saddlers arms aldridge road

[Astoness]

dated 1959..some may remember this pub but it was gone before my memory of the area

lyn

 

[A Sparks]

Some information about the photograph...

Date:April 1959

Description:Saddlers Arms, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, between Franchise Street (to the left) and Birchfield Road School. From a private photographic survey of buildings demolished for the Birchfield Road underpass scheme, April 1959.

 

[Astoness]

thanks sparks...looking at the design of the pub makes me wonder when it was built..maybe someone could check the directories to find out when it was first mentioned..shame its no longer there as i would have been in their long before now

lyn

 

[A Sparks]

thanks sparks...looking at the design of the pub makes me wonder when it was built..maybe someone could check the directories to find out when it was first mentioned..shame its no longer there as i would have been in their long before now

lyn

The reason I found the description was as I wondered whereabouts it was on the Aldridge Road but, after reading the location and as a pupil at Birchfield Road school, I do remember the pub now!

 

[SamJ]

Some information about the photograph...

Date:April 1959

Description:Saddlers Arms, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, between Franchise Street (to the left) and Birchfield Road School. From a private photographic survey of buildings demolished for the Birchfield Road underpass scheme, April 1959.

I thought this row of shops was on the site of what would subsequently be Birmingham Poly.