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Click on the photograph for a full list of post-war licensees.

Here is a photograph of The Rock in all its pomp .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-rock-1935.htm

Shops and cafe next to The Capitol ..... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-capitol-cafe.htm

BTW all people are named - you just click on the photo.

I think it is the same building behind the modern shop fronts.

I think this is my best photo of a shop on Alum Rock Road - check out the number of bananas - amazing! https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-450-barnetts-greengrocery-store.htm

Some shops near to Tarry Road can be seen on this photograph of the Grand Picture House. A petrol station now stands on the corner of Tarry Road..... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-grand-cinema.htm

I have this pic but I think those are Laburnum Villas in the background. They are on the opposite side of Alum Rock Road.

This shop was actually No.2 College Road but I am including it here as part of the corner premises did face Alum Rock Road ..... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-college-road.htm

No.13 Alum Rock Road was at the Saltley end of the thoroughfare, not far from the Tilt Hammer. For many years it was the premises of the draper Frank Funnell .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-13-frank-funnell.htm

I think I may have featured a snippet of this photograph in the Covid Pub Quiz I put on the forum. Anyway, here is the full image : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-tilt-hammer-1931.htm

Here is a photograph of the shop next to the Methodist Church. Taken around 1928, it featured Gladys Rowcliffe on the doorstep. The shop continued in much the same vein after she departed. https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/alum-rock-road-134-tobacconist.htm

In the interests of balance and equality ... here's one of a woman on a ladder! One of these days I am going to post a photograph and Lyn is going to shout at her monitor "that's my dad!!" BTW, this woman is in Burbury Street. Hey! Lyn, your mum didn't have a window round too did she ;)...

Another bloke on ladders! This, as far as I know, is previously unpublished : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/high-street-board-inn-1929.htm

Here is an inter-war pic of the Queen's Hotel which stood in Church Lane, not Church Road .... https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/church-lane-queens-hotel-1930.htm

Inter-war view of the Star Inn : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/aston-road-north-star-inn-1933.htm

Who can resist a map? I know Mike can't. Here is part of the Bell Barn Estate with a few pubs plotted : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/1875-plan-bell-barn-estate.htm

Well I must say that I am disappointed that there has been hardly a response to all the information and previously-unpubished photographs of Ashted Row I have posted. Must be one of the thoroughfares that didn't touch the lives of forum members. Oh well, at least I attempted to tell the story of...

I have cobbled together some history on this brewery at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/ashted-row/dog-and-partridge.htm#Kelsey