a bad reputation, but we never had a problem.

Big Gee
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It's the mark of them chimney, surely they wouldn't have been built so close to the next building?
 
I lived not far from there in the 40s and 50s, my mom worked at the Swanpool and I have very fond memories of this time. The lady who owned the lino shop was there for many years, her name was Rose, I knew her quite well, my mate worked there on a saturday, you can just see her in the photo.
 
ASTONITE said:
I lived not far from there in the 40s and 50s, my mom worked at the Swanpool and I have very fond memories of this time. The lady who owned the lino shop was there for many years, her name was Rose, I knew her quite well, my mate worked there on a saturday, you can just see her in the photo.
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Amazing! I only want to find out what was there. Now I'm finding out the name of a person that lived there. Brilliant, thanks Astonite.
This what this site is all about:thumbsup:
 
Frothblower said:
It's the mark of them chimney, surely they wouldn't have been built so close to the next building?
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Dont forget it is right by Aston station, a chimney some distance away could sheild the wall from soot marks from the steam trains.
 
Yes and the high blue containers you seen was the the start of west midlands waste paper industry which was next door to the pub .
which ran along the lichfield rd behind that wall where those little tiny shops was orininaly
some of you may or not know that the west midlands waste paper company started up by being next to the pub
which was on the right hand of the pub as you face the picture ; you can just climpse the gates of the pub but just out of sight
next to there pub gates was a set of old green gates and it was a little yard with a little shed with a office
and out side that office was an old fashioned pair of avery scales and every saturday morning we as kids in the area used to go arund the area competeing agaist each other up the lichfield rd door knocking every door for old news papers
we would use old push chairs to collect it and store it until the end of the week then you would get up at the crack of dawn to get down to
the yard and wait until they openend but more often than not the other kids would be there before you coming to weigh the news paper they collected
for pennies ; but as years went on it became a muliti thousand pound company
they later moved to big premises and yard along he lichfield rd which still went behind the pub and now they are down adderly st saltley
 
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