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The Bricklayers Arms

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Astonian

gone but not forgotten
HI GANG ,
Is There Any Of You Old Boozers , Or DOMINO Players , Or Dart
Players Ever Performed At This Very Busy Pub And Top League Players InThe Field Of The Pub Sports , This Pub As Been There For Donkey,s Years And
Still Open And Running , I Passed It The Other Day But I Took A Pic Of One Of Two Pubs For Maggieuk Which I Have Got To Down Load All Being Well .
The Pub Is On Icknield Port Rd Its Up The Road FromThe Freeth Arms And The Stags Head That Used To Be There Before They Built These New House
Of Course They Have Gone , The Old Crown Was Taken Over By Bill Langdon ,
And His First Shop I Recall Was At Spring hill A Small ShopHe Had For Years
Right Next Door To The Midland Bank At Spring hill Facing Old Billy Bulpitt ,
Then He Took Over The Crown A Very Large Show room That Was ,
I Had One Of His Son in Law Work The Door For Me With A Couple Of His Mates At Afew Of My Pubs ,
Those New Houses They Built Haven,t Got ANY character Nor Have The Streets Around There I Vistied King Edwards Rd ,And Stour Street And What A Big Mess The Council Have Made With Them
Old Steward Street Is Still Standing And Looking Very Battered And Smashed Up The Cross Keys Is Being Renovated Up To Posh Stanards
And The Old Black Smith And His Forge AS Gone ,
The Old Bright achrome Is Still Standing Looks Like Nuclear Bomb Went Through It AndI Know Its Been Like That For Years
And We Have A Nerve To Call B,ham The 2nd City ,Some-body As Lost The Plot And Having A LAUGH ,Have A Nice Day Every body , ASTONIAN ,;;
 
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Hello Astonian nice to meet you i am new to the forum just noticed your mention about the Bricklayers Arms my prents ran the pub way back in the 50s i very vivid memories of the area ..!
 
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hi lesped
welcome to our forum; i would have known your parents in that case ; and every chance i would remember you ;in your youth days ;
yes your parents worked there butts of there it was a great pub and always busy so you would remember the old pawn brokers on the corner
we would love to hear more from you and share your memories on the forum from your growing up days we have one or two members
from time to time from the green coming on you may even know them ; from around the corner in barford rd and heath stree t
les its nice to hear from you any think you want to know please asked on here any subject we have a great big bunch of people full of knowledge
and our jean and pete are explosive of knowledge them selves thats the great lady whom spoke to you on your last thread
i see they finalise the closing of the old nick [ the police station out side the park ] but its still standing aint it
do you remembe the kid they called roy orbinson because he look like him ; he lived up the terrace just along from the pub his name was roy as welll
have a great day and we all look foreward to hearing and seeing more of you on our great site best wishes astonian
 
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HiAstonion thanks for the welcome when i say i have vivid mems. from that era i am talking 4 to 9 years old i do remember the Coranation back in 53 i was 4 years old , of course i will let you have all the info i can remember. T hanks to Jean for my welcome also i'm sure she will read this thread .I dont remember the kid called Roy from the side of the pub but i did have a friend callled Roy he was the son of the folks that used to run the hardwhere shops on the Dudley Road the name over the door was R.V. Trevor maybe that might ring a bell .? I used to attend St Patricks R.C. school , yes i remember the old cop shop by the park and the chippy nexy to the Queens head pub they used to do battered chips 4 pence a bag absolutley wonderfull yes i hade many happy times there i will try to recall some more aspects of the place when i can once again thank you so much for getting back to me so prompty im' sure we can exchange many more memory's bye for now cheers n beers T.J ...! oh p.s. it might not have been called the Queens pub i might be having a senior moment there i stand to be corrected on that one ..! bottom of Icknield port road on the corner to the left on Dudley road ..!
 
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hi lesspeed
nice to hear from you again yes the queens head was at the bottom of dudley rd at spring hil on the corner of george st west and alibones was the opersite corne next to thequeens
and facing the other pub across the rd called the coach and horses the roy [ i am speaking of was the arkinasal family whom live inthe houses next to it
as is name was roy ; and he was a little stubby kid with the thick rimmed glasses we nicked named him roy orbinson . i know we should have not the micky out of him
but all us kids did around there called him that named he did not like it and he would tell us to hop it ina a frame of words
have a great day best wishes astonian
 
Barr Beacon,

Yes the Bricklayers Arms was a Davenports House as can be seen in this photo.

Phil

LadywoodIcknieldPortRdBricklayersArms.jpg
 
I remember the bricklayers well , i used to live att 222 incknield port road about 6 houses up from the pub, i went to barford road junior and infants school , oh happy days
 
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Hi Teta

I dated a young lady who lived somewhere around there in the early 60's for a very short while. She worked on the basement floor at Woolworth's in the Bull Ring she had long black hair and her name if I remember it correctly was Sandra. I don't suppose you remember her do you?

Phil
 
Oh yes that picture brings it all back i remember those two big lamps over the the end doors looking at tha picture the extreme left door was the bar entrance the middle was the off license and the righthand door was the way to the smoke room and snug.
 
Hi lessped ,
remember the shop very well it was on opposite side of road from me , cant remember name of it now but i recall an elderly lady owned it and she had a son called peter he was maybe 30ish . There was also a grocery shop a few doors up again the name escapes me , my mom used to get food n the tab from him , how times change.
 
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Hi Phil.
I remember a Sandra Cunningham she was about 19 she was a neighbour has a few brothers.
 
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Hi Teta

Sorry I never knew her last name but in 1963 / 64 she would have been about 16 or 17 all I remember is she was a pretty girl with long dark hair and she lived in a house much the same as my own in Nechells a one down an two up house with a door on the street and one in the entry.

Phil
 
I recall there was a sweet shop directly opposit the bricklayers arms that to was a little old lady her name i think was Mrs Green yes thats it Green it sticks in my mind cos my mother had to take a kitkat back that i had bought she noticed it had been nibbled by mice .. the things you could get away with in tho's days .!
 
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Just A QUIKKIE do you remember a family called the Bishops they lived at bottom of Iknield port road just before the Dudley road junction ? .!
 
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hi lepeed
i most certainly do they lived in freeth street opperste the old coop ware houseing they lived in the end house facing the ware house
and i can recall the father and the son and there daughter whom i was very pally if you know what i mean her name was sandra
over the years i have often wondered what ever happenend to her and do you remember the little cafe at the bottom of the port
one night escorting a young lady home late of a night there big dog escaped she screamed and i jumped in behind her to protect and i got bit on the back the side it made me shout out and she said sorry about my fualt then the owner came chasing the dog and said sorry i had a big bite mark on my rear end so to speak
best wishes astonian
 
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hi guys live round the corner from the bricklayers and i went to barford school do you remember pimms pet shop on ick port road before the pub and the old betting office come futher down as if your goin to five ways was the queens head nick liperis chippy the butchers and greengrocers and coxs bakery at the top of my street coplow street good old days lived on this side for 49 yrs
 
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Hi all peeps i'm still alive and kicking apart from having my big toenails removed all is well , may i just pose another little question at the bottom of ick. port road was of course the Dudley road and on reaching that junction then turning right as if going towards Spring Hill just along there about 50 yards there was an Ironmongers shop the name above the door was R.V.Trevor i was wondering is any body remembers the shop and maybe the folks who owened it Thanks :pride:
 
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Ahh yes i defo . remember that chippy mmm 3d worth of chips they were 4d but he took pity on us kids he was a realy nice man as i recall oh yes and we also loved the battered chips my mouth is watering just thinking bout them now :tongue:
 
hi lessped;
sorry to have missed out on some of your memory,s but i have been extremely busy of late ;
just a quick flash back in my memo,s regarding the cunninghams ; i was a friend of theres and tony especialy and the whole family
i recall most familys around those back streets we probaly know alot of them like myself i recall the chippy [ that being the orinional one
the one you are speaking about also when they closed down and ceased tradeing the other one openened up by a guy named chris
a nice guy and his family ran it next to the cop shop ; for a decade or two and the two guys whom came from bradford they had ginger hair
and worked for pimms in his storage yard shed around on ickneild port rd whom i got to know very well and have a drink in the old brick layers arms
it was crammed with tortises about three foot high piled with these pets ; they used to get there fish and chips free and pay chris at the end of the week
when old pimms payed them but chris used to do it most of the kids on the tabb so to speak as you may or not know ;
he used to have his little son ; whom also is chris used to do his dads spuds out the back ;and bring them in to the fryer ; for him ;
wel young chriss is a fully grown man now and he as his own chippy over at the fold kigs norton he as been there for years
we discussed his dad and he told me it was the down fall of his bussiness because most of them never paid him for the food he gave them
thats being feling sorry for folks his dad died peniless and it was some think he had whatched and learnt from his father ; he would never do it himself
sandra and the family lived in shakespear rd just up the spring hill on monument rd next to the wahabs family whom was also a very good friend
this guy i will not name for reasons because we have another friend whom was his best mate whom also is a member on this forum
so if i say the word micky midnight our other friend on here will know whom i mean; midnight is not is surname it was is nick name
astonian
 
I Remember the gaffer of the Brick being a Kevin Lawless, and his poor long suffering wife, cant think of her name now. When Kevin was on his day off, he would go off drinking all day. One evening at about 8.45pm, he staggered into the back lounge, and ordered everyone out of the pub, and laid into his poor Mrs for allowing people to be drinking after time without his permission. It took us all a while to get him to realise that it was only early evening, he really was that buckled!
 
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Astonian - further to my recent posts re Summerfield Park-keepers, I found this older thread of yours the other day. It prompted me to dig out the family history to see how closely associated the family must have been with the Brick. My Burton ancestors moved into the Port in the early 1860s - my great-grandfather was born in the James Buildings just north of the Brick - think the address might have become 1/188. Over the years the ancestors have also lived in Eleanor Terrace opposite Gillott Road, and at 209, 215, 219, 222, 220 - all either side of the Brick - Uncle Eric also kept the outdoor on the corner of the Port and Summerfield Road for a while. It's a shame that none of them ever lived in 217 which I think still stands next to the Brick (218?). I was born in Irving Street (house cleared) but moved to the Port in 1957, into 166, opposite Pimms, where my dad worked. 166 was later compulsorily purchased and demolished for a proposed road widening of the Port that never happened. The site of the house is now incorporated into the park so I can at least go and stand on the spot where I lived - and under the tree that was once in our garden! Dad tended to use the Queens Head as his local (it had a fishing club!) but a lot of my ancestors must have used the Brick, certainly a lot of the Pimms folk did. In answer to Teta13 the little greengrocers just south of the outdoor was run by a lady called Clara Gibson with her son Peter. Must check to see if there is a Pimms thread on the forum - if not, perhaps I had better start one. I did put something about Pimms on the Old Ladywood website a couple of years back but it didn't generate much interest.
 
Found this old photo of the Brick yesterday (in a box belonging to my grandmother) - date - mid thirties? - I can just make out George Pittaway on the licensee plate over the door - it shows some sort of gathering outside the Brick - notice the bunting and people in their Sunday best? - some with buttonholes? - is that a football by the girls at the front? - wonder why my grandfather, Jack Burton, is on his bike?
Bricklayers Arms - Granddad on Bike.jpg
 
Another old photo from grandmother's box - possibly mid thirties - my grandfather outside another pub! - fifth from left at the back - nice hat - pub not recognisable to me - any offers - might be somewhere else in the Port - it's not his other local, the Queen's Head - but might though be a pub outing - as some men have bunches of flowers - to take home?
Another Pub - Granddad hatted at back 5th from left.jpg
 
Hi malverian
Yes its the brick alright no question about it ,on the second photograh showing amongest the gentlemen
There is one or two guys I think I would have k own as there faces look habit familiar to me from all those years back of yesterdays
But I will have to study them longer for there faces to come to life in my memory
On the subject of Pimms there is not a thread subject on the Pimms I joined here about eleven years ago on this forum
And I did a couple of bits of Pimms and there business and shops but as we all know this site was hacked and every think was lost
Lots of pictures and peoples thread diapeared but saying that I have noticed there is one or two reappearing now
Which is thanks to some of our good forum friends whom kept copies
I knew the pins and so did an old friend of mine from way back in the fortys and fifths whom got in solved with them closely than me
I remember going down there back with two lads whom worked for them from Bradford whom I got to know very well
And in there shed of Pimms was a mountain of tortoises must have been about four feet high all on top of each other
Ready to be shipped down to the bull ring I also recall the shop opersite gilliot red
As I have previously said it was my woods the port and the whole of that area and all my locals haunts nightly
I was very well known in the area from one end to another
I will study the faces and comeback on this one and may I had I seem to recall the second outing all out side getting there picture taken
And yes most certainly not the queens head that i know for certain one of the guys just lived about two hundred yards from there
Whom was the Birmingham city mortuary officer whom handled all the bodies
And then there was the cat snatchers along there from the bricks in the sixtys they was prosecuted
And there was a family whom broke into the hospital morg and cut off an head of a body he was a crack head on high druggs
He was locked up for some time
I do not think Pimms was ever on the Ladywood site so you may be able to start one here or on there site ,
I will come back to you soon merry christmas happy new year Astonian,,,,
 
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