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Tyburn House Entertainment

Well spotted Alf LOL :D
Used to go in towards the end of the 60s early 70s, i think it was disco night on a Saturday


bren
 
Looks like another Pub that will be closing soon. Had most of it's front windows smashed the other day:(
 
Bren,
I was going to say something similar to Alf. I thought your message had come from the OTHER SIDE! (a computer in your coffin!!). Ethans picture is how I remembered it and if Frothie is right about it closing, what a shame!
 
re tyburn
i did an audition there a few years ago and used the resident drummer's fabulouse drum kit
shardeen
 
I remember the pub had a great room for dancing and partying. Such a shame it's all bashed about. Arrrrgh.
 
Frothy, when you say its windows were smashed do you mean it's been shut already? I'll be passing it tomorrow so will have a look.
David
 
davidfowler said:
Frothy, when you say its windows were smashed do you mean it's been shut already? I'll be passing it tomorrow so will have a look.
David
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It's open David, just looks like someone has smashed the windows.
No pubs open on the Vale now the Skylark has shut, I bet it's getting the RIF RAF now.:redface:
I must add, this is not a slur on the good people of Castle Vale.
 
Hopefully the forecast snow won't stop my weekly visit to grumpy old uncle.


I'll try and take a couple of pics.
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I have only ever been in the Tyburn House twice, once about 30 years ago, and the other earlier this year - to go to the loo - it looks such an inviting pub from the outside but such a disappointment inside.
 
Frothblower said:
It's open David, just looks like someone has smashed the windows.
No pubs open on the Vale now the Skylark has shut, I bet it's getting the RIF RAF now.:redface:
I must add, this is not a slur on the good people of Castle Vale.
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I used to live on Castle Vale in the bad old days, before the estate was rebuilt. The Skylark really wasn't a pub you really wanted to go in if you know what I mean (or any of the others on the estate). I used to walk across the estate for a drink at The Tyburn House instead, sad to hear that the pub isn't what it was.
 
Went there a couple of years ago to a leaving party for one of the Carlsberg bosses. Not been back but will give it a try as it is on the way to one of our sons. Jean.
 
I used to go there every Saturday night with out fail for the free and easy The boss was Gordon Southall who left to open a Hotel in Blackpool Had the same seats because we were the first in Tony Rivers was the singer compare what happened to all the people we knew any one else with similar memorys. My name Joe my wife was Josie and our friends were Jill and Decca
 
My friend used to go out with Gill who played in Quill in the 1970's!
 
Re: Born in the 40's? We were so LUCKY!

Mal Ford said:
Hi Alberta,

Yes, I think really we were very lucky in a lot of respects for being born in the 40's and witnessing, joining in etc the 50's and 60's. I suppose there is so much to remember (especially in Brum) as far as music,socialising,TV,clothing, are concerned, and certainly all of these were very important to us 60's rock'n'roll merchants, if you know what I mean!

The late 50's I remember been threatened with expulsion at my school (Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School, Bournville) for playing 'See Ya Later Aligator' on the brand new school gand piano. Playing for my first group gig with The Deltas at The Taboo in Stirchley along with The Rocking Berries and Jimmy Powell. I remember making sure, after going to the Saturday afternoon Rock'n'Roll dances at both The West End and The Casino (Corporation Street?) that I got home to watch The 6 5 Special on BBC and O'Boy on ATV - both great shows for the time especially the O'Boy show. In fact, I won (along with, unbeknown to me 100 or so others) a competion in The Sunday Mercury (answering questions on Elvis) the chance to go and see the O'Boy show in London. Brenda Lee,Cliff Richard were some of the guest stars on that occasion. For a black and white only TV show I was amazed at the luminous colours worn by Lord Rockinhams Eleven and all the stars in the studio.

It goes on and on, the joy of playing in a group in the 60's was probably (unbeknown to us at the time) the real time to witness the start of so many successful Brummie individual careers in the music scene. I also remember going to see the movie 'The Girl Can't Help It' never thinking that one day I would be either backing or supporting people like Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry etc, who all starred in the movie.

However, the groups signed by EMI in 1963 - Keith Powell and The Valets (I was in that lot!), Mike Sheriden and The Nightriders, Pat Wayne and The Beechcombers, Danny Duke and The Royals, The Cheetars joined by other well known (at the time) local outfits i.e The Rocking Berries,Carl Wayne and The Vikings,The Modernairs (brilliant band at the time!),El Riot and The Rebels and ofcourse Denny Laine and The Diplomats (blond dyed hair - remember?) all of these groups and more started the 60's music scene in Birmingham and I am so proud to have been part of it.

Great to be born in the 40's? Too right!!!

Cheers...........Mal Ford
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Wow Mal what a great post I missed it first time round. A bit early for me but my husband has mentioned all the groups you have been in over the years and the dance venues.
 
Re: Cyril

Hi Paul,I can remember Cyril singing at the free n easy at the hobmoor pub yardley in1972 then seeing on Sunday lunchtime at the Tyburn in the 90s he hadn't changed then chilby hat and smart suit happy memories.Brian
 
Used the Tyburn a lot in the mid 60,s Always good groups on and it was Ansells. We used to hang around in the car park with our motor bikes. Tear off to Tamworth then back to the Tyburn. The tyburn was a better pub than the Baggot. no atmosphere there.
 
jude said:
I have some very happy memories of the Tyburn House, dancing there in the early 60's
I can't remember the Licensees name but she was the 1st lady licensee in Brum.......... my friend and I had some terrible run ins with her as we were only 15/16 at the time but all we wanted to do was dance, we only drank lemonade. One night she called the police to us, as it was it was a friend of my Dad. He went mad at me cause he knew my folks would go balastic if they knew where I was.
We stood there crying and said all we wanted to do was dance.. there was no where else for us to go. In the end an appointment was made for us to visit Erdington police station with our respective parents for a meeting with the Superintendant, the licensee and us.
The outcome was that we were allowed into the dance on certain nights and we had to sign a charter promising not to drink and to behave ourselves. If at any time we broke our aggreement he (the super) would make sure we never set foot in any pub in his district ever again ha ha. needless to say we behaved ourselves.
Saw some fantastic groups El Riot & the Rebels( the Moody Blues). Carl Wayne & The Vikings (The Move) Danny King & The Royals, Raymond Frogget, Mike Sherridan and the Night Riders to name but a few!
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Landlady mrs walker
 
alan bartlett said:
Used the Tyburn a lot in the mid 60,s Always good groups on and it was Ansells. We used to hang around in the car park with our motor bikes. Tear off to Tamworth then back to the Tyburn. The tyburn was a better pub than the Baggot. no atmosphere there.
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Yes i would meet with my biker friends on car park and ride to tamworth to Monica cafe and ride back down theTamworth straights back to Tyburn then ride to Alexs on smallbrook ringway to meet other bikers
A few years later would meet at
DOUBLE ZERO club . Happy days
 
Hello Michael, what year did you hang out at the Tyburn? Do you remember Chiefy Chambers, big tall lad, rode a BSA. He hated Triumphs, called them "Rubber irons". His favourite trick was to stamp on your gear change if you sat there revving the guts out of your engine. Some nights he would turn up in his Humber Super Snipe. I was also a regular at Alex,s and the Double Zero, great days of the "cafe racer"
 
alan bartlett said:
Hello Michael, what year did you hang out at the Tyburn? Do you remember Chiefy Chambers, big tall lad, rode a BSA. He hated Triumphs, called them "Rubber irons". His favourite trick was to stamp on your gear change if you sat there revving the guts out of your engine. Some nights he would turn up in his Humber Super Snipe. I was also a regular at Alex,s and the Double Zero, great days of the "cafe racer"
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Kieth chambers know well brought the snipe of him 1969
He had bsa rocket gold star
Other bikers tony priddle .Speedy ronny jayes. Spunge .ect 1964 we had batams then 350 norton
1965 rocket gold star 1966 brought Bsa a65 spitfire mk 2 Brand new . Used macklin cafe in erdington sometime . Sammy
Ernnie a few names come to mind . I worked a bus dept in town before starting my own company in 1973 .now retired live near tamworth in farmhouse
Just sold my bikes . Mike ( cooky )
 
Thanks to both of you, I thought it looked too built up to be our Tyburn that is why I asked. Could it be deleted please.
 
Used to go to the Tyburn in the early 70s, especially Friday nights when there was a reggae disco on.
 
I went to the Tyburn a few times in 1966 / 67 to see a band called The Way of Life - their drummer was John Bonham :)
The manager complained he was too loud once and turned the electricity off on them!
 
A Sparks said:
I went to the Tyburn a few times in 1966 / 67 to see a band called The Way of Life - their drummer was John Bonham :)
The manager complained he was too loud once and turned the electricity off on them!
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I have never quite understood the mania for extreme loudness of so called bands and disco type music. Many people who go to parties and similar events sometimes meet people they haven't seen for a while, or wish to make new friendships and just want to talk. It is usually quite impossible to hold any form of conversation and relies on occasional comments which have to be shouted.
 
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