Down Memory Lane
master brummie
Hi,
There's some information (no pictures unfortunately) in this post...
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/woodman-inn-deritend.19589/
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Hi,
There's some information (no pictures unfortunately) in this post...
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/woodman-inn-deritend.19589/
SolC
proper brummie kid
Hi Down Memory Lane
Thank you so much for this. I have come across this before and I've emailed the owner of this website as for some reason, he hasn't listed the Freemans as the last landlords. (I have been told that when William Freeman (of Moseley) died in 1908, the pub company (Rushton's according to the above website) wouldn't allow his wife Lillie to take it on by herself, which is a shame as Lillie actually worked as barmaid when the Heath's had it according to the 1901 Census). I wondered if this contributed somewhat to the pubs closure in 1909?
Hopefully someone somewhere has a photo lying around somewhere...
Many thanks again
Williamstreeter
master brummie
Hi Down Memory Lane
Thank you so much for this. I have come across this before and I've emailed the owner of this website as for some reason, he hasn't listed the Freemans as the last landlords. (I have been told that when William Freeman (of Moseley) died in 1908, the pub company (Rushton's according to the above website) wouldn't allow his wife Lillie to take it on by herself, which is a shame as Lillie actually worked as barmaid when the Heath's had it according to the 1901 Census). I wondered if this contributed somewhat to the pubs closure in 1909?
Hopefully someone somewhere has a photo lying around somewhere...
Many thanks again
SolC Welcome I can well understand the reasoning about Lillie not being able to take the pub over, years ago women could not take on HP . I know that only too well from experience , my mother tried to enter into a HP agreement with Civic Radio on Easy Row for my first record player in the 60's she had a terrible job, namely because my parents were separated . Also a very close friend of some years ago ran a pub on Holloway Head due to marital strife he had to leave that pub , he applied for another public house not far away , was refused because of no female relative, he had to get his mother involved with a new licence and got the pub . It became a very successful enterprise , so I presume they were partners in a roundabout way
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
SolC
According to Kelly's trade directory the last licensee for the Beer Retailer (I don't think it was ever a fully licenced pub) was Lilly Freeman in 1909 (listed in 1910). It was at 91 Bradford Street and if they haven't changed the numbering that would have put it between Alcester Street and Lombard Street. After closing as a beer house it became a Fruiterer (whatever that was) run by a Mr William Lodge. In fact if I have the right location I think in the mid 60's it became a hairdressers shop owner by a mate of mine.
According to Kelly's trade directory the last licensee for the Beer Retailer (I don't think it was ever a fully licenced pub) was Lilly Freeman in 1909 (listed in 1910). It was at 91 Bradford Street and if they haven't changed the numbering that would have put it between Alcester Street and Lombard Street. After closing as a beer house it became a Fruiterer (whatever that was) run by a Mr William Lodge. In fact if I have the right location I think in the mid 60's it became a hairdressers shop owner by a mate of mine.
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
Well we started using it at 17, so if it is going to run as a retirement home...dual purpose, could finish up there (Now you'll tell me the pub part wont be operating)
Bob
SolC
proper brummie kid
Makes one appreciate how lucky we are that it's so easy to do these things these days - especially as a woman!
SolC
proper brummie kid
Hi Phil
Thank you so much for this info! (I have so much love for this page.) How interesting that it listed Lilly as the licensee - I wonder why it closed? When you say it wasn't a fully licensed pub, what does this mean please? Would it have just been an off-licence? Or were they only allowed to sell beer and not wine/spirits?
What IS a fruiterer?
Also, you friend doesn't have photos of the building does he/she?Thanks, again, so much for this!
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Not a fully licenced pub meant that it was originally licenced only to sell beer and cider on the premises. I understand that on occasion they could ask for an additional licence for other items, but most did not. From my experience of Kellys, fruiterer and greengrocer were often used somewhat indiscriminately, fruiterer sounding more posh. Often the same shop could be described as either at different times.
With regard to the end of the pub, the cuttings below show that the licence was not renewed. This was the result of the deliberate thinning out of pubs that was occurring in the late 1900s and up to the end of WW1, referred to in one cutting as the 1904 Act. Interestingly it does list compensation which was to be paid (£1401) to someone for loss of the licence. Who this was would depend on who actually owned the pub. It would seem from the same cutting that the closure would have been in the last week in december 1909.
With regard to the end of the pub, the cuttings below show that the licence was not renewed. This was the result of the deliberate thinning out of pubs that was occurring in the late 1900s and up to the end of WW1, referred to in one cutting as the 1904 Act. Interestingly it does list compensation which was to be paid (£1401) to someone for loss of the licence. Who this was would depend on who actually owned the pub. It would seem from the same cutting that the closure would have been in the last week in december 1909.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Mike
Can you work out where exactly the pub was because I have an idea I might have a photo of the place if indeed it was the premises that my mate turned unto a mens hairdressers in the mid 60's. The photo is before he converted it and looks to be in the 1950's.
If I am right that's the shop on the left of the bus as we look at it.
![Camp Hill Bradford Street from City [1].JPG](https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/data/attachments/51/51163-c5ccd99cfaf0242383c071693b05e960.jpg?hash=xczZnPrwJC "Camp Hill Bradford Street from City [1].JPG")
Can you work out where exactly the pub was because I have an idea I might have a photo of the place if indeed it was the premises that my mate turned unto a mens hairdressers in the mid 60's. The photo is before he converted it and looks to be in the 1950's.
If I am right that's the shop on the left of the bus as we look at it.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Mike that looks right to me, well at least I was in the general area. Whenever I try to locate anywhere I seem to fall foul of renumbering. I looked at it and I thought that the methodist chapel was number 91, so I gave up thinking possibly there had been a renumbering at sometime. Do they not number churches?
Radiorails
master brummie
I believe the date proposed by Phil, in post# 1423 is more, or less, spot on. The car and van seem to be of the era. The buses are all post war except CVP 160, but the newest bus (second in line) could be a 1952/3 model. The bus CVP 160 (1060) is a 1937 vehicle but was renovated in 1948. It was one of 40 pre-WW2 buses taken out of storage and put back into service in the late 1950's and withdrawn in 1960. It is on the Moseley Road route which replaced trams in October 1949.
Radiorails
master brummie
Looking at the 1950 map, post #1424, it drew my attention to the many manufacturing premises that there once were to be found in Birmingham. I have noticed this before, in the many maps that grace the pages of BHF, but enlisted little relevance - other than the places marked which answered a posters enquiry.
However, I decided to list them, as shown on the map.
Works for filing systems, basket ware,metal and metal finishing, plating, printing, joinery, hairgrips; there was also a brass foundry (which seems to have covered a large area), a food products and two warehouses. A ruin is mentioned and The Spotted Dog Pub. A search, here, did not reveal the pub.
This seems to be the place, somewhere not demolished.
http://www.spotteddog.co.uk/
However, I decided to list them, as shown on the map.
Works for filing systems, basket ware,metal and metal finishing, plating, printing, joinery, hairgrips; there was also a brass foundry (which seems to have covered a large area), a food products and two warehouses. A ruin is mentioned and The Spotted Dog Pub. A search, here, did not reveal the pub.
This seems to be the place, somewhere not demolished.
http://www.spotteddog.co.uk/
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SolC
proper brummie kid
Wow! Thanks (again) so much for this Mike. This has definitely helped with my research!
SolC
proper brummie kid
Hi Mike
I've only just seen this! This is awesome! Would you be able to point out 22 Bradford Street on a map like this at all?
Thanks
Solanche
debbieironmonger
master brummie
Good Evening, I am looking for any photos of the Green Man pub in Deritend. I believe it was near St Johns Church. My family worked from a yard behind there and I can't seem to find any photo's of that side of the road, more or less opposite Gibb Street. Any information and/or photos of that particular area gratefully appreciated folks!
TIA
Deb
TIA
Deb
debbieironmonger
master brummie
Thanks mikejee, I see what you mean about its location. Do you or anyone reading this happen to have any photographs of that side of the street, there never seems to be any when I have looked. I have seen one that shows some shops just by the recess off the street (to the left of the Green Man) but never any further up, here's hoping.
Deb
Deb
SolC
proper brummie kid
Thank you Mikejee!!
ell i was being a tad sarcastic about the time it will take to rebuild and open lol.....very good chance it will be a buffet restaurant but begs the question if it could not survive as a food serving pub what makes them think a similar place will...beats me but we shall see
lyn
lyn
Andy from Panks
proper brummie kid
The Roebuck what a stunning buildingView attachment 61831
No. one is The Unicorn on the corner of Holloway Head and Speaking Stile Walk. 1964.
No. two is The Roebuck on the corner of St. Martin's St. and William St. 1965.
No. three is The Shakesperian on the corner of Great Colmore St. and Cregoe St. 1965.
Williamstreeter
master brummie
I remember both pub 1 and pub 2 from when I lived in William St , if for any reason the chippies in both William St and Bishopsgate St were closed we used the one in St Martins St . the first two chippies the proprietors were brothers albeit trading separately . So we had to walk past The Roebuck
Grassy Bank
master brummie
Great views, The Granville was opposite Bush House which lay back from Broad St and was the Housing Dept. offices.
This is the corner of Granville Street and Broad Street and the pub is called 'The Granville'. It was built in 1923, more recently the pub was re-named as 'The Westward Ho!' but in later years it reverted back to The Granville.View attachment 62573
This is another shot of The Granville in 1964.
I Am Nico
master brummie
Is the Bagot named after an aistoctactic family?thanks ell...judging by the speed they build todays buildings the new bar and grill should be open by next week..
lyn