Not heard of this one on Bull Street. These notices are from the 1850s. Perhaps it changed its name ?
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Source: British Newspaper Archive
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Source: British Newspaper Archive
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Bee Hive Inn Bull Street
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In the 1855 PO directory the Rainbow and Beehive is listed as at 44 Bull St, between the Quaker meeting house and Steelhouse Lane junction. Quaker Meeting House entrance is by no 41. In the 1858 Dix directory it is listed as the Beehive inn. In the 1861 Corporationn directory it is the Beehive Inn, J.Bryce & Co. In the 1962 corporation directory it is just J.Bryce & Co, wine & spirit merchants, and similarly in the 1867 PO directory
Beehive on Bull Street was originally known as the Ship and Rainbow. Its first known licensee was Matthias Webb, Landlord from 1791. The name was changed to the Ship and Beehive sometime after 1835. The name was again changed to Beehive c.1850.
Atkinson's Brewery took over the pub and demolished the old building and replaced it with a James & Lister Lea design. The pub was closed in the 1950s.
(Source: Joseph McKenna's 'Central Birmingham Pubs', (2006).)
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This was the Beehive in the 1950s, by then an Atkinson’s pub.
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