Angel Hotel - Stratford Road Sparkbrook

[mikejee]

Rob.
The post you refer to was a very old one. The midlandpubs site has been reorganized since then and does not now seem to have a section on Stratford road

 

[123bluenose456]

The former Angel Inn is now an Asian buffet restaurant called Manjaros. Before that it was Ismails a Steak House.

 

[123bluenose456]

Kieron, Can't seem to find a link to Stratford rd

Here's an advert for the Angel Hotel from the 1890's

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My dad ran this pub in 1967,it was next door to the laundry at the time and I went Ladypool Rd junior school next door.Its customers were mainly Irish and travlers , it still had the dumb waiter working.
The Buffalo's had a meeting room on the 1st floor.And a club room down stairs at the rear called the padded cell. IN 1969 when M &B had some floors replaced my dad found gold sovereigns and half soverins under the floors.

 

[Vivienne14]

Nice piece of history. Thanks Bluenose. Viv.

 

[Sten Thomas]

Kieron, Never been inside the pub. Strangely , going away from city centre the next pub on the same side of the road is the Saracens head in Shirley.

 

[Steve Chambers]

Hello my father ran this pub in 1967

And my Father and mother ran it in the 1980s

 

[adap2it]

My brother worked at Velocette during the 50's and I believe that they held their Christmas dance at the Angel, could that be possible?
Dave A

 

[wessex]

I remember Gordon Green who ran the Chestnuts back in the 80s was gaffer at the Angel in the 60s.

 

[Pedrocut]

“Built in the eighteenth century, the Angel Inn on the Stratford Road was then a coach-ride out of town and boasted a fine tea garden. This engraving shows an old stage coach which had passed through the toll-bar on the Stratford Road; also visible is the side-bar at the entrance to Ladypool Lane. (From R. K. Dent's, "The Making of Birmingham”, 1894.)