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Here is a close-up pic that I doubt if anybody has seen .. until now! I put a few notes to this - just click on the photo. Can a bus enthusiast confirm if that is a Bundy clock next to the horse trough? https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/duddeston-row-trough.htm

Setting the scene for a piece on Duddeston Row, I have started with the church demolished after WW2. Click on the photograph for more info ... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/duddeston-row-saint-bartholomews-church.htm

Here is one for bus spotters - No.37 Bus Stop in Albert Street for Hall Green .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/albert-street-perrins-warehouse.htm

Could I suggest a re-wording of the thread, or simply shortening to Albert Street? It is true that the properties in Duddeston Row were added to Albert Street in later years but Albert Street and Duddeston Row were separate thoroughfares for much of their existence. A shame that many fine...

I am thinking about doing a bit of Duddeston Row. It is, however, one of the streets for which I have very few images. Anyway to clear up a few things I have seen on the thread here is a map I have prepared for my page. It is based on a 1945 map though I should stress that by this point the only...

The gas-fitter Leonard James Thomas was at No.1 Pelham Road in Kelly's 1921 trade directory. The 1925 electoral roll shows Clara Richmond at No.20 Belcher's Lane. She later moved the short distance to 765 Alum Rock Road.

This view has a tram on Alum Rock Road but features the Pelham Arms in the background ... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-pelham-arms-1930.htm

A view of the corner across the road from the pub. I think that may be a K1 telephone box, similar to that at the Avoncroft Museum near Bromsgrove ... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-pelham.htm

Another view of the Pelham Arms in the 1920s. I think I paid £20 for this postcard but it is not sharp so I cannot read the smaller writing on the cart belonging to George's. I wonder what firm this was? Sparkling water perhaps...

This closer view of the Pelham Arms is thought to date from 1925 .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-pelham-arms-1925.htm

This view looks directly along Pelham Road with shops on the corner of Belcher's Lane. I have not looked up these businesses but the names above the shop fronts are L. J. Thomas and C. Richmond. https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-pelham-shops.htm

A photograph of the Pelham Arms taken around 1920, a few years after the pub opened ..... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-pelham-arms-1920.htm

Here is an interesting clipping from the front page of the Birmingham Daily Gazette published on Saturday 8th March 1924. I was interested in the factory that used to stand across the road from the Brookhill Tavern. It has taken a very l-o-o-n-n-n-g-g-g time for women to break through the glass...

The one element of the Covid procedures that I really liked was table service. When I visit Belgium this is standard procedure. I dislike queuing at a servery trying to attract the attention of a member of staff.

A complete list of 20th century licensees now online. I note, in particular, that up until 1960 there was only one! https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/alum-rock-road/brookhill-tavern.htm

M&B certainly splashed their cash when laying out the grounds of the Brookhill Tavern ..... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-brookhill-tavern-grounds.htm

This is how the Assembly Room of the Brookhill Tavern looked in 1929 .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-brookhill-tavern-assembly-room.htm

Here is a view of the Smoke Room not long after the pub opened .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-brookhill-tavern-smoke-room.htm

M&B surrendered four licences in order to obtain permission to build this place so the closure of the pub means the loss of five public-houses for Birmingham. This view from the Alum Rock Road side of the building is even better than the last pic ...

This image of the Brookhill Tavern was captured not long after the public-house opened in 1928 ......... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-brookhill-tavern-1929.htm