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Queens Arms Bell Barn Riad

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sanroma

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I have discovered that my maternal grandparents kept a public house at 212-213 Bell Barn Road . Would anyone know the name of that pub please ? Also was it bombed to destruction in the early years of the war . The story I was told as a child was that it was near an ammunition factory ?? Thanks
 
212-213 Bell Barn Road was The Queen's Arms. It disappeared between 1940 & 1943, and it can be seen in red on the map below c 1950 marked as a ruin. The landlord in 1940 is listed in Kellys as Alex Buckley. The nearest dated earlier map I can access is 1919, and this does not shoe anything very close that looks like an ammunition factory, but one could have come later, and anyway there were many in Birmingham, and the targeting then was not very accurate, and so they could well have been aiming at an ammunition factiry

map_c_1950_showing_site_of_212-213_Bell_barn_Road.jpg
 
Many thanks for the info. Alex was my grandfather and my mother lived at that pub before her marriage in 1945 . They lost everything in the air raid on their home . The family moved to Brighton in 1946 .
 
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