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Great Hampton Row

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thats it mike i remember now....thanks for jogging my memory..as we thought the vampire was not on a corner..

thanks mike you are a star.

lyn
 
im just trying to think of the gaffers name when i used the minerva...think it was john...i heard he had passed away some years back now..
 
moss if you look at mikes map..the vampire was at no 33..just up from there you can see albion works marked out....ive posted a pic of it on post 2...

lyn
 
Lyn i do believe that if you look at your picture of Albion works, directly under WORKS you can see where the half circle was on the original Vampire signage .Moss
 
Thanks for your help Mike.It's hard to believe i walked past the building hundreds of times on my way to and from work.Moss
 
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Lyn i do believe that if you look at your picture of Albion works, directly under WORKS you can see where the half circle was on the original Vampire signage .Moss
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sorry moss but i cant see where the half circle was on the albion works pic....help lol...
 
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I can still see it Lyn.In fact on your picture of ALBION WORKS,after the word WORKS it has 33,which ties in with Mike's post stating The Vampire was No 33.moss
 
i must go to spec savers then moss lol....i can see the no 33 but still cant spot the half circle.....bit confused really as the albion works pic was taken in the 50s and your caption says the vampire was demolished in the 1920s...what a name for a pub though...and to have a vampire yard is spooky lol

lyn
 
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moss just a bit more info...ive just looked at my 1897 kellys and as mike has said before the vampire is not listed under its name but at no 33 i have a reuban brown beer retailer and next door at no 34 we have a thomas knight pork butcher which explains all the meat hanging in the entry in my pic of the vampire...

lyn
 
I think I can spot it under the 'Works' at the far right of the photo. The Large door is where the original doorway and large window were.


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I have tweaked the contrast to emphasise the area better. Looks as if there had been quite a lot of brickwork redone around that part.
 
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morning bernie...right i can now see what moss is thinking maybe the half circle saying the vampire but i dont think it is as because as i said earlier the pub was demolished in the 1920s and my pic of the albion works was taken in the 50s...i think the vampire building would have been just out of shot on my pic...

lyn
 
I see it exactly was Bernie does.Lyn as far as the Vampire being demolished,the article that stated that also wrongly said it was on the corner of Tower street.moss
 
hi moss maybe mike could help here..if you are right does this mean that the vampire pub became part of the albion works then..if you look at my pic of the pub there is an entry next to it on the left and i cant see that entry on the albion works pic...i always thought that the vampire was about 3 buildings to the right of the albion works...

lyn
 
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Right Lyn
Below are a series of small maps showing around the Vampire site from 1890 to 1955. Have amrked Vampire main frontage building in red, though some of the small buildings behind are likely to have been associated with it in 1890. The first two there is no doubt, and I think that most will agree that my estimate of the position of the Vampire in the alter maps is reasonable. The Vampire seem sto be at the far end of the later Albion building

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map_c_1937_gt_hamp_row_vampire.jpg


map_c_1955_gt_hamp_row_vampire.jpg
 
thanks mike so moss was right then about the vampire pub building still being there in the 50s...as on my pic of the albion works he spotted the original vampire sign..think i made the mistake of going by your map on post 16 as the vampire looked quite a way from the albion works...i still cant make out the word vampire but there again me eyes are not as good as they used to be...lol

lyn
 
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well spotted moss...just to finish up it looks like the albion works also turfed out thomas knight the pork butcher who was at no 34...in 1921 neither he or the vampire is listed but knights had moved to nos 38/39 gt hampton row...

glad thats sorted...

lyn
 
moss i really do need to go to spec savers lol..spotted the half circle in the end but i had to put me glasses on and even then it was difficult...i still cant get over the name vampire yard...would love to find a pic of it..

lyn
 
mike i think just for the heck of it i would...so long as someone else was in front of me lol..must be one of the most unusual names for a place to live....

lyn
 
I know you're mainly discussing pubs on this thread (how VERY unusual!) but this was the only one I could find to put the photos on and it is Gt Hampton Row.
So....this is St. Georges Park, built on the site of St. Georges Church and containing a few fairly eroded gravestones and the large memorial.
Photos taken yesterday (21/7/2012)
 

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charlie its tragic the way that what remains of the many headstones that were once there are just propped up against the out walls of the church..many of them broken and smashed...your second pic shows where thomas rickman is buried..died 1841 and it was he who designed amongst other buildings st georges church...

lyn
 
Hi folks, Ive just discovered in the 1849 Whites Directory and Gazetteer of Birmingham that an ancestor of mine had a Butcher's shop at 129 Gt Hampton Row...I've had a look on Old-Maps but I can't work out where it would have been especially as the enhanced zoom isnt available now and my eyesight isnt that good !! Would anyone be able to pinpoint it for me .... or point me in the direction of a map of the era please :)
 
Lindyloo
Of course one cannot be sure whether the building in 1849 was the same as in 1889, but here is map showing no 129 on c 1889 map in red

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