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The Kingstanding

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I remember the old Kingstanding pub back from the late 50's. My mom's family drank there (Cox) and my dad's family(Conlon) and is where my mom and dad met. As a small child I would stand in the passage between the bar and toilet
and wait for a relative to go to the toilet and I would usually get 3p or if I was lucky a tanner, (sixpence). I remember all the bowling green's at the back of the pub. We lived in Hornsey Road just off the Kings road but moved away in 1958 to Winson Green Road. Back in the day I have fond memories of Kingstanding but like a lot of Brum it's very run down.
 
I live not far from here and I agree, it's gone to rack and ruin. There was a lot of talk surrounding the pub arson attack and the supermarket planning request being declined just days before - coincidence maybe?
The whole precinct is, and always was, an eyesore. Most of the leases have now expired and 90% of it is boarded up. As far as I am aware, only Farmfoods, Supercigs (or whatever it's called these days), Card Factory and the casino are still open.

Talking about the bus stop, I could never understand why it was placed on the traffic island when there was so much space directly behind it to create a proper layby.

Entrance to the Air Raid shelter, on Kingstanding Road, Kingstanding, as mentioned on a different thread :)

Where about is this? I've grown up around here and never knew about it.
 
This is the one on Kings Rd, will have to think about the other

 
This is the one on Kings Rd, will have to think about the other



How the hell have I never noticed that in the last 30+ years? Do you know if it was filled in completely? Are there any pictures of inside? I'm into my WWII history.
 
Marsh Lane



As i see the filling in, big job to do the lot at the times, think only the entrance filled in
 
Marsh Lane



As i see the filling in, big job to do the lot at the times, think only the entrance filled in

I understand that was the case. I recall a team of people did open up one a few years back in another city, but cannot find the details again.
 
I mentioned long ago an underground place at the front of Perry Bar park that we as kids had discovered under a manhole, when we got in we found large tables covered in telephones which some of the lads started to play with.

We were all quickly turfed out of there when a bunch of cops arrived in just a few minutes. :)

I've been looking on Google to see if I could see the manhole but found at about the correct spot is what looks like an electricity sub station.
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Pictorial signboard” revival. Hadn’t realised it had ever gone out of favour !

Eric. Strangely I think that was almost the spot where the original Boars Head was located.


Viv.
 
This is the picture I have of the Kings Standing. I'm afraid I know nothing about it, as I am lost in that part of the world.

Phil


24/12/11. When reinstating this post I could not decide which photo I had originally used. So I have posted one of each version of the pub.

KingstandingOriginal.jpg
KingstandingKingstandingRdKingstanding.jpg


Kingstanding.jpg
Could you please repost these pictures. Thanx.
 
hi jellybabe..underneath phils avatar it say gone but not forgotten which mean that sadly phil passed away

lyn
 
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