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Yew Tree Hotel Yardley

Vivienne14

Vivienne14

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Maybe someone could offer a date for this great view please. And a location if possible please Thanks.

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Vivienne14 said:
Below a quote from Bill Dargue's site which mentions the House when describing the Yew Tree. The site of the House is where the Hob Moor School was built :

......... commercial centre of Yardley lies at the Yew Tree on the Outer Ring Road around the junction of Church Road and Stoney Lane. In the 19th century Yardley House stood here on a very large plot on Hob Moor Road and was owned by the Flavell family. The site is that of the present Hob Moor School.

In 1919 the family sold the immediate grounds and the house itself to the M&B brewery who built a handsome public house, The Yew Tree, on the corner between Hob Moor Road and Stoney Lane, a busy local route from the earliest times.

The Yew Tree pub was demolished in 2000.

Viv
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Cross reference?
 
Thanks Jim.

Bill Dargue also mentioned in that reference:

"The pub was named after a country mansion which stood almost opposite between Yew Tree Lane and Church Road. There was presumably a yew tree here.

The Yew Tree pub was demolished in 2000 to make way for a new purpose-built shopping centre with a pub as part of it. Other shops and local services line the streets around the crossroads here".
 
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