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Pubs Of The Past

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The Crown Inn.jpg1962.
The Crown Inn on the junction of Corporation Street and James Watt street was built in 1888 and became known as The Crown Restaurant.
 
Hi thanks shortie
i will be going that way very shortly an i will be going down that part of the bristol rd tonight within the next hour as we are off
see our daughter to celebrate
 
Salutation Inn Alma Street. This old pub shows here and there in other threads but does not seem to be in this thread, so here is a link so it can join the 250 pub pics already in this thread.
 
Thanks for this wonderful thread Stitch. I always look forward to reading it and looking at the photos.
 
Hello Moss, my brother in law used to own the Minerva Vaults but I never went in there, he sold it and went into the guest House business. I did not know it had become The Hampton.
 
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hi stich;
yes indeed it was the bakers ;and the latest was around the eightyies that was closed down i can recall
and it was not for the lack of trade eitherit was the organised crime and criminal actitivys by big time crooks
and it was politicaly a meeting place for a certain group which i will not confirm as to the well known ;people whom used it as a meeting place
for doing there transanctions it was ashame really a nice new pub when built andhalf decent people used it ;
have a nice day ;best wishes astonian ;;
 
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I do not have a date and I do not remember it so it may be an old one.
 
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The Coach & Horses Balsall Heath.
About twelve months ago someone applied to re-open this place as a smoking parlour for a drug that is allowed in this country but is illegal in the rest of the world. I never heard if it did re-open or not.
 
Isn't it strange how most people refer to it as The Sack of Potatoes,when it has always been SACKS of Potatoes.moss
 
Aston Lane and Trinity Road, The Holte. mid to late 1940s.jpgAbout 1945, I think.
The Holte on the corner of Aston Lane and Trinity Road.
 
The Reservoir..jpg
When I worked on the door at the Tower I passed this one twice a night for a few years and I never entered the place once.
 
Stitcher said:
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The Brewer and Baker at Camp Hill.
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The Brewer and the Baker" used to have a painting and a poem on it's facade depicting an arguement between the Baker who said "I am the Staff of Life" and the Brewer who retorted. "But I am Life Itself". My mother worked there in the late 50's early 60s and the licensee was one JAMES BOND! Slightly shaken, not stirred.
 
Probably something I ought to be ashamed to admit, but on the very first date with the girl I later married, I took her to see The Artesian Hall Stompers at The Birmingham Arms. This was in 1970. Not exactly a candle-lit dinner at a posh night-club... The gaffer was a hard Irishman, who always kept a stool-leg behind the bar in case there was an altercation or difference of opinion amongst his clientele. You walked in, and then had to climb a flight of steep stairs to where they had the jazz. No bar upstairs - there was a serving-hatch downstairs. Frankly, a real dump, but dear to my heart....41 years later the same girl and I still go to listen to live music wherever it's played, and we play it ourselves to anyone who'll listen.

Stitch, would you happen to know what year The Birmingham Arms closed?

Big Gee
 
Hello Big Gee, I am sorry but I have no idea when it closed and can I just say that in my opinion there is nothing wrong with taking your good lady to see "The Stompers". It shows the sort of taste I like.
 
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Hi Stitch,

At a guess, I think The Brum Arms closed in the early 1980's. Ah, The Stompers graced many a city-centre pub in Brum, and there's a thread on this Forum dedicated to them. These days we're into blues rather than trad jazz, and on June 20th we have our monthly Blues Jam organised by my wife at The Station Hotel in Sutton Coldfield. Pardon the plug....and sorry to go off-thread.

And me name's not Mike....but never mind!!!

G
 
firebird Edgbaston.jpgThe Firebird, Edgbaston.
This one was taken over by squatters about a year agobut they have gone now.
 
Is the Firebird the place that was edgebaston conservative club and then became a pub. Was looking for it on google maps and see that its not Balsall Heath road between Bristol & Pershore road now, they've named it after a medical centre -Bellevue
 
I do believe you have the right details there Mike, the way things have altered and the speed it all happened along with my age make some details a little misty nowadays. I am certain it was on the Benmore Estate and about where you pin-point.
 
Yes stitch it was betwen the two roads as mentioned and it was a rather big pub owing to the history of the building
but it was not rather a busy pub ; until the late sixtys when the area started to change if you get my drift
the mot opular one was the trees pub always jammed packed with all characers fron m the estate [ jack the lads ]
i knew quite afew of them from the estate when they travelled down to the blarney stone pub in the bull ring up the ramp
and started to sell there shopp lifted items ; i went into he firebird only once on a hot day and asked for a pint of bitter and beleive there coolers was not working and i got a red hot pint it was terrible a big sipp and i spatt it out and march back to the counter and told himabout the beer being hot ;
i never went there again ;one wicked place and then the earl grey came popularand took over by the cannon pub as well so there wa no trade in the fire bird ;
best thing they done was to knock it down ;i went to winson green last wek to check out the oldyorkshire grey ; only to find its a combined
bed ad breakfast and resturant ; or should i say a eating house it was more of a bed sit house in my opiniuon
i think it was the hollyfied pub just down from there ; thats gone ; it was burnt down ; it was so sad to see how the outer city of brum is decaying very rapid
looking tired and run down ;and the rubbish strewn every where i could never return to brum to live myself i have a brothr and sister and daughter whom live in brum i only visit them and only come to brum on bussiness thats winson green but saying that my old pub from years ago the ye olde lion acocks green
as gone down the pitts ; ah well thats the way it goes may be i am looking through an old pair of eyes ;
stitch ; i hope you and your good lady have a good day ; best wishes astonian ;;; alan ;;;
 
Thanks for all that Allen (Astonian), your view may come from a pair of tired eyes but it is very accurate in my opinion. Although the names escape me at my age, I do remember a lot of the characters from the late fifties early sixties because I used to work nights for Golden Line private Hire, the office was on Holloway Head. The Earl Grey stirs a few memories as well.
stitcher.
 
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