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Queens Head Steelhouse Lane

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Hi
Has anyone got (or know where I could find) an old photo of the Queens Head pub in Steelhouse Lane?
I know that it still exists today, and in fact can find loads of modern photos of the pub, but have had no joy so far in finding an old one.
One of my ancestors worked there in 1901 and I would like to see what it looked like during this period.

thanks Karen
 
Hi Karen

Is this what you are looking for? I'm afraid its not a very good photo.

Phil
 

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Are any of the regulars from The Queens Head, Steelhouse Lane here? Remember the lock ins and the juke box. What is it like now? I know many of the staff from around the law courts and the general hospital were regulars there. My dad was one of the regulars in the 60's 70's and 80's till the night it closed down. Anyone remember the story of the woman buried in the wall?
 
It's been the Jekyll & Hyde for at least a decade. I've never been inside, but have passed it hundreds of times over the years!

It was purple in 2010. But is now painted blue.

 
Used the Queens before going to the Tower Ballroom most Saturday nights late sixties, seem to remember how small it was as we never left the bar.
 
that was the photo i was looking for so thanks viv....very sinister looking passageway to the left of the pub

lyn
 
Yep...rebuilt a few times! This is an old map of the Queen's Head next door to the old Ebenezer Chapel.....and some info from Web.....The map is from Mikejee....

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The ill-conceived Inner Ring Road of the 1960s tore through the old Gun Quarter. To make sense, the Quarter is treated as a whole entity. Steelhouse Lane, the southern boundary of the Quarter, took its name from Kettle's Steelhouses, erected here in the late seventeenth century.
Where once there were a dozen or more pubs, the Queen's Head is the only survivor in the street. It is the third house to bear this name. The first was popularly known as the Stamp, from the pub's sign above the doorway, depicting Queen Victoria's portrait from the Penny Black stamp. The house was built in the early eighteenth century, but did not become a pub until c.1840. The pub was demolished in 1884 as part of the Improvement Scheme for the cutting of Corporation Street. The second of the three public houses of the same name was a narrowfronted four-storey, red brick and terracotta establishment, built to the design of well-known pub architects James & Lister Lea, post January 1889. In the mid-1960s the second Queen's Head was closed down and demolished as part of the Inner Ring Road scheme. The third, and present, Queen's Head, an M&B house, was built in the mid-1960s,following the completion of the Inner Ring Road. It is a favourite lunchtime haunt of those working in the Inns of Court opposite, and journalists and staff of the Post & Mail

....this pic is taken 1946....

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Morvenna said:
Are any of the regulars from The Queens Head, Steelhouse Lane here? Remember the lock ins and the juke box. What is it like now? I know many of the staff from around the law courts and the general hospital were regulars there. My dad was one of the regulars in the 60's 70's and 80's till the night it closed down. Anyone remember the story of the woman buried in the wall?
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What's the story about the woman buried in the wall?
 
I can’t go back as far as some on this thread but I can take you back nearly 40 years (38 to be exact).

I was the DJ at The Queens when Glynis was the gaffer, she was a lovely person does anybody know her whereabouts today?

I worked there from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s and some great times were had
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For a good while I worked Thursday to Sunday (even did Tuesdays as well for a while), Thursday was Nurses Night, Sunday was Rock Night and Fridays & Saturdays were general party nights.

This picture is from my early years at the Queens as it includes my brother (in the black Thin Lizzy T-Shirt). He helped me for a little while but said it was ruining his social life so he quit
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I’ve also included my T-Shirt, one of many Glynis had made to promote the pub

I set up in the front bay window area and as you can see I played using vinyl and Technics 1210s
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It definitely looks to have improved when Glynis and Mum took it over. I worked across the road at Fountain Court in the early/mid-1970s, and this was our local. It didn't have much to offer in the way of food at that time from what I can remember of it. No music either. So we only went in there to celebrate leaving do's, marriages, etc. Glynis, did well to move it along. Especially as it was a bit 'out of the way' too.
 
Thanks for that Vivienne, that’s about the time I started to DJ there too.

I was the DJ at The Crown round the corner at the time on Fridays and Saturdays and she asked me to work at The Queens on Thursdays and Sundays. I eventually ended up working for her Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays (thats another story as to why that happened!)

They were lovely people and I’d love to find out what happened to them.
 
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