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Digbeth map request
- Thread starter Astoness
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Lyn
Here's your map , with 115 (Beehive Tavern),57 (Old Guy Pub) and 50 (fried fish shop in 1900). Apparently around 1900 the Old Guy was known for its freak shows, with dwarfs, siamese twins, fat ladies and bearded ladies (or, as McKenna claims- like Broad St today on a saturday night).
Here's your map , with 115 (Beehive Tavern),57 (Old Guy Pub) and 50 (fried fish shop in 1900). Apparently around 1900 the Old Guy was known for its freak shows, with dwarfs, siamese twins, fat ladies and bearded ladies (or, as McKenna claims- like Broad St today on a saturday night).
thanks for this map mike...the beehive goes a long way to working out some of my family history and how things came about going back to dads mom being taken in by strangers at 8 months old after her parents died within a day of each other.. when dads mom went on to marry in 1928 she gave her address as 50 digbeth and grandad gave his address as 57 digbeth which thanks to you i now find out was the old guy pub....i would imagine pics of these pubs will be hard to find but i will do a search for them....thanks again mike...brilliant...
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