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I'll do another post as I have another pic to add to this thread - if that's OK.

Pic is 1961 Viv so the girl would just have received a Covid jab!

I thought I would ask the question as the forum often comes up trumps .... "Does anybody know who the little girl is in this photograph?"

I am looking into this pub today so if anybody has any stories or memories that would be great.

Has anybody got any memories or anecdotes of the post-war publicans of this house. There were only three licensees so they must have made an impression with some of the regular patrons. Their names : Arthur Long, John Heath and Arthur Gill.

Let's compound the entry by another pic :

I was only teasing! A lot of these corner pubs often had two addresses. However, the Compasses was generally listed in Brearley Street as in this 1947 TD entry :

MURDER to the rear of the buildings on the left. See : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/great-russell-street/index.html#Court-36

PEDANT ALERT : This is a Brearley Street pub!

Lyn, you will not be interested in reading all of the page as it is a bit like "Angela's Ashes," but I have linked to the bit where I describe my father collecting the weekly rents at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/staffordshire/cradley-heath/reddal-hill-road.htm#Map Cheers Kieron

Slight amendment .. a later map c.1950s shows Court 35 a bit lower but the 1889 map which is more accurate shows it was in fact the court to the rear of Lot 1. I have edited it accordingly.

I have this postcard and, being as I am doing a little on Great Russell Street, I looked into this image. The bill posters on the walls of the buildings show the property details for an auction of the row, the sale being held on 27th March 1914. The sale did not mean that the occupiers were...

It is the St. Matthias' Tavern Lyn

This is later Mike. I have a postcard of these properties. The sale was March 1914 and the shop on the left is No.208 occupied here by the fruiterer Ernest Smith.

There was a pub called The Beehive in Larches Street - if memory serves the building later served as the post office.

A few details, including opening date and reason for pub's name now at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/heath-street/rutland-arms.htm

I was thinking that if you invested as much energy as you have done on researching the lamp you could perhaps find the cup that was lost! ;)

As you can see, Cradley had its own Aston Villa before your query ;)

Well, what do you know! Hope you are keeping well. Anyway, who is your British Oak ancestor?

What was his name? I have a history of the Duke Inn on my site at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/warwickshire/sutton-coldfield/duke-inn.htm Unlike the rest of my site, this was the work of somebody else - Yvonne Moore. I did a lot of the British Oak but, again, you have not furnished us with a...