Great Hampton Row

[Astoness]

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..

lyn

 

[Astoness]

here is the link for the st georges church thread...any further info info about the church can be posted there..thanks folks

St George's Church Newtown

I painted this watercolour of the church for a member some years ago. Eric

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

[Radiorails]

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.

 

[Oldun]

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.

H.Knight shop photographs.

 

[Oldun]

Maps

 

[ChrisWright]

Lyn
Wood & potters are 72 (in red), so the pub must be 70-71.

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?

 

[Astoness]

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

 

[Mark Tooze]

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?

 

[Astoness]

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]

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".....

 

[Astoness]

mystery solved...king kong was being taken away..he was only there for the commonwealth games

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

 

[mikejee]

Wonder where he is going

 

[Astoness]

Wonder where he is going

i wondered that mike

 

[Pedrocut]

Great Hampton Row junction.

“This is the junction on the Soho Road tram services, with Constitution Hill to the left of the large advertising hoarding and Livery Street to the right. The tram tracks to the left in front of the Rover 14 Sports Saloon are those in to Great Hampton Row. This line was built by the Birmingham & Aston Company but, because CBT would not agree to steam trams running over the cable tracks from the town centre and along Constitution Hill, CBT leased the line and only operated from inside Great Hampton Row: although there was a junction. it was onlv used for access.” (H. B. Priestley)
Birmingham before the electric tram by Harvey, D. R. (David R.), author. Publication date 2013.

 

[Vivienne14]

According to this article Great Hampton Row was once known as Hangman's Lane ! https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/hemms-of-handsworth.57869/

 

[A Sparks]

According to this article Great Hampton Row was once known as Hangman's Lane ! https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/hemms-of-handsworth.57869/

I wonder if there was a reason for that name!

 

[Vivienne14]

There was a public execution in 1806 and quite nearby, but not actually on Great Hampton Row. Don't know if this was connected. See image below.

Great Hampton Row was also once known as Hay Barns Lane according to Showells Dictionary

 

[mark caine]

Here's a nice picture of Gt Hampton Row sent to me by a cousin in America we think its around 1900.

Looking at this picture I would thinks it's a good guess it's dated around 1950 to 1960 the clue here is the image of a black child in the bottom right of the picture because around the time of the early 1900 the vast majority of people still never even seen a black person in in real life.

 

[Jules72]

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This was Great Hampton St. Remember Gaffneys very well and The Pelican Pub.

 

[Vivienne14]

Four threads about Great Hampton Row have been merged into this one. There may be earlier unseen posts.

 

[Astoness]

great hampton row running accross..looking down unett st...all the old houses gone and new ones built...the flat in the distance was demolished some years ago now...from memory i think the st georges vaults once stood on the left corner

 

[brummy-lad]

1855 map and business directories of the area around Vampire (Vampyre) Yard collated while researching William Bodill & Co, may be of use to someone in the future.

 

[brummy-lad]

An aerial view from 1950 and map from 1950s.

 

[brummy-lad]

Nice to see that this building has survived (Grade II Listed), Great Hampton Works.

 

[brummy-lad]

I don't think this comparison requires a comment.