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There are a couple of references to this tavern in the Theatre Royal thread but I thought the pub deserved its own place. This photograph shows the frontage in the inter-war period.
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Shakespeare Tavern - Lower Temple Street
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Pub Historian
Which one do you think looks like the bard? Three inn signs in my collection for this tavern. The image on the left hung outside in the 1980s, the centre image dates from 1991 not long after replacing the previous signboard, and the third is a more recent image ....
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Pub Historian
Post-war licensees now posted at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/temple-street/shakespeare-tavern.htm
Williamstreeter
master brummie
Pub Historian Back in the 80's after receiving a bonus from work . The good lady and I booked a days holiday , in those days I used to wear a Tam o Shanter hat the type Jackie Stewart wore Mine was a brown and white check pattern , anyway due to the hat I was refused entry from the Guilded cage or whatever it was called at the time . So we sallied forth to the Shakespeare only to be refused entry there as well , so next stop was the Trocadero were we had no problem getting in the surroundings were that pleasant we returned on the following Saturday night . I did find the refusal to the Shakespeare funny as in days gone by certain Irish friends and mates off the building used to go in there after work some had about six ton of concrete on their trousers
Radiorails
master brummie
There can be quite curious regulations - some written, other invented or imagined. Many years ago we found that dogs were usually unwelcome in most restaurants. The curious thing was that in one restaurant , adjacent to a cattle market in a Devon town, dogs were excluded but farmers with dung caked all over their boots were welcomed! 
BrummieGeoff
Sparkhill Lad
Here's a photo of an early incarnation of the pub .... then called the Shakspeare Inn. The photo is tagged with a date of c1879. Mark Yates is shown in the 1861 census as a "Retail Brewer" in Temple Street.
BrummieGeoff
Sparkhill Lad
A George Warren Blackham painting of the Shakespear Tavern. It bears the name Mark Yates, so I assume it's the one in Lower Temple Street .... even though it doesn't look identical to the earlier photo, but I guess that's artistic licence.
