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Barr_Beacon
The Prodigal Brummie
The gaffer of The Pelican in the 80s was a chap called Ray. He later took over The Church Inn where he sold Batham's Best Bitter and did really good meals. Happy days, don't know what it's like now.
hi BB do you mean ray and wife pat if so i worked for them when they had the pelly think they used to have the fox in hurst st but that would have been in the late 70s i think...i used the church inn in the early 70s when wilf had it..many happy hours spent in there i can tell you
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Barr_Beacon
The Prodigal Brummie
Hi Lyn, yes it was Ray and Pat in the Church Inn. Sadly I didn't start drinking there until around 1991. Great pub and good beer. Got on well with Ray and I've got some photographs somewhere of his last day at The Pelican showing him locking up the pub for the last time.hi BB do you mean ray and wife pat if so i worked for them when they had the pelly think they used to have the fox in hurst st but that would have been in the late 70s i think...i used the church inn in the early 70s when wilf had it..many happy hours spent in there i can tell you
lyn
BB can i lead you to this thread...im sure you will know the lady in the video and could you post your pics of ray on that thread not this one please...
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...an-pub-gt-king-st-unett-st.46536/#post-570642
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...an-pub-gt-king-st-unett-st.46536/#post-570642
Barr_Beacon
The Prodigal Brummie
Thanks for that, Lyn.
Hello, I am a new member so please excuse me butting into what seems an old conversation. I have been fascinated the picture of the sides of pork in the alley next to the Vampire pub in Great Hampton Row as my great grandfather was Harry Knight the proprietor of the pork butchers. There are a lot of mentions of other photographs on this thread, including one from Kieron from the midlands pubs website, which is of knights butchers, but this is now missing on the thread, and the link to the midlandspubs site does not work as they appear to be revamping the site. Can anyone re-post the photo or any others of Knights if they have it please. Many thanks. Also they moved to 37-39 Great Hampton Row so any photos would also be good. My grandfather Henry Francis Knight had a grocer's shop I think in the Glebe Farm area in the 30s and 40s - does anyone know of this or have pictures please as well. Cheers.
www.midlandspubs.co.uk
Pub Historian
Oh yes, I must put this back online as soon as I can. You are right, there was some tinkering to be done!
Thank you
i'm sure the frontage of the building is still there,you can make out the brick window spaces and the entry,the pub lies back from the other buildings and is about a hundred yards up on the right from the LORD CLIFDEN towards Hockley flyover.
hello paul since those earlier posts research has been done on the vampire pub...there is a map on post 16 highlighting its position which was when gt hampton row went straight down..now it does a small turn to pick up gt hampton row...the vampire would have stood roughly where this car park is
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Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Can’t see that these Grade II Listed Gate Piers in what is now St George Gardens, Great Hampton Row, have been mentioned yet. I think the gates have been removed. The 1905 published map shows they led to the graveyard and The Church of St George.
Description from Historic England...
historicengland.org.uk
1905 published map...
Description from Historic England...
GATES AND GATE PIERS TO WEST, SOUTH AND EAST OF ST GEORGES GARDENS, Non Civil Parish - 1343447 | Historic England
List entry 1343447. Grade II Listed Building: Gates And Gate Piers To West, South And East Of St Georges Gardens. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.
historicengland.org.uk
1905 published map...
hi pedro yes those gates are no longer there.. ..there were 3 entrances to st georges...one on gt hampton row shown on your st view one on gt russell st and the other in tower st...the piers to all entrances are still there but only the gates to the entrance on the tower st side still remain...i took this photo in 2011...not been down there for a while must pay another visit soon..mom and dad married at st georges 1950 and my brother was baptised there in 1956...the architect of the church thomas rickman is buried in a tomb in the churchyard..
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here is the link for the st georges church thread...any further info info about the church can be posted there..thanks folks
birminghamhistory.co.uk
St George's Church Newtown
I painted this watercolour of the church for a member some years ago. Eric
birminghamhistory.co.uk
Radiorails
master brummie
What happened to those fine gates and the pillars? Should they have been moved and if so who moved them. The land owner (church?) or were they stolen?
Some fine trees there but they can easily be felled. Are there any plans to build here? That presumably would mean removal of those at rest.
Some fine trees there but they can easily be felled. Are there any plans to build here? That presumably would mean removal of those at rest.
H.Knight shop photographs.
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ChrisWright
Brummie babby
Thanks for sharing this map Lyn. My great aunt and uncle lived in Court 14 on Great Hampton Row from 1922 to 1938. I hadn't realised it was in Hockley which I have visited many times in recent years. I assume there is nothing left of the courts now?Lyn
Wood & potters are 72 (in red), so the pub must be 70-71.
thought i was imagining this sight today in gt hampton row...a very large king kong on a low loader 
...the building to the left is the newly refurbished gothic pub...it was pretty hectic around there so i decided not to ask any questions as to why it was parked there or where in gt hampton row it was going to be put or indeed where it had come from...
lyn
...the building to the left is the newly refurbished gothic pub...it was pretty hectic around there so i decided not to ask any questions as to why it was parked there or where in gt hampton row it was going to be put or indeed where it had come from...lyn
Mark Tooze
master brummie
In all the years I lived in Newtown I never saw a King Kong on a lorry......... perhaps he was getting ready to order a pint at the Little Brown Jug?
ha ha ...he may well have been mark if there were any pubs left around there..nice little mystery though...eventually we may find out why he was there..the men grappling with him seemed a little stressed so i thought it best not to shout over them
lyn
Mark Tooze
master brummie
I feel a caption competition coming on - "Where HAVE the Minerva and the Vampire and the LBJ gone???" or "I was going to climb up the side of Cannings but that's gone too" or "Not to worry - I'll soon walk back to me old home in Manzoni Gardens".....
mystery solved...king kong was being taken away..he was only there for the commonwealth games
www.birminghammail.co.uk
The day King Kong came back to Brum after 50 years away
Bigger and better than ever before, the now 23-foot tall King Kong will be at the end of Great Hampton Row near to the heart of the Jewellery Quarter throughout the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
www.birminghammail.co.uk
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