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Lee Bridge Tavern, Dudley Rd, Any Pics, Info Please?

Radiorails said:
We seem to have two threads covering a similar topic:
this one and : https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...orial-details-wanted.48555/page-2#post-611039
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Kat7272 said:
What shall I do radiorails?
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kat you dont have to do anything as although the 2 threads concern the same person they are for different topics...

1 is for horaces memorial details and this one is for for the the lea bridge tavern although on the memorial thread you asked if that pub was the lea bridge and i replied yes you immediately started this thread for the pub which is the right thing to do so please dont worry...you are a new member and you are doing ok..

lyn
 
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My husband was born in Osborne Terrace which is directly opposite, I just wanted to thank you all for the photos and the maps.
rosie.
 
Good article, Keiron, and perhaps we should name that Suicide Corner. At least they had a choice of jumping under a train or drowning in the canal, but not a happy state of affairs to be sure.

Maurice
 
sospiri said:
Good article, Keiron, and perhaps we should name that Suicide Corner. At least they had a choice of jumping under a train or drowning in the canal, but not a happy state of affairs to be sure.

Maurice
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Thanks Maurice, the number of suicides all across Birmingham was really high. The inquests always seemed to end in a verdict of along the lines of "temporarily insane." It would seem that nobody was prepared to address the issues that drove people to suicide whether it was social conditions, poverty, poor wages, lack of healthcare etc.
 
I have nearly 4,000 people on my family tree from inner city Brum to the rural ag. labs, none with any real money and some in abject poverty, but I been fortunate in finding no suicides, and all bar one unnatural deaths were accidents. A child drowned in the canal at Aston Locks, another drowned in the River Evenlode near Charlbury, yet another fell onto an unguarded fire in Aston, an adult run over by a horse & cart in Oxfordshire, and one professional soldier killed in action. I consider myself very lucky not to have encountered any desperate enough to want to end their own lives.

Maurice
 
very interesting info on the lea bridge tavern kieron...also noticed that the acorn wheeler st was mentioned...another pub that interests me not just because it had two entrances..one in wheeler st and one in wilton st but because i have a photo taken by the newspaper of our dad sitting in the pub when they did an article about it also being used as a morgue..most unusal pub...sorry ive gone a tad off topic now
 
I always understood that the reason for "temporarily insane " or "while the balance of the mind was disturbed" was largely because in those days, when the various churches had an inordinate influence, a plain suicide so declared could not be buried in consecrated ground , and this could be important to the families
 
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