Hi Carol
What year are you referring to regards the fireman, because i know it was the fireman
As i was a local in early years have you got the right pub in and the rignt years
I can only say it must had been later years after the sixty,s
When they change lodge road around and the alteration of the flat
They blocked off you driving up lodge road and they built a big block of flats
Right on the corner where the pub was on the corner of park road
If you recall the terace houses half way up the hill on your right hand
The pub which was on the corner and walk up the hill to the houses there was big yards and terraces
I used to go out with a girl named Sylvia from the terrace next to it
In the fifties and sixty one period and when you crossed over the road and walked up the hill
On the opersite side facing Scibonas bakery that was the Hydralic pub
And my sister inlaw now whom i knew her before i got married to my old dutchess tess
Whom is her elder sister we used to court in her house
Lived two doors next to the Hydralic and if we came kut of the front door and crossed over
And walked back down for about eighty yards that was the old fireman
And in the summer months there was scores of people and familys on a ,summer evening
All from the terraces sitting on the stools they brought out side with there kids
On wednesday this week i am travelling to birmingham ,i am going to ,king standing
And I Am Attending my 1st Cousin,s funetal at Witton Lodge Cemetry whom i was very close to
From young to old age ,
And I Shall be meeting my younger brother whom lives in kingsheath for the first time in twenty years
And he his the young brother whom spent is time in all those pubs with friends of the area
Mainly the one on the corner and the fireman and one abit further up park street
Roy is his name and he was a very popular guy friends of the cotteralls and the fisher family
Was his main drinking partner
I will asked him the question about the fireman pub and i will come back to you on this
But i am eighty percecnt sure it was the firreman in those days
Best wishes Alan,,,Astonian,,,