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thats great news kieron..that whole area is very close to my heart so any new photos would be a treat

cheers

lyn
 
Astoness said:
thats great news kieron..that whole area is very close to my heart so any new photos would be a treat

cheers

lyn
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I will be uploading more soon - I like to do a bit of research so that I can add a caption to the photographs. Oh, because I had to drop a link into Tower Street, I have another view of that butcher's shop. The family running the shop used to live around the corner in Tower Street and this property can be seen at : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/tower-street/
Cheers for now, Kieron
 
3 images of Great Hampton Row, that may or may not have been on this thread previously, if they were I cannot see them now.

Hockley Star & Garter Great Hampton Row - Brearley St 1960.JPG

Hockley Great Hampton Row 1939 .jpg

Hockley Great Hampton Row Loo Bloom.jpg
 
phil 1 and 3 i think i have posted ...most likely lost due to the hacking but pic 2 interests me as i am trying to place where abouts on gt hampton row it was taken..would help if i was an expert on trams and their routes i have an idea but will research it better later on

lyn
 
I have located some information about Post 184.
The date of the picture, is apparently, 13th. March, 1939. Car 594 is about to go into Livery Street from Great Hampton Row. The posters in the upper deck window details the abandonment of this route which will be 1st. April, 1939. Car 594 was built 1920/1 and lasted until sometime in 1952/3. To the right is a bus stop, all ready in place for the 69 bus service that will succeed the tram service.
Behind the horse and cart (coalmen?) is the Minerva pub -their Atkinson advert is on the wall. A little info here about the Minerva Vaults:
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...bs-in-great-hampton-street-help-please.44343/
Over to the left is a car (a Standard Flying Ten it is suggested) outside the wire factory of Parsonages. A quick search about Parsonages revealed nothing, so I will leave that to others to research. ;)
 
excellent work alan...i thought the pub was the minerva....many thanks for confirming

lyn
 
Great Hampton Row.jpg The photo in the middle of post 184 is the junction of Great Hampton Row and Great Hampton St. The factory on the right was W. Canning in 1962 when I used to get off at that bus stop to go to work. The buildings on the left are still there.
 
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Now we need Mike, with his mapping skills, to give some detail about those existing buildings and hopefully a mention of some of their occupants. ;)
 
A rainy day in Great Hampton Row 1970. I think the photograph is taken near The little Brown Jug.
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Ah, the Little Brown Jug! The only place you could get beer worse than there was just round the corner in the Pelican - Yuk!
 
little brown jug just out of shot on the left...photo taken 2 years before i moved from villa st to uxbridge st

lyn
 
Oisin said:
Ah, the Little Brown Jug! The only place you could get beer worse than there was just round the corner in the Pelican - Yuk!
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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:)

lyn
 
Astoness said:
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
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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.
 
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.
 
Annieb181 said:
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.
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Oh yes, I must put this back online as soon as I can. You are right, there was some tinkering to be done!
 
Hi stitcher was your in law called Danny Mooney....father of Steve... I also was the licensee when it changed from the Minerva to the Great Hampton...
 
mossg said:
Hi Lyn,you may be right.I have read that it was on the corner of Gt Hampton Row and Tower St,although in the picture it does not seem to be on a corner.If Mike reads this maybe he can help.Moss
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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

lyn

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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

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.
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1905 published map...

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