my great aunt rose had a grocers shop on Great Hampton Row in the 1920s - husband Percival Leonard PhillipsHere's a nice picture of Gt Hampton Row sent to me by a cousin in America we think its around 1900.
The gaffer of The Pelican in the 80s was a chap called Ray. He later took over The Church Inn where he sold Batham's Best Bitter and did really good meals. Happy days, don't know what it's like now.Ah, the Little Brown Jug! The only place you could get beer worse than there was just round the corner in the Pelican - Yuk!
Hi Lyn, yes it was Ray and Pat in the Church Inn. Sadly I didn't start drinking there until around 1991. Great pub and good beer. Got on well with Ray and I've got some photographs somewhere of his last day at The Pelican showing him locking up the pub for the last time.hi BB do you mean ray and wife pat if so i worked for them when they had the pelly think they used to have the fox in hurst st but that would have been in the late 70s i think...i used the church inn in the early 70s when wilf had it..many happy hours spent in there i can tell you
lyn
Thanks for that, Lyn.BB can i lead you to this thread...im sure you will know the lady in the video and could you post your pics of ray on that thread not this one please...
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...an-pub-gt-king-st-unett-st.46536/#post-570642