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Bodega Pub Corporation Street C1903

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carlinwood

proper brummie kid
Hi,
Does anyone have any information on whereabouts (or even better a picture) of the Bedida (spelling uncertain) pub in Corporation Street?

I am currently editing my great Grans 'life story. Her entry for 1903 has the following section:

"When in Corporation Street she went in to a place I thought was a coffee house but it was the Bedida pub. Bought two ports (they were only 2d then)............[she left in a panic over an incident that was occurring there] ............I can’t tell to this day how I got down those stairs. I never stopped running until I got by the Red Lion on the corner."

So far I have drawn a complete blank. Any help would be appreciated.

Best,
Carl
 
The Bodega was at no 62 New st, and below is a picture that was on another thread a few days ago. you can just see the sign to the left.

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Hi mike
If my memory serves me correctly they sold German beer and it was packed every night
And they had long tables always full and the lights was dim it was a street level bar and a lower level bar
At week ends you could not get in always jammed pack but the beauty of it there was never ever trouble no door men in those days
Our favorite haunt was the costomongers when it first openend and which they open end first before the video which later about two years later. They
Changed the name which I cannot recall at the moment. Best wishes Alan,, Astonian,,,,,,,,
 
Hi mike
Just having a think it was later in years changed named to bogarts from boddie
Best wishes Alan,,,,
 
Are you certain it was Corporation St I have checked the 1904 directory and I cannot find and pubs listed in it there are three temperance hotels the nearest Red Lion pub was further down the road in Lichfield Rd


carlinwood said:
Hi,
Does anyone have any information on whereabouts (or even better a picture) of the Bedida (spelling uncertain) pub in Corporation Street?

I am currently editing my great Grans 'life story. Her entry for 1903 has the following section:

"When in Corporation Street she went in to a place I thought was a coffee house but it was the Bedida pub. Bought two ports (they were only 2d then)............[she left in a panic over an incident that was occurring there] ............I can’t tell to this day how I got down those stairs. I never stopped running until I got by the Red Lion on the corner."

So far I have drawn a complete blank. Any help would be appreciated.

Best,
Carl
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Thanks everyone for your replies and Mikejee for the picture. That's marvellous.

I wasn't certain that it was Corporation Street at all. This was based on the reminiscence of my great gran some 66 years after the event when she was just 14 years old, so its more than likely that she got a few details wrong. Looking again at the circumstances around this event, I'm now certain that this happened in 1902, not 1903.

Thanks again everyone. As I work through her text I'm sure I will have a few more questions as many areas require a bit of detective work to piece together the meaning.

Best regards,
Carl
 
Hi mike
I have only just clocked your picture and yes its where I thought it was I have just said corporation street, and I always get mixed up
With corporation street and new street I said on my first thread about it and said it was years later that became bogarts
And the frontage of the building is the very same only a little further down than I said
And as you know if you walked backwards up the street Christchurch come out between col more row and the street
I am pretty sure image came across that picture myself a couple of years ago in one of my books which I have not out in years
I could not get it out as I have that many if I was like you with access on CD,s I could wizz through it
I ventured the old city at a very early age and I have a photographic memory and I have walked and ventured through most of the nic nacs of brum
I was stated I know Birmingham city like the back of my hand to many people and said you would never loose me in Birmingham
But I cannot state that now, I work from memory and books but my old Dutchess is starting not to like me rooting through the books
As I leave them untidy but as I said I do not keep old record on comp, but the old books and from memory
Mike thanks again for the pictures you put on for us you do a great job so does the Admin team best wishes For 2015
Alan,,, Astonian,,,,,
 
Hi mike
Today this morning after a good nights sleep and studying the picture and casting my mind back and going by the clock above the pictureI am sure
And seeing that brown building and the distance from the clock walking backwards in fact the first part of the commencement of the brown building walking down and next to the bedico pub building was an very old original works agentcy it was Antique inside and very old fashioned
It was called Blue Arrow employment agency as I recall for proffesional personal only
And that's where this building you are about not further up AS I first thought and never was bogggies as I said
It was right next to it they was taken over by a big commercial clothing company it was around that time when things started to get changed
And front shops be Altered I can recall the old thwarted hall being demoed ASD well I can recall most of the city changing
New street station ad been changed at least times in time even the back end of the old station
Meaning Elizebeth drive with the sheltered area where the taxi rank was first original postion
We would walk up through there and get to Bromsgrove street to the pink elephant club
Have a good day mike and everybody else of course best wishes Alan Astonian,,,,,,
 
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