Pubs Of The Past

[DavidGrain]

Is there any one who remembers The Tower Ballroom Edgbaston Birmingham spent many happy hours there in 1950its and 60itsPauline Green

Pauline

Welcome to the Forum and hope you get much pleasure from it.
For the Tower Ballroom there is a thread with many memories here

tower ball room

I've just read in the evening mail that pub and club owner Liam O Connor has saved the tower ball room from demolision and it will be reopening around easter, he has bought a 25 year lease and is refurbishing it.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

I understand that it is now being demolished.

 

[Time Traveller 66]

Went once in the 1970s remember it seemed massive.

 

[Jill P]

Great Stone Inn Northfield with the animal pound next to it.

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I used to visit this lovely pub regularly in my late teens as my then boyfriend worked behind the bar, the landlord and his wife were the aunt and uncle of a schoolfriend and I stayed there for a week once while my parents were away. It used to be called the pub where you can buy beer by the yard, the pound and the stone the yard ward a long glass 'yard of ale' glass which used to hang over the bar. Happy memories. Thank you!

 

[Job Handley]

Anybody remember a pub around 1908 in Birmingham called the 'beehive'

 

[mikejee]

In 1908 there were three full pubs listed as the beehive, Soho road, Garbett St and Bloomsbury St, and probably more which, being beerhouses, would not be listed by name in directories

 

[Job Handley]

In 1908 there were three full pubs listed as the beehive, Soho road, Garbett St and Bloomsbury St, and probably more which, being beerhouses, would not be listed by name in directories

Soho Road I imagine.

 

[mikejee]

Now sadly demolished. I remember it well around 1970

 

[Job Handley]

Now sadly demolished. I remember it well around 1970

Yes, I found that out. I only ask because my maternal grandmother's adoptive family ran it for a bit. Surname PALMER

 

[mikejee]

There is a short thread on the beehive at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/the-beehive-soho-hill-hockley.16325/

 

[mikejee]

William Palmer is listed at the Beehive in the 1908,1910 and 1912 Directories, but not in the 1904 or 1913 directories. the year is the publication date, and cna be taken to probably refer to the the year before

 

[Job Handley]

That's him. I believe he was the father of the man who adopted my grandmother in 1936 who was a THOMAS WILSON PALMER. In 1939 Thomas was living in a place called Wednesbury and ran a pub called the 'Three Tuns'

 

[mikejee]

Thomas Wilson Palmer seems to be the son of a John Palmer from Wednesbury, who in the 1911 census was a Blacksmith

 

[Job Handley]

I stand corrected said the man in the orthopaedic shoes! Lol as each day passes I am not completely sure of anything I say but Thomas Wilson Palmer was the adoptive father of my maternal grandmother and he married a DORA MERCY COLLET who became Palmer. They are listed as living at 15 Piercy Street, Wednesbury in 1939. They adopted my grandmother in 1936 when she was 2 years old but don't have a clue who her biological parents were

 

[Dionysius//88]

Not to do with a pub but , The yard of ale rings a bell . My stag night in what was then my local someone produced the instrument to sort the men out from the boys . Filled with bitter up to the mouthpiece I stater of slowly then as the three foot or so of the stem emptied , easy I thought. Then still swallowing continuously , I spotted the danger heading up the stem toward my mouth , it was like a tsunami of amber nectar heading toward me . I’d already drank three foot or so but I had to retire there was no way I could drink the reservoir of bitter coming up the stem . I’ve never had another go , strangely enough .

 

[Job Handley]

Not to do with a pub but , The yard of ale rings a bell . My stag night in what was then my local someone produced the instrument to sort the men out from the boys . Filled with bitter up to the mouthpiece I stater of slowly then as the three foot or so of the stem emptied , easy I thought. Then still swallowing continuously , I spotted the danger heading up the stem toward my mouth , it was like a tsunami of amber nectar heading toward me . I’d already drank three foot or so but I had to retire there was no way I could drink the reservoir of bitter coming up the stem . I’ve never had another go , strangely enough .

Arguably a lot to do with a pub my friend lol a yard of ale you don't see much nowadays do you tbh. Slightly before my time but I can recall the vessels they were in. Very similar to a test tube or something out of a science lab which possibly where it derives but have no idea

 

[NoddKD]

Not to do with a pub but , The yard of ale rings a bell . My stag night in what was then my local someone produced the instrument to sort the men out from the boys . Filled with bitter up to the mouthpiece I stater of slowly then as the three foot or so of the stem emptied , easy I thought. Then still swallowing continuously , I spotted the danger heading up the stem toward my mouth , it was like a tsunami of amber nectar heading toward me . I’d already drank three foot or so but I had to retire there was no way I could drink the reservoir of bitter coming up the stem . I’ve never had another go , strangely enough .

The knack to drinking a yard of ale is to keep the tube swirling around as you drink. The tsunami does not generate.

 

[Job Handley]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_of_ale%23:~:text%3DThe%2520glass%2520most%2520likely%2520originated,drinking%2520feats%2520and%2520special%2520toasts.&ved=2ahUKEwifoZ7lgbD3AhVJQMAKHc8-DEUQFnoECA8QBQ&usg=AOvVaw2UP2AJsS94ThaUQT1APmGn

(IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED LOL)

 

[Richard Dye]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_of_ale%23:~:text%3DThe%2520glass%2520most%2520likely%2520originated,drinking%2520feats%2520and%2520special%2520toasts.&ved=2ahUKEwifoZ7lgbD3AhVJQMAKHc8-DEUQFnoECA8QBQ&usg=AOvVaw2UP2AJsS94ThaUQT1APmGn

(IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED LOL)

Maybe I am wrong but I thought the pub game was if you drank the yard you had free beer for the rest of the night! I’m always interested in such scientific facts

 

[Job Handley]

Maybe I am wrong but I thought the pub game was if you drank the yard you had free beer for the rest of the night! I’m always interested in such scientific facts

I really don't know but sounds fair to me! lol I'm from the Black Country and I'm sure there is/was a pub round here called the yard of ale? It's got a few old pubs itself but I can't deny that Birmingham is far more historic and don't want to start discussing Tipton on a Birmingham forum lol

 

[Jollyjack]

I used to visit this lovely pub regularly in my late teens as my then boyfriend worked behind the bar, the landlord and his wife were the aunt and uncle of a schoolfriend and I stayed there for a week once while my parents were away. It used to be called the pub where you can buy beer by the yard, the pound and the stone the yard ward a long glass 'yard of ale' glass which used to hang over the bar. Happy memories. Thank you!

Hi, I thought this was the Stonehouse in Weoley Castle. My wife says that there was a passage by the Weoley Castle pub that ran up to it at Stonehouse Lane.

 

[Oldun]

The New Inn,Bromsgrove Street.

 

[Oldun]

The Swan Inn,High Street,Erdington.

 

[paul stacey]

Jolly Jack , that is quite correct, the ally ran down to the Actual castle of Weoley Castle, The Stone House was the pub I had my first pint at 14, 1961, time and I used for a while, tje road that ran past the ally and Castle was Alwold Road, I believe, opposite e the Castle was "Winter Hill, Park where we would sledge down in the snow, Great memories, from a time long gone!!!!

 

[Oldun]

Various.

 

[Oldun]

The Royal Albert, corner of Park Lane and Upper Thomas Street,Aston.

 

[Vivienne14]

Good to see the Swan, Erdington details. What a large site at that time. I think the shop(s) included in the sale on the corner of Wilton Street might at one time have been Shufflbothams. Viv.

 

[Oldun]

The Mountfort,Kingshurst.

 

[Oldun]

Outside the boundary but I thought this card that my father picked up in the 30’s or 40’s may be of interest.I expect many people remember when in the 60’s this became a Berni.

 

[A Sparks]

Dandelion wine - that would keep the queue for the toilets busy!

 

[Oldun]

Good to see the Swan, Erdington details. What a large site at that time. I think the shop(s) included in the sale on the corner of Wilton Street might at one time have been Shufflbothams. Viv.

Viv-There is a good photo on the thread-Where was this ? Shufflebothams Grocery.Oldun.