i am posting this photo for new member bob lees which shows his grandad far left next to the barman standing outside the pelican pub at 37 gt king st..i think this could be a rare photo i certainly have not seen one before..as you will read from below info from mikejee (thanks mike) it was previously called the pilgrim tavern..also posting map dated 1889...just to add that a new pelican pub was built on the corner of barr st and hockley st probably in the 1960s ..i worked there during the 1980s..building still there but no longer a pub
lyn
The 1921 Kellys does not list an Albert Thorne. at a pub.or indeed at all at any commercial premises.. However the 1923 edition, which would probably refer to 1922. listed Albert Thorne at no 37 Great king St, as a beer retailer. that pub is named in the 1940 edition as The Pelican. (at that time the only pub in Brum listed in Kellys under that name.).. Albert Thorne and Mary Jane Thorne are listed there on the electoral rolls from 1922 till 1945, but had gone by 1947. The Pelican seems to have disappeared from Great King St between 1957 and 1960. (as did a lot of other listings in the area. Earlier , on the c1889 map the pub is called The Pilgrim Tavern.
lyn
The 1921 Kellys does not list an Albert Thorne. at a pub.or indeed at all at any commercial premises.. However the 1923 edition, which would probably refer to 1922. listed Albert Thorne at no 37 Great king St, as a beer retailer. that pub is named in the 1940 edition as The Pelican. (at that time the only pub in Brum listed in Kellys under that name.).. Albert Thorne and Mary Jane Thorne are listed there on the electoral rolls from 1922 till 1945, but had gone by 1947. The Pelican seems to have disappeared from Great King St between 1957 and 1960. (as did a lot of other listings in the area. Earlier , on the c1889 map the pub is called The Pilgrim Tavern.
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