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Marshell50
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Hi
Does anyone remember the Sir Harry pub near Pershore Road? I worked there early 1970s.
Does anyone remember the Sir Harry pub near Pershore Road? I worked there early 1970s.
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I rented a bed-sitter in a house on Bristol Rd. This house was just behind the Sir Harry and although I have never been a drinker, I used the pub quite often with my landlord who was an ex Birmingham Nightclub owner. That went on all through the late 60s and into the 70s.
hi marsh;
my old friend worked there behind the bar around that time
his name was tom he lived down 4 th avenue selly park just behind the selly park tavern
he also done the park tav .as well
after leaving there he tok on the bear pub on stratford rd
then he took over the fox hollies
then he moved down south into a country pub after a spell he died
i think the lady at the time was some-one called marie . a blonde middle lady whom was the licencee
she liked her drink she went to the pub managers general meeting
and she had been drinking and had a bump in her car
more or less just outside the police training grounds i went as a witness for her
to back up her story otherwise she could have lost her job
afew months later she moved on yes i have been there quite afew times over the years
astonian ;;;;;
my old friend worked there behind the bar around that time
his name was tom he lived down 4 th avenue selly park just behind the selly park tavern
he also done the park tav .as well
after leaving there he tok on the bear pub on stratford rd
then he took over the fox hollies
then he moved down south into a country pub after a spell he died
i think the lady at the time was some-one called marie . a blonde middle lady whom was the licencee
she liked her drink she went to the pub managers general meeting
and she had been drinking and had a bump in her car
more or less just outside the police training grounds i went as a witness for her
to back up her story otherwise she could have lost her job
afew months later she moved on yes i have been there quite afew times over the years
astonian ;;;;;
Hi, you will have served me and my friends from the Midlands Arts Centre for Young People - or MAC as it came to be known. We were there regularly, after rehearsals and performances, and on summer evenings we would sit on the benches outside. I don't believe we were any trouble????:grinsmile:
Regards
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Marshell50
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Hi astonian
I also worked at the Selly Park Tavern a few months after the Sir Harry. The landlord and his wife at selly park were an Irish couple. I used to have to work quite late there because of after time drinkers, won't say who they were but you mentioned a building in your message and that was where they were based. Do you remember the head barman there at all?
I also worked at the Selly Park Tavern a few months after the Sir Harry. The landlord and his wife at selly park were an Irish couple. I used to have to work quite late there because of after time drinkers, won't say who they were but you mentioned a building in your message and that was where they were based. Do you remember the head barman there at all?
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Marshell50
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Hi Maryd
Its a small world! I don't remember a rowdy bunch who used to sit outside!! It was a great pub though wasn't it?
Its a small world! I don't remember a rowdy bunch who used to sit outside!! It was a great pub though wasn't it?
HI MARCHELL
First part of your question yes i do remember you and also the biulding you are on about
and if the truth be known i could be very truth ful and say yes i could possible name the the people on the
after hours session , do you remember the big lad at sir harry,s pub whilst you was there
he also eventualy done a stint at the sir harrys he was of an irish descent as well .
he his a long standing friend of mine his name was pat. ?.
he later left and took on the fox hollies and then down to the bear o stratford rdfor a year or two
and now he runs a big pub - dinner down london for marsdens brewers
my friend pat lived directly behind the selly park taveren with his two sisters and a brother
they all grew up in that house he lost his mother and father many years ago
they supported each other and still do even now they are years older
i still go to the selly park taveren even now and have a drink with some of he old hands
like billy and his brother the two green grocers they ran a shop along the pershore rd for many years
they both still live in selly park today and billy still drinks s much as he did in his younger days
nice to hear from you marchell
oh and before i forget regarding be rowdy your lot from the mac was the decent laughers
i would not call you rowdy never but occasionionaly there was moments when ou may have had a group of rowdys come in after your group but they was not from the mac.
best wishes Astonian ;;;
First part of your question yes i do remember you and also the biulding you are on about
and if the truth be known i could be very truth ful and say yes i could possible name the the people on the
after hours session , do you remember the big lad at sir harry,s pub whilst you was there
he also eventualy done a stint at the sir harrys he was of an irish descent as well .
he his a long standing friend of mine his name was pat. ?.
he later left and took on the fox hollies and then down to the bear o stratford rdfor a year or two
and now he runs a big pub - dinner down london for marsdens brewers
my friend pat lived directly behind the selly park taveren with his two sisters and a brother
they all grew up in that house he lost his mother and father many years ago
they supported each other and still do even now they are years older
i still go to the selly park taveren even now and have a drink with some of he old hands
like billy and his brother the two green grocers they ran a shop along the pershore rd for many years
they both still live in selly park today and billy still drinks s much as he did in his younger days
nice to hear from you marchell
oh and before i forget regarding be rowdy your lot from the mac was the decent laughers
i would not call you rowdy never but occasionionaly there was moments when ou may have had a group of rowdys come in after your group but they was not from the mac.
best wishes Astonian ;;;
Hi,
Nah, we weren't rowdy - but we did laugh a lot outside on those benches on summer evenings. Can't remember if there were houses near enough to hear. You don't think when you are young do you? Mac was a great place, and the people at that time anyway who frequented it were good kids.
Regards
Maryd
Nah, we weren't rowdy - but we did laugh a lot outside on those benches on summer evenings. Can't remember if there were houses near enough to hear. You don't think when you are young do you? Mac was a great place, and the people at that time anyway who frequented it were good kids.
Regards
Maryd
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Marshell50
Guest
Hi astonian
nice to hear your memories. There was a resident band at the selly park tavern, Tom played the drums. What happened to the Irish couple that ran it, Niall and Bridie and all their kids? It was a huge pub and had bars upstairs as well.
I remember a tall Irish guy with black hair working behind the bar, very quiet, a bit of a loner. Also one of the Irish barmaids used to go out with a detective. Harry Butts newsagents was next door.
nice to hear your memories. There was a resident band at the selly park tavern, Tom played the drums. What happened to the Irish couple that ran it, Niall and Bridie and all their kids? It was a huge pub and had bars upstairs as well.
I remember a tall Irish guy with black hair working behind the bar, very quiet, a bit of a loner. Also one of the Irish barmaids used to go out with a detective. Harry Butts newsagents was next door.
paul stacey
master brummie
we lived just off the pershore road in raglan road and my dad used to joke to me that birmingham was great, he had a pub, and a road named after him, his name was "Harry Kitchener Stacey".
paul
paul
hi guys ;
paul ; when was it when you passed it and wondering whether or not its gonna reopen ;?
paul i am going down to selly park today to se afew people ;and i will asked about the name of kitchener rd to see if any body knows any think about the name the irish lad whom worked at thr pub as died afew years ago i knew him very well ; i see his twin brother and sisters regular ;
and i remember maria whom used to run the sir harrys years ago he went on to run the bear on stratford rd and moved to a thriving pub in london where he died but in is training of the licence trade he had under his belt the plough and harrow training for years that prompted him to go in the licence trade ; thats the corner of plough and harrow rd and hagley rd ;
i will be asking certain people todat about the reopening as a pub ; i would be very surprized if they do ; still one never knows
but i do not think it will be a brewery pub its possible a private owner and if it is there is only two fore runners i can think off
whom may have put ainvested intrest in it still we can only wait and see the council and the police have cleaned up the area abit now so itmay be reopened as a pub again
have a nice day guys best wishes astonian
paul ; when was it when you passed it and wondering whether or not its gonna reopen ;?
paul i am going down to selly park today to se afew people ;and i will asked about the name of kitchener rd to see if any body knows any think about the name the irish lad whom worked at thr pub as died afew years ago i knew him very well ; i see his twin brother and sisters regular ;
and i remember maria whom used to run the sir harrys years ago he went on to run the bear on stratford rd and moved to a thriving pub in london where he died but in is training of the licence trade he had under his belt the plough and harrow training for years that prompted him to go in the licence trade ; thats the corner of plough and harrow rd and hagley rd ;
i will be asking certain people todat about the reopening as a pub ; i would be very surprized if they do ; still one never knows
but i do not think it will be a brewery pub its possible a private owner and if it is there is only two fore runners i can think off
whom may have put ainvested intrest in it still we can only wait and see the council and the police have cleaned up the area abit now so itmay be reopened as a pub again
have a nice day guys best wishes astonian
paul stacey
master brummie
dear astonian the last time I passed the pub would be around 1963, you remember the good old days, the road I was thinking of was
"Sir Harry's Road" although I would't be suprised if there was't a Kitchener road. best of luck.
regards
paul
"Sir Harry's Road" although I would't be suprised if there was't a Kitchener road. best of luck.
regards
paul
hi paul ;
nice to hear from you again; i was down in selly park on saturday ; but unfortuneately i did for get to go down to the sir harry pub to check it out i went to the restuarant on pershore rd with friends and the selly park taveren but i completely for got to asked some of my assocates
about what you mentioned ; but still yes there is a kitchener rd just along from the selly park taveren pub ;
which wen you walk down takes you into the back end of cannon hill park its a very quite rd and residential and a well kept rd
and all the house are the same built from top to bottom with bay windows i would not like to guess what year they was built in very early years
when walking from the selly park pub which is a good pub with food and beers and icidently you can meet nick owen in there mor often than no
he rubs and talks shoulders with every body it is his regular but getting back on track along the prshore rd you have a sequence of avenues
from one to four then you have wallis rd then also icidently many years ago there was a family of stacys living in the rd
and uncanny it may sound there was a lovely blonde lady whom was middle aged live very close to the corner of th street which incidently also takes you into cannon hill park at the bottom of the street but just at the top of the street back on the pershore rd as you turn on to it
heading towards stirchley and dog poollane way was many years ago a mr martin whom was the very mr martin of the estate bussiness in the area
his office was full of elephats i surpose they was lucky ascotts for him even on his letter heads of bussiness papers and he lived oppersite his office on pershore rd in a very large nice bunolow ; but this stacy lady was his peronal secretary and she knew her bussiness and on estate managements
and what i am saying is that kitchener rd the house she lived in behind the office so to speak was called wallis rd selly park
and kitchener rd was the next rd along pershore rd from walliss rd selly park
so is this stacy lady any connection to your relatives ; and yes sir harrys rd is still there they are all big houses and i mean big houses
along with the big names of highly proffessional people in brum but saying that one or wo have moved out over the yers owing to the decline of the sir harrys rd but i will not go into them which i could say but ihad not better not because of the new private laws not that i can say bad about them
because of the top people i know personaly and they still hold high offices in birmingham whom i have actualy associated with them in one way or another and knowingly know alot about there personal lived i would say a word about them i have seen there kids grow up as well and succeded
in life and in one or another i have been to there garden partysmore often than not ;
no i am not name dropping it is because you mentioned sir harrys rd and the people that lived up there of high flyers in so many words
becuase of the postions whom are involved with our city and the certain establishments they are still running today in our city ;
but whatyou had said about a relative getting the named after him or the family named after it for connections
when i first read the thread it was martins the estate agents whom first came into my mind and the lady secretary made me think was that your family comnnectins after all i do not know the history of martins the estate agents but mr martin was a very wealthy man and a city gent and he would have been around possible aslong as jack dixon anther city estate agents long before war years
well paul i had better get off hear and let some body else get a word in sorry if i went off on this and taking up space
paul have a nice day best wishes alan astonian
nice to hear from you again; i was down in selly park on saturday ; but unfortuneately i did for get to go down to the sir harry pub to check it out i went to the restuarant on pershore rd with friends and the selly park taveren but i completely for got to asked some of my assocates
about what you mentioned ; but still yes there is a kitchener rd just along from the selly park taveren pub ;
which wen you walk down takes you into the back end of cannon hill park its a very quite rd and residential and a well kept rd
and all the house are the same built from top to bottom with bay windows i would not like to guess what year they was built in very early years
when walking from the selly park pub which is a good pub with food and beers and icidently you can meet nick owen in there mor often than no
he rubs and talks shoulders with every body it is his regular but getting back on track along the prshore rd you have a sequence of avenues
from one to four then you have wallis rd then also icidently many years ago there was a family of stacys living in the rd
and uncanny it may sound there was a lovely blonde lady whom was middle aged live very close to the corner of th street which incidently also takes you into cannon hill park at the bottom of the street but just at the top of the street back on the pershore rd as you turn on to it
heading towards stirchley and dog poollane way was many years ago a mr martin whom was the very mr martin of the estate bussiness in the area
his office was full of elephats i surpose they was lucky ascotts for him even on his letter heads of bussiness papers and he lived oppersite his office on pershore rd in a very large nice bunolow ; but this stacy lady was his peronal secretary and she knew her bussiness and on estate managements
and what i am saying is that kitchener rd the house she lived in behind the office so to speak was called wallis rd selly park
and kitchener rd was the next rd along pershore rd from walliss rd selly park
so is this stacy lady any connection to your relatives ; and yes sir harrys rd is still there they are all big houses and i mean big houses
along with the big names of highly proffessional people in brum but saying that one or wo have moved out over the yers owing to the decline of the sir harrys rd but i will not go into them which i could say but ihad not better not because of the new private laws not that i can say bad about them
because of the top people i know personaly and they still hold high offices in birmingham whom i have actualy associated with them in one way or another and knowingly know alot about there personal lived i would say a word about them i have seen there kids grow up as well and succeded
in life and in one or another i have been to there garden partysmore often than not ;
no i am not name dropping it is because you mentioned sir harrys rd and the people that lived up there of high flyers in so many words
becuase of the postions whom are involved with our city and the certain establishments they are still running today in our city ;
but whatyou had said about a relative getting the named after him or the family named after it for connections
when i first read the thread it was martins the estate agents whom first came into my mind and the lady secretary made me think was that your family comnnectins after all i do not know the history of martins the estate agents but mr martin was a very wealthy man and a city gent and he would have been around possible aslong as jack dixon anther city estate agents long before war years
well paul i had better get off hear and let some body else get a word in sorry if i went off on this and taking up space
paul have a nice day best wishes alan astonian
paul stacey
master brummie
dear astonian thank you for all the interesting info, I don't think that the lady in question was from our family though, my dad came to Brum from the Oxford City Police and was based at steel house lane where he met my mom (adam) family from handsworth. I wish they were around now to tell all this info sadly past away many years ago.
kind regards paul
kind regards paul
sistersue61
master brummie
What a pity they had to change the name though - it will only ever be the Sir Harry to the locals who have grown up with it.
Have visited there a couple of times during the early 80s it was always a lively pub then! - nothing to do with the nurses visiting of course lol
Astonian, love reading your posts, you make the place come to life with all your knowledge!
Sue
Have visited there a couple of times during the early 80s it was always a lively pub then! - nothing to do with the nurses visiting of course lol
Astonian, love reading your posts, you make the place come to life with all your knowledge!
Sue
Hi. I just stumbled across this old post. I have found an old record of Raymond Henson giving the Sir Harry as his address in 1977 and wonder if anyone remembers him as the landlord. Looking at the old photos, it looks as though there was accommodation upstairs, but I suppose that there could have been flats. Grateful for any memories.
Many thanks
Russ
Many thanks
Russ
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