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Old street pics..
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brumgum
Proud to be a Brummie!
Thank's, did part of Lawrence Street disappear and become Ryder Street?.
coerl21
master brummie
I think the 5th picture of Alum Rock shows "Stannards" which I think was a stationers. As a schoolboy I remember buying fountain pens there. It was always a ritual - having selected your pen it was pumped up with ink using the little lever on the side, followed by a few words of copperplate - then wrapped in tissue. Service ....what ever happened to it?
Paul
Paul
pretty ive not seen this one before...great shot of the bartons arms and the hippodrome dated 1972....high st to the left of the bartons and potters hill to the right...barton st first right just past the hip (white car) potters hill then running up over park lane and up to victoria road...what i love about this one is we can still some of the old buildings at the top end of potters hill...lyn
Great photo Lyn. It's like the remaining buildings are waiting their turn to be demolished, but I know the Barton's is still there. Is the Elbow Room? Lurched out of there many Saturday nights and stood opposite waiting for a cab. Had some great times. Viv.
hi viv...yes i dont think the remaining buildings would have been up much longer...elbow room and the building on the corner still there..viv thats the first time ive ever heard of anyone lurching out of a night club lol...never went in it myself...
lyn
lyn
'Lurching' is a special skill Lyn which can only to be achieved under the influence of many rum and blacks, a barley wine or two and a good blast of fresh air on exiting the building!
Thanks Ell. Don't really know what to make of the drums! The Elbow Room always looked out of place next to the Hipp but oddly now blends in a little more. Viv.
Radiorails
master brummie
You can get the same effect with real farmhouse cider (scrumpy). I think cider is the cheaper of the two and you get it in pints.:tranquillity:
brumgum
Proud to be a Brummie!
The interior of the Red Lion amazes me, not sure what's happening to it now but it must be threatened. How could a building like this not be snapped up by someone..
https://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/national-inventory-entry.asp?pubid=166
https://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/national-inventory-entry.asp?pubid=166
Brings back some fond memory's especially when the front suspension on my mates Vauxhall Wyvern collapsed just about where this photo was taken, typical mechanics car
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Oisin
gone but not forgotten
What a great collection of pictures.
Post No. 10 I remember the Victory Cafe was a bit further from town than Snowhill. I used it when I worked at Cannings and the cafe was dead opposite, where Livery Street runs into Gt. Hampton Row. I believe there's a nursery on that site now.
Post No. 10 I remember the Victory Cafe was a bit further from town than Snowhill. I used it when I worked at Cannings and the cafe was dead opposite, where Livery Street runs into Gt. Hampton Row. I believe there's a nursery on that site now.
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Yes it was a fantastic gloriuos pub i always finished my milk rund of handsworth there in the sixtys and we used it as a passing through pubwhen we and my mates done the pub crawl from spring hill to the brook ; [hockley ] right up to the boundry of west bromwich at the old star and garter
and end up at the monticala club on soho rd after closing time and spent the night until sixx in the morning drinking barli wines and getting sober for work
unfortunealate it was let down by management and later was taken over by an asian family manament and the windows never got cleaned as well as the interior
so the regular custers dived across the road to the barrell pub a little quaint pub ; then it was closed down after looseing its trade of customers ;
best wishes Astonian;;
and end up at the monticala club on soho rd after closing time and spent the night until sixx in the morning drinking barli wines and getting sober for work
unfortunealate it was let down by management and later was taken over by an asian family manament and the windows never got cleaned as well as the interior
so the regular custers dived across the road to the barrell pub a little quaint pub ; then it was closed down after looseing its trade of customers ;
best wishes Astonian;;
brumgum
Proud to be a Brummie!
It annoys me that a pub such as this is left to rot, i could spit:livid:. Here's some more pictures, i would say it's interior is only second to the Bartons. Picture is from digital Handsworth.Must have been a Holt's pub initially.
https://www.drdportfolio.com/?sale=red-lion-hotel
brumgum
Proud to be a Brummie!
All these but for this pub it would be population change also, Handsworth is now very multi cultural but so is the area around the Bartons and the Black Eagle is just down the road and both these are very successful so it could work if the right owner took possession.
https://www.theblackeaglepub.co.uk/
Re: THE BULL RING
And here is exactly the same view from the tragic war years, dated 6 May 1941. From the Daily Mirror archive, most recent additions on their website
https://www.mirrorpix.com/webgate/preview.php?UURL=b57609715ad1e1c1076b6358b9c40b99&IMGID=00465673
And here is exactly the same view from the tragic war years, dated 6 May 1941. From the Daily Mirror archive, most recent additions on their website
https://www.mirrorpix.com/webgate/preview.php?UURL=b57609715ad1e1c1076b6358b9c40b99&IMGID=00465673
