The Brewer And Baker..ravenhurst St

[Astoness]

dated..1989

 

[ellbrown]

That's the pub at Camp Hill Circus that is closed / boarded up, and keeps getting vandalised.

Isn't it between Camp Hill and Old Camp Hill?

 

[Astoness]

ive no idea ell..i can only put what the caption say but if you know this pub then you must be right...

cheers..

 

[ellbrown]

I see it from the bus when I go to or leave town.

Near the Seventh Day Aventist Church place.

 

[Phil]

Lyn

It is the Brewer & Baker on Ravenhurst St at Camp Hill before it got isolated on a little island. It used to be a good pub and the gaffer (I think his name was Don) used to come down to out local for a drink occasionally and sometimes we would pop up there.

I think the problem with the pub is unless you are driving you take your life in your hands getting to it and coupled with the fact there is very little housing in the vicinity of the pub all this combines to make a recipe for failure.



Phil

 

[Astoness]

great phil..its nice to have a bit of info where we can...once again its a shame thats it is yet another disused pub...

 

[robert]

I remember a few years back listening to a debate as to weather or not this pub was dissmantaled and then rebuilt brick by brick on a site some 100 yds from its origanal site. I had to leave before a conclusion was reached. Does anyone know what the outcome may have been.

 

[Phil]

Robert

It was never moved it was just refurbished and everything removed from around it. Where it is now is where it has always been. If you look at this photo of Camp Hill in the 60's the B & B was just down Ravenhurst St from the Cafe on the corner. I used the B & B in the 60's before all the demolition and I used it in the 70's when Don was the Landlord.

Phil

 

[robert]

Shame you was'nt there Phil with that photo. I seem to remember that one of them said that the bricks were numbered and if you looked closley the numbers were still visable. Its amazing what you hear just having a pint while the wifes shopping.

 

[Vivienne14]

The Brewer and Baker pub is still there, rotting away on its little island Viv.

 

[ellbrown]

Both ways on the bus today, couldn't but help notice that the roof on the left had been burnt out. Maybe an arson attack?

Was a lot of broken tiles on the pavement outside the derelict pub building of the Brewer and Baker at Camp Hill.

Wonder when it got targeted?

Hopefully it can be repaired. But it needs a future, not just left abandoned near a busy road junction.

 

[ellbrown]

What's left of The Brewer and Baker derelict pub. No repairs since last years fire. Still tiles on the ground. Overgrown grass. Seen from the top deck of the no 31 bus on Camp Hill.

 

[Nick clarke]

Robert

It was never moved it was just refurbished and everything removed from around it. Where it is now is where it has always been. If you look at this photo of Camp Hill in the 60's the B & B was just down Ravenhurst St from the Cafe on the corner. I used the B & B in the 60's before all the demolition and I used it in the 70's when Don was the Landlord.

Phil

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Hi
I know post is old but I don’t suppose you have any other Ravenhurst Street pictures do you. My dad lived there in the40’s to the 60’s and he’s desperate to find some
Thank you
Nick

 

[Astoness]

will have look tomorrow nick and post if i have any..i take it ravenhurst st has been demolished

lyn

 

[Phil]

Hi Nick

Sorry these are the only two I could come up with, one of the Moseley Arms on the corner of Moseley Road that backed on to Grooms Transport yard.The other is of the Alms houses that were just inside Ravenhurst Street at the Camp Hill end.

 

[Nick clarke]

will have look tomorrow nick and post if i have any..i take it ravenhurst st has been demolished

lyn

Yes all gone now. Dad was born there and desperate for any pictures please. I guess even the area around?? I have just shown him the one of the corner and he was made up.
Cjeers

Nick

 

[Astoness]

fingers crossed

lyn

 

[Elmdon Boy]

Brewer and Baker is still standing, much like ellbrown picture. Went passed it on Tuesday

 

[Jean Stanton]

Hi
I know post is old but I don’t suppose you have any other Ravenhurst Street pictures do you. My dad lived there in the40’s to the 60’s and he’s desperate to find some
Thank you
Nick

Hi Nick, I've only recently started using the forum to add some background to my ancestry search. I don't have any pictures, unfortunately, and, like you, delighted to find the photos posted by other members on this thread. My great-grandparents, John and Ellen Neal, were living at 21, Ravenhurst Street from 1911 and Neal's were living there right up until my grandad Tom Neal's death in 1971, so I'm sure your Dad would have known them. I believe my grandad was living there with his sister and brother-in-law, Jane and Victor Fox, in the 50s/60s, along with their sister Fanny and brother George. Apparently they had a wire-making factory in the back yard! My grandad Tom was a drover and then foreman at the Meat Market.

 

[ellbrown]

Got another photo of The Brewer & Baker coming home on the bus today. Fly tipping in the car park to the left.

 

[shaz45]

Does anyone know who owns this
I would like to know why it’s been abandoned fir so many years

your comments will be really appreciated

 

[Bish Bong]

I first went into the Brewer & Baker in 1957 as an eighteen year old with a friend who was a year older than me. We went there as it was known as the cider house, where you could get Scrumpy, had a few sore heads by going there.

 

[JONrb211]

I used to go to the Brewer when I was eighteen (1975) , the lads would meet there on a Thursday night and then on
Saturday night with our girlfriends . It was only a small pub but it had a lovely atmosphere in there.
Such a shame to see the state it is in now.

 

[Astoness]

Does anyone know who owns this
I would like to know why it’s been abandoned fir so many years

your comments will be really appreciated

sorry shaz i dont know who owns this pub...possibly the council but thats only a guess

lyn

 

[pjmburns]

No idea now but at one time it was Woverhampton and Dudley Brewery.

 

[mrsteve38]

I used to live on Ravenhurst Street (back in 70s). remember it as a nice pub. Used to get served the odd half (I was only 15) as I was a bread boy and it was on our round (Hawley's bakery)...
I moved to London, but still follow the Blues so pop up now and then. Area has changed a lot (so has Brum) and I don't think it's for the better...

 

[tadpolespam11]

dated..1989

I used to work as a barmaid at this lovely pub! I need to know if this is a proper site before I post anything more. X

 

[tadpolespam11]

Now I know this is a genuine site I can add quite a lot from memories of this wonderful pub! I was with my boyfriend at the time Jimmy Duffy when we frequented this pub regularly. We loved it.
We knew all the regulars going back to 1974. Every Sunday we would congregate there after the football match which was our local football team Claremont Rangers!
We all knew each other and we used to go back to each others houses after closing now and again. I got into a fight at one of the parties over a fried egg sandwich but that is another story! Some of our friends at the the time was Eddie Lynch, Tommy Broderick and i think his other half was June though i know they sadly parted,just to name a couple. I worked as barmaid there for a while and I remember we used get a lot of police officers pop in from Bradford St police station. Brilliant memories of my youth and the friends we had. Sadly like most we all moved on and settled down. But never forgotten!! If anyone remembers this time I would be made up !! X

 

[jakemor1]

Now I know this is a genuine site I can add quite a lot from memories of this wonderful pub! I was with my boyfriend at the time Jimmy Duffy when we frequented this pub regularly. We loved it.
We knew all the regulars going back to 1974. Every Sunday we would congregate there after the football match which was our local football team Claremont Rangers!
We all knew each other and we used to go back to each others houses after closing now and again. I got into a fight at one of the parties over a fried egg sandwich but that is another story! Some of our friends at the the time was Eddie Lynch, Tommy Broderick and i think his other half was June though i know they sadly parted,just to name a couple. I worked as barmaid there for a while and I remember we used get a lot of police officers pop in from Bradford St police station. Brilliant memories of my youth and the friends we had. Sadly like most we all moved on and settled down. But never forgotten!! If anyone remembers this time I would be made up !! X

Hello tadpolespam I started drinking in the Brewers when I was eighteen years old in 1975. My older brother Alec Tynan
was a good friend of Eddie Lynch and we both went to his funeral. I remember his brothers, Bert Isaac and Franno.
Had some wonderful times in that pub especially the staybacks.
I wonder if you might have known Billy Jones or Paul Burns

 

[poolpit]

Not been that way for years last time was before Camp junction was altered, in the early sixties on Thursday nights (pay day) used to meet up in the Brewer for a chinwag with some of the lads who worked for the same firm but on different sites throughout the town.