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The Tripe House, Digbeth

The main advantage of tripe was that it was cheap and nutritious, so was quite heavily consumed
 
i loved it with viginar on it.when i was young, Before it is cleaned and bleached it is green,disgusting looking stuff.tripe.jpg
 
Thanks for the image. Looks most unappetising. Can't imagine having a slice of that in me wrap.
Thank you very much for pointing me in the direction of other posts on 'tripe'.
 
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That’s such an atmospheric photo Lyn. Are those rods holding up the buildings ? Viv.
 
demolished before our time i think rob

viv those rods have been discussed before on the forum and if memory serves me right we could not come up with a conclusive answer but to help hold up the buildings was one of the ideas..i also wondered if they were to pull down shop blinds but they look too long for that

lyn
 
I never saw the discussion about those rods, so here is my take on them.
It appears that the workman has dug up, or is repairing the pavement. The windows on No.23 are open which suggests repairs or work going on inside the property. Given that the time of the photo would be when mainly horses and carts used the roadways. I suggest it is a type of barrier to stop people and the horses going on the pavement. I don't think Digbeth was a wide roadway at the time.
I know in an earlier post about the tripe house a question was raised, but not answered as far as I recall, about the lion
 
Yes Alan, I raised the question about the lion on the Digbeth thread, but no reply.

Was also trying to work out where exactly the Tripe House once stood on Digbeth and the answer was provided by Phil in the Digbeth thread. He says “it was located at 24 Digbeth just down from St Martins Church and a few doors up from Upper Mill Street. If you look at the map I have marked number 24 .....”

Presumably it was somewhere not far from Digbeth Coach Station. Viv.

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Presumably, at the time, No.23 would next up, on the map (post 14) and it is interesting that access to the rear of 23 was from Moat Lane.
 
Dennis Williams posted the article below on the Artists who painted Birmingham thread in post #116. It contains a little snippet of the architecture of the Tripe House and how it would have operated, including a tripe crier who would have announced when the tripe was cooked and ready for consumption!

The address in one of the images in the link below seems to have originally been Well Street, a former name for this section of Digbeth. Could someone confirm that please ? Viv.

Extracted from https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...ho-painted-birmingham-landscapes.28936/page-6
 

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And another artist, T W Downing captured the house, Assinder’s Digbeth Tripe House, in this drawing, but there’s no date for the drawing. From the Birmingham Museuns Trust. Viv.

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found this info viv

Well Street
The top of Digbeth High Street near Park Street was known as Well Street in bygone times, taking its name from a public well that was situated there. It was also called Cock Street when there was an inn of that name on the spot.
 
Thanks Lyn. So the Tripe House could never have been on Well Street as it looks too far down the road to me. The caption on this image from the Artists who painted Birmingham thread must be incorrect.

(As an aside, the building next door #25, seems to be some sort of ‘repository’ by the name of ‘...r. & Gilder’. There seems to be paintings in the window). Viv.
 

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Oh I see. So if I’m understanding this correctly, the Tripe Shop could never have been on Well(s) Street because there wasn’t a tripe shop there at the time the street had that name.

But the site of the tripe shop was once on Well(s) Street. Someone please tell me if I’ve got this wrong. Thanks.

And so the building itself would have been on Well(s) because of it’s age, whether that was a dwelling, shop or whatever. Viv.
 
As I have pointed out in another thread, Digbeth, Deritend and Bordesley high St are often mixed up, due to the fact that there is one numberin g system for the three of them, going up one side tio the end and then coming back the other
 
A rear view of the Tripe House in the process of demolition. The drawing is probably by Paul Braddon. Viv.

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Thanks Pete. Looks like it would have fallen down if it hadn’t been demolished. Seems to be shored up on the one side. Viv.
 
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