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Princess Royal Pub, 292 Victoria Rd, Aston

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Does anyone remember the Princess Royal Pub, 292 Victoria Rd Aston, My Grandparents Fred and Lil Cross ran this pub between 1958-1964 approx. We cannot find any info or photo's on the pub and would be grateful for any info
Thanks
 
Jerry an Maud Cook ran it after them. The Cooks then moved to the Shareholders and then opened the Greenwood at Chelmsley.
The Princess was a favourite watering hole from the nick
 
Hi Mike
Just checked with Mom and yes it was pub favoured by the Nick, until there was trouble and then they were no where to be seen :)
 
My Grandmother used to serve behind the bar in 50's, her name was Lily Joinson and she lived at 141 Victoria Road, next door to the Labour club.
 
hi tatterhead
we used to live directly opersite across the other side of victoria rd corner of upper thomas street and victoria rd ; and hortons the builder was on the other side during the years you mentioned especialy at week ends there was always a fight between man and wife or two woman fighting ;
andquite true it was a rare sight to see victoria rd polices station they would come when its all over ;
it was always the friday night and saturday night ;a very busy pub it was until they built the swan along the victoria rd
it was so bad there t6hey had good west indian bands playing at week ends ; then we moved down to 47 victoria rd my young brother got mrried and moved into those new houses on barton bank ; incidently the house we lived in across the rd was the penny dripping cake shop where every body came out of swimming ; best wishes astonian;;
 
Hi All,

Two of our members on this thread make mention of the fact that the police were missing whenever trouble occurred at this pub and Victoria Road Police Station is specifically mentioned. As I had the honour of serving there as a constable throughout most of the 1950's I would like to put the record straight.

Firstly we did not sit in the station waiting for calls. We were on patrol with comparatively few officers. Most of the time, Particularly at night, the only person in the station was the officer covering the front office. We had no radios and our only connection with the station was to wait at a pubic phone kiosk for ten minutes every 2 hours.

There were 2 area cars covering the division to deal with urgent 999 calls etc. D Division comprised Aston, Erdington, Kingstanding, Great Barr, Perry Barr. Nechells and part of Lozells. Troube in pubs was not as often has been suggested and generally speaking publicans could cope with it themselves. Pubs were closely monitored and if it was seen that a publican could not cope then their license was not renewed.

Any trouble was usually after the pubs had closed and we usually doubled up on Friday and Saturday nights to deal with this. When you think about it if a pub usually had trouble they would soon run out of customers.

Old Boy
 
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