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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

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