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The Spotted Dog - Bordesley Street and Meriden Street

www.midlandspubs.co.uk

www.midlandspubs.co.uk

Pub Historian
This story of this public-house has took me ages to piece together. However, I am reasonably pleased with the results and there is a plenty of interest on my page for what is one of the longest licences in Birmingham. Unlike many other public-houses, this one is a bona-fide original building - seems odd what has happened to the place. See : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/bordesley-street/spotted-dog.htm
 
I always thought it odd that there were so many pubs around Digbeth that had the same or similar names. Mostly there was just the Bull's Head but there were two Spotted Dogs as well (that one and Alcester St).
 
www.midlandspubs.co.uk said:
This story of this public-house has took me ages to piece together. However, I am reasonably pleased with the results and there is a plenty of interest on my page for what is one of the longest licences in Birmingham. Unlike many other public-houses, this one is a bona-fide original building - seems odd what has happened to the place. See : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/bordesley-street/spotted-dog.htm
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A really good write up as you say. Perhaps you'll be able to answer a question for me? I see that the landlady wasn't allowed to continue in the pub as she was a widow. This happened to my husband's grandmother at the Eagle in Park Lane, Aston. Was this common practice or because it was just after the war and there were many returning soldiers? I've come across many landladies in my research so they must have been allowed to stay.
 
Lady Penelope said:
A really good write up as you say. Perhaps you'll be able to answer a question for me? I see that the landlady wasn't allowed to continue in the pub as she was a widow. This happened to my husband's grandmother at the Eagle in Park Lane, Aston. Was this common practice or because it was just after the war and there were many returning soldiers? I've come across many landladies in my research so they must have been allowed to stay.
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It differed - generally if managing a pub for a brewery the company wanted a couple running the pub. If the husband died they were given what was called a "widow's year" during which they either married again or gave up the pub. I cannot help thinking that some women rushed into a marriage doomed to fail.
Tenants were different - I guess as long as the money rolled in the brewery let them get on with it.
Freeholders, of course, answered to nobody and could do what they wanted.
 
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