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This drawing shows The Coffee House, Winson Green in 1888, According to a meeting of the company this was one of 19 coffee houses they had in 1889. They were set up as part of the Temperance Movement of the time. The interesting feature of the Winson Green house is that it was a place where ex prisoners had a place to meet their friends on leaving the prison.
Other houses mentioned in the article are Dartmouth Street and at the Cobden Hotel in New Street. Viv.
The opening of 5 Coffee House Co premises, all opened in the 1870s at:
Snow Hill
Easy Row
Bell Street
Oxford St Digbeth
Lower Temple Street/Stephenson Street
The most informative description is that of the Oxford Street Digbeth house.
Source: all extracts from the Birmingham Newspaper Archive
