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Queens Hotel Stephenson Street

An early drawing of The Queens & North Western Hotel in it's early glory days. It was quite an impressive hotel in it's day, but as Birmingham grew I suppose it's proximity to the noisy and smelly station didn't help it any.

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The hotel dining room. Looks quite modest in this photo given the importance of the hotel. Maybe it was one of several ? No date for this one but at a guess probably 1940s/50s ?

Viv

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W.J Livock was engineer for the hotel and offices in Stephenson Street. Completed in June 1854, it was demolished during 1964.

The top two storeys and the towers were a later addition.
 
Thought you might like to see this photograph of my grandfather, Albert Hodson, a Brummie boy who worked as a page boy at the Queen's Hotel before he moved South for work. He's probably about 16 or 17 here. This is just before the Great War.Albert Hodson as a pageboy.jpg
 
wow what a great photo and a wonderful addition to this thread thanks for sharing it with us all

lyn
 
Yes it's hard to imagine that no so long after this he was at the Battle of the Somme as a Bombardier with the RFA. Best wishes Rachel
 
Just read a book called "Artic Rescue" written by a survivor of the sinking of the HMS Glorious aircraft carrier. The author Ronald Healiss talks of his time at The queens Hotel, Birmingham where he worked in the kitchen, probably in the butchery section as he specialised in this area and was an apprentice chef with British Railways Hotels. He decided to join the Royal Marines just before the outbreak of World War 11 in 1933. 1629030640266.png
 
Would anyone like the above.. Came across the site whilst researching some old business cards I found. This is a particularly nice one. It's free to a good home and refers to the American bar at the Queens Hotel in Birmingham
 
A sad end...

'...Birmingham inquest to-day on Lawrence Vernon Battersby (aged 36), a barman at a city hotel, who was found gassed in the kitchen of his home at 87. Pershore Road...'

6 Nov 1944, Bham Mail.

Appears it was possibly the after effects of his time in the army.
 
Oldstuff said:
Would anyone like the above.. Came across the site whilst researching some old business cards I found. This is a particularly nice one. It's free to a good home and refers to the American bar at the Queens Hotel in Birmingham
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hi oldstuff if the card has already not found a new home i would like it please with a view to trying to trace any of lawences family who may like the card especially given the sad circumstances leading to his death...i have sent you a private message

lyn
 
Astoness said:
hi oldstuff if the card has already not found a new home i would like it please with a view to trying to trace any of lawences family who may like the card especially given the sad circumstances leading to his death...i have sent you a private message

lyn
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Lyn, they appear to have had one son who married and had 2 sons before they all emigrated to New Zealand in the early 1950s.
 
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