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Brook Tavern, Lennox Street

Michael thanks for posting that request, in 1881 my g.g. uncle John Yates was listed as an Inn Keeper of the Brook Tavern, and g.g. grandmother Ann Yates age 79 was living with him and his family. I hope someone can post a photo.
 
By George he's got it !
 

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Postied, you are the miracle man, it is very rarely that you can't find a photo that is requested, thank you so much, can I ask where you found it, was it in a book of old pubs?
 
Have this one, which I assume is the one posted before.

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Heres another, it just shows how times have changed. Look at that young child out on the street alone.
 

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pete so did the douglas,s family [ tommy] i recall the bevan twins from the street and afew others
whom made could when they got older ; astonian;
 
always loved that pic of the brook tavern phil...did you notice the budgie in the cage in the window on the right..
 
Lyn

Yes I had noticed the budgie cage in the window, almost everybody who had a budgie in those times placed them in the window. Thankfully we know better now and we have learned that it's not the best place for them to be. Though I've noticed that not many people keep birds in the house now and they tend to keep them in the outhouses.
 
I imagine my g grandfather Thomas Sewell would have been a regular there. My gran was born at 3back35 Lennox St in 1885 & g granfer was well known for his liking of "pop". He deserted his wife & 10 children after my gran was born. Don´t know if her birth was the final straw, but I imagine my g gran was very relieved.
 
HI
I Am just wondering after looking at both pics what years diffents are there between yours phil and mikes picture
as mikes picture looked to posh for old lenox street as i recall it
yours phil definately lenox street as i recall the old back to back and the dirty streets of aston; Astonian;;;
 
hi alan both phils and mikes photos show the brook tavern so both are of lennox st...phils photo is dated 1961 and looking at the car in mikes photo i would say that was also taken sometime in the 60s..

lyn
 
I've just signed up to this site and was doing a short trip down memory lane, when I spotted the thread for the Brook Tavern. My father used to be landlord there. We loved there for about 4 years (I think about 1960 - 64) mostly good memories, particularly the local people and customers. Just a little point of interest, at one end of the road the street name read Lennox at the other it read Lenox.
 
I don't know Barry, but loving in a street is much better than living in it, Welcome to you.
 
Hi,

Still going through a large heap of old metal detector finds, and among them
an old copper token with the words George Wright Brook Tavern Lennox St.,
with a large ornate 3 in the centre. Presumably a 3d token. The token is in very poor
condition and the reverse has what appears to be a ring of little characters which look
like decorations but could possibly be letters, and heavily stamped in the centre of it
JH Regd.

There is no visible date, but I wonder if anyone has any record of George Wright being
the licensee, and when? I would guess that this dates from the early 1800's, and is about
the same diameter as a current 10p piece
 
Hi Mike,

That's interesting. many thanks. I'm puzzled why he should be issuing 3d tokens at
that time, or was there a shortage of small change, as pre 1873 pennies are much
rarer than the later ones. Or indeed why at all if he was only there for a short time.

I wonder if the overstamping JH Regd. on the back could have been anything to do
with Holders Brewery, who I believe were started in the area around 1870.

Kind regards
Dave
 
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