Pubs Of The Past

[Phil]

Hi AJP

I knew Brian Collins and the two Harris brothers that lived next door they were related I think. I also knew the Price brothers that lived in the first maisonette past the shop. My grandmother also worked at the greengrocers that you mention that would have been about the mid 50's.

 

[AJP]

Sounds about right Phil i remember the name Harris as well, the greengrocer was two doors down they had apple trees in the garden & there was a man who used to throw us apples over when we visited my nan. Do you remember Kays grocery
shop where my nan worked? they had loads of biscuits in square tins with glass tops & jars of sweets.

 

[BusyLizzie]

Hi Every one, I seem to be always asking about pubs ,anyway does any one know or have a pic of the Reservoir Tavern in Eyre St Birmingham I have found it in the 1888 Kelly's Directory of Birmingham,but would love to know more. my husbands Great Great Grandfather used to run it in the 1880's. Best regards lizzie

 

[AJP]

Hi Lizzie. I believe this is it.
Go here & scroll down the page till you come to it.https://www.oldladywood.co.uk/memories3.htm

 

[BusyLizzie]

Hi AJP, thanks for that, i have just been on the site,its really good on there.Love all the pics. many thanks Lizzie

 

[AJP]

Hi AJP, thanks for that, i have just been on the site,its really good on there.Love all the pics. many thanks Lizzie

You are very welcome:friendly_wink:

 

[BusyLizzie]

Hi Lovely to see the" New Inns" Holyhead Road Handsworth, My grandad ,dad, and uncle seemed to have spent most of their spare time in there. We lived in Church Terrace Holyhead Road,which was only a short distance away, Lizzie

 

[AJP]

Hi AJP

I knew Brian Collins and the two Harris brothers that lived next door they were related I think. I also knew the Price brothers that lived in the first maisonette past the shop. My grandmother also worked at the greengrocers that you mention that would have been about the mid 50's.

Hey Phil did you know the Gilbert's they lived in the same maisonette's. My sister said my nan's was right opposite the cafe' & that we used to get sweets from the machines outside it. My aunt Val used to go out with one of the Gilbert's.

 

[stevencath11]

Hi there I am new to the site, just wanted to know if anyone has any old photos of The Barley Mow in Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield and also Sportsman Inn, John Street in Lozells, as my family ran both of this pubs between 1881 - 1911.
Thanks Cath

 

[Stitcher]

1928.
The Camebridge Inn on the corner of Crescent Wharf and Camebridge Street.

 

[Stitcher]

I posted some time ago that the Gospel Oak Pub in Hall Green had become a Co-Op food store, here is a recent photo.

 

[Stitcher]

This was in todays newspaper.

 

[Phil]

The Clifton in better times, it was in it's day a reasonable pub.

 

[paul stacey]

I have had a pint or two in "The Clifton", when I lived on Hagley Road, SAD!!
paul

 

[AJP]

I have had a pint or two in "The Clifton", when I lived on Hagley Road, SAD!!
paul

Me too when me & my mate had a cafe in Taunton Road used to go in there before we hit the town on saturdays Locarno, samantha's, rebecca's etc etc.
Used to buy a tie from chippy next to locarno to get in.

 

[paul stacey]

WOW !! AJP, NO TIE??. what years did you patron the LOCARNO, in my day early sixty's, everyone wore a tie, and suit, and had shiny shoes, well couldn't pull otherwise.
paul

 

[AJP]

WOW !! AJP, NO TIE??. what years did you patron the LOCARNO, in my day early sixty's, everyone wore a tie, and suit, and had shiny shoes, well couldn't pull otherwise.
paul

If we knew we where going clubbing, went out in suit & tie ( used to have shirts & ties made of same fabric.) started clubbing 70 onward.
Lol 60's ties were thin with straight bottom, 70's wide kipper ties. prefer 60's.

 

[Phil]

AJP

What Café in Taunton Rd did you have, and I suppose that M & J's on Ladypool Rd was closed by the time you were strutting your stuff in the 70's.

 

[Phil]

A photo of the Brighton just up the lane a bit from the Clifton on the corner of Brighton Rd, the gaffer from our local the Talbot moved down here in about 1973 his name was Jimmy Rushton. We popped down to see him occasionally, but I was never much enamoured of the pub. Anybody know if its still open?

 

[paul stacey]

Yep!, drank here too, very seldom though, my regular watering hole when on the Hagley, was the "Ivy Bush",
paul

 

[AJP]

AJP

What Café in Taunton Rd did you have, and I suppose that M & J's on Ladypool Rd was closed by the time you were strutting your stuff in the 70's.

Was called Mick & Barbs we took it over from them & left name the same. Did you see my earlier post about Vincent St Phil?

 

[Phil]

AJP

As this conversation has little to do with public houses I will answer you on the Balsall Heath thread.

 

[Phil]

Just been told on another forum that The Dog & Partridge on the corner of Windsor Street and what was once Ashted Row is to close at the end of the month. What a shame as it has lasted out this long when everything around it has disappeared. I know that there are photos of this pub on the forum already but I think it deserves this one in remembrance.

 

[carolina]

At the back of Rackhams by Bull Street and North Western Arcade there was a hotel called The Caledonian, does anyone know what the name of the pub it was changed into?

 

[Ray Barrett]

Carol,
Are you thinking of "The Old Royal" in Temple Row ?.There was a very small pub near there known as the "Corner Cupboard",but can't remember exactly where it was...

 

[carolina]

Ray in Kellys book in the 1940s it was The Caledonian, but after the 60s it was a kinda 'ladies of the night' pub. I just cant remember the name - dont get me wrong I not hankering after the profession, just the name of the pub. lol.....

 

[Phil]

Ray,

I think you are correct about the Old Royal Hotel it was on the corner of Bradford Passage, it moved down to the Red Lion in Church St and renamed it the Old Royal. The original was replaced by Rackhams in the 60's I believe. The Corner Cupboard was a little walk away on the corner of Union Passage & Union St on the other side of the passage to Kunzles Restaurant and cake shop.

 

[Ray Barrett]

Thanks Phil,I have never seen a photo of the "Corner Cupboard" before,it was very tiny inside. Carol,The Old Royal,was infamous for "ladies of the night",it also had some beautiful oak paneling inside...it was well worth a visit,never took my wife in there though.

 

[DavidGrain]

Perhaps that is were the phrase "Back of Rackhams" came from because I never saw anything untoward in that area.

 

[mossg]

Hi Carolina,could you be thinking of The Clarendon which stood on the corner of Temple Row and Temple St.I think a pub called The Sputnik replaced it in the 1960s.