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I have looked in vain for a dedicated thread to Great Hampton Street but cannot see one. I see bits and bobs dotted around the forum but this is a street that deserves its own thread. Well, in my humble opinion it does. Anyway, if this old turnpike road floats your boat I have published some...

Being as one can obtain a 250 year lease for an apartment in The Gothic for only £409,000 plus annual service fee, I am considering moving to a location where it is still a bit edgy, oh sorry, I am supposed to say trendy.

I cycled over to the former Gothic Inn yesterday and have 'improved' my page at https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/great-hampton-street/gothic-inn.htm with some more pics.

Nothing new there .... a lot of blokes watching a few men do all the work!

I have uploaded a bit of history of this brewery at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/breweries/birmingham/davenports-brewery.htm

I keep trying to find your dad Lyn?

If Birmingham had moved all the buildings they have knocked down to a bit of wasteland then they could have actually filmed "Peaky Blinders" in Brum rather than the BCLM. Seriously though, think what a museum the city would have had - and a boost to the local economy in the age of heritage tourism.

I applied for such a role. Being as I search the old census records I thought I could make a contribution to future researchers. They never got back to me.

Well, I have laboured over this one for two days. Voila - every publican since the day it opened to the 21st century : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/warwick-road/greet-inn.htm

When I was in the military and crossed the Iron Curtain, my passport and documents were taken [almost certainly photocopied for the Stasi] which took a while. Then the military guard would salute me, to which I had to return a salute as a sort of mutual respect. It was all very John le...

I have another pic with "God save the King" on it so it must be the Coronation??

Now, before anybody says : "That's not the Greet Inn," this photograph was a matter of metres away in Manor Farm Road. I never know if these show the Coronation or the end of war party! Great pic though. Or Greet pic!

Only a gap of 12 years since the last post but I have a pic I have just prepared from my site. I have guessed at the date of 1900 but it could have been taken when the church was enlarged four years earlier?

Having lost my job because of Covid, I found some of the questions bizarre. Like what were you doing? What was your role? Have you been looking for work? I thought for a minute I was filling in a form for the Department of Work and Pensions!

Hi Lyn, I am putting the S&G in Great Hampton Row. Both trade directories and licensing books list it in GHR.

I have put my tuppenny's worth on this and some other buildings at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/brearley-street/

We most certainly are Lyn. I plan all meals, undertake all shopping, unpacking, cook every meals, do the washing-up, hang out stuff on the line, clean the bathroom, all DIY and gardening. I know my place! I remind my partner that I am a trophy husband ;)

Different view at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/enlargements/hatchett-street-havergal-house.htm

The Havergal House in these photos dates from the autumn of 1934, the foundation stone being laid in September of that year.