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Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Lyn
The Cottage of Content was at 276 Newtown Row and in 1903 it was listed as a beer retailer owned or run by a John Mc Connal. 276 was located on New Town Row between Cowper Street and Milton Street.
(added later) Sorry once again Mike we must have been posting at the same time.
The Cottage of Content was at 276 Newtown Row and in 1903 it was listed as a beer retailer owned or run by a John Mc Connal. 276 was located on New Town Row between Cowper Street and Milton Street.
(added later) Sorry once again Mike we must have been posting at the same time.
mysterymermaid
Mermaid from Brum!
Some of my moms family lived in Kyrwicks Lane, remember she used to send Christmas cards, think their surname may have been Kettle but not sure
i am the person walking the dog
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Any ideas which pub this was? It's on the corner of Ashted Row and Windsor Street South. Viv
Sounds possible Jimbo, thanks. Very surprised this has been left standing. It's on a corner all on its own. Looks like its now flats. Viv.
Thanks Mike. Looks like demolition had started around the pub in your photo. Glad the building's still there, and with many of its features intact. Viv.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
This pub would have been a few hundred yards further down Ashted Row from the Dog & Partridge it was on the corner of Henry Street. It says it was taken in 1960 which it very well might be the pub wasn't demolished until about 1963, though it just looks a little earlier than that to me. This was among quite a few images of pubs passed on to me by Lyn (Astoness).
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Hi mike
Many thanks for that information and for your valuable time and the reason I asked is because I have an old cousin
Whom as had connections with that pub way back around that period so it helped with my research
In one form an another may I had he died many many years ago once again mike many thanks
I hope you have a nice week end best wishes Alan ,,,, Astonian,,,,,,,,
Many thanks for that information and for your valuable time and the reason I asked is because I have an old cousin
Whom as had connections with that pub way back around that period so it helped with my research
In one form an another may I had he died many many years ago once again mike many thanks
I hope you have a nice week end best wishes Alan ,,,, Astonian,,,,,,,,
Ruby childs
New Member
Had my 18th party here, my parents weren't aware of its 80s reputation.This is how the Beeches looks today all lower windows fitted with Sitex panels and the whole area fenced off and plenty of concrete blocks to deter vehicles entering the site.
On the bright side, word is that it is going to receive a massive refurbishment during the next three months and will open late March as a Hungry Horse venue, whether the Beeches name will remain is not clear.
The only mention in the newspaper archive of a Coppersmiths Arms is to one in Rea St. However directories show a James Griffiths, beer retailer (beerhouse) and brazier at 33 Emily St in the editions dated 1867-1878. Between the 1878 and 1879 Editions there was a renumbering of the atreet, and in 1879 he is still there at the beerhouse. But in 1880 and 1882 Charles and then Sarah Hickman have taken over the beerhouse, though James is still a brazier at no 65½ (presumably the buildings at the back). In 1883-84 James (assuming it is him and not his son) is an ironmonger at 65½ and also at 166 Moseley Road, though by 1888 he is only at 65½ Emily St and back to being a coppersmith and continues there till 1912. Of interest is that in the 1862 Corporation directory there is listed Griffiths & Pemberton, coppersmiths, in Emily St, though number is not given, and it looks like James was a coppersmith who set up his beerhouse on the same site as his business, his original business giving rise to the name of the beerhouse
The 1901 census , which shows James Attwood was already there by 1901 alos shows the pub is then called the Cross Keys.
After James left the beerhouse continued with the following landlords (Note these dates are publication dates of directories and probably refer to the year before):
1880 Charles Hickman
1882 Sarah Hickman
1883 Thomas Price
1884-1892 Samuel Burgess
1895-1897 Thomas Dowding
1899-1900 Mrs Emily Dowding
1903-1925 James Attwood
Not sure how long it lasted, but by 1932 it was a cardboard box manufacturers.
Map c 1889 below shows position of pub
The 1901 census , which shows James Attwood was already there by 1901 alos shows the pub is then called the Cross Keys.
After James left the beerhouse continued with the following landlords (Note these dates are publication dates of directories and probably refer to the year before):
1880 Charles Hickman
1882 Sarah Hickman
1883 Thomas Price
1884-1892 Samuel Burgess
1895-1897 Thomas Dowding
1899-1900 Mrs Emily Dowding
1903-1925 James Attwood
Not sure how long it lasted, but by 1932 it was a cardboard box manufacturers.
Map c 1889 below shows position of pub
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Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
I don't know if anybody has mentioned this already, but I had cause to drive through Hay Mills the other day and I noticed that The Plough & Harrow on the Coventry Rd had gone, It had been closed for a good few years, but because it had been standing empty for so long I thought that maybe they were going to find a use for it, but apparently not.
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paul stacey
master brummie
They tend to wait till the house prices are at their highest ,Phil.paul
Paul and phil
The plough as been boaded up for at least twenty years or so more
If not longer i would say so
I lived down there years ago just along the road from it about eight to ten doors from it
And prior to that i lived just around the corner on the other side of coventry road speedwell road
So i know its been donkeys years ,, Alan,,, Astonian,,,,
The plough as been boaded up for at least twenty years or so more
If not longer i would say so
I lived down there years ago just along the road from it about eight to ten doors from it
And prior to that i lived just around the corner on the other side of coventry road speedwell road
So i know its been donkeys years ,, Alan,,, Astonian,,,,