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    Bogarts

    I started going here in 1974. I don't know when this photograph was taken.
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    Pubs Of The Past

    This photograph may be elsewhere in the forum but just in case it's not... The Queens Head pub Aberdeen St, Winson Green, Birmingham 1955.
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    the acorn..wheeler street

    This ring any bells, Lyn?
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    Memories : Essence Of The 50s And 60s

    They had all these in Finchley Park in Kingstanding!
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    Centenary Square development 2017-18

    The Alpha Tower in 1979.
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    Smallbrook Queensway

    There were some interesting shops on that stretch and a nice little pub called the Horse Trader.
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    Ansells Brewery

    The big Birmingham companies always put something on for the children of their employees. I remember the Christmas party at GKN Hardy Spicer when my dad worked there.
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    Ansells Brewery

    A Christmas party for employees' children at Ansells Brewery in 1958.
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    Winson Green Prison Gates

    They look quite imposing, Lyn!
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    Victoria Square

    VE Day Celebrations outside the Council House May 1945
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    Smallbrook Queensway

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    Passages, Alleyways Gulletts and Snickets of Old Brum

    Villiers Street Winson Green (1970s?)
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    Winson Green Prison Gates

    Villiers Street Winson Green (1970s?)
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    Horse Fair

    1950s / early 1960s?
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    Brookfields Tavern, Hingeston St, Winson Green

    Apologies, no date.
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    Old horns pub

    The Old Horns 1937
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    Lucas Great King Street memories

    The WMPTE Lucas's Great King's St buses; in 1980, I used to use the one from Kingstanding when I worked at Newman Tonks in Bridge Street West. Always felt like I might be doing something wrong but it saved me the walk from Newtown Row.
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    Great Hampton Row

    Thanks for that, Lyn.
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    Great Hampton Row

    Hi Lyn, yes it was Ray and Pat in the Church Inn. Sadly I didn't start drinking there until around 1991. Great pub and good beer. Got on well with Ray and I've got some photographs somewhere of his last day at The Pelican showing him locking up the pub for the last time.
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    Great Hampton Row

    The gaffer of The Pelican in the 80s was a chap called Ray. He later took over The Church Inn where he sold Batham's Best Bitter and did really good meals. Happy days, don't know what it's like now.
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