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Anyone that knows anything about the Hope & Anchor Inn in Navigation Street knows the proprietor Mr Robert Edmunds spent most of his life in the Inn from the age of three, taking over the Inn at the age of 16 till well into his 70’s. The Midland Railway Company purchased it in 1886. Mr Edmunds died a few months after it was demolished.
The Hope & Anchor was well know for its political debates and music nights and some of Birmingham’s well know politicians such as Chamberlain, Bright and Muntz frequently held meetings in the large rooms at the back of the Inn. But what the Hope & Anchor is best remembered for is the sick- club and charities it ran and it was Mr Edmunds who started the working men’s collections for the hospitals and started the ‘Artisans’ Penny Fund on behalf of the Queens Hospital plus the patriotic fund for the soldiers fighting in the Crimean War
The Hope & Anchor was well know for its political debates and music nights and some of Birmingham’s well know politicians such as Chamberlain, Bright and Muntz frequently held meetings in the large rooms at the back of the Inn. But what the Hope & Anchor is best remembered for is the sick- club and charities it ran and it was Mr Edmunds who started the working men’s collections for the hospitals and started the ‘Artisans’ Penny Fund on behalf of the Queens Hospital plus the patriotic fund for the soldiers fighting in the Crimean War
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