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The Station Pub near New Street Station

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Yvonne

proper brummie kid
anyone remember if such a pub existed - called The Station and close to New Street Station.

Many thanks
 
Hi Yvonne,

Are you sure it wasn't the Crown in Station St, I have heard this misnamed as the Station a few times. I have never heard of a pub called The Station in the locality of New Street station in my times. but it is certainly possible there could have been one before that.

Phil
 

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This is the place I always knew as the Station. There is another pub in the same street about 80 yards to the right as you look at this pic.
 

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Thanks everyone. No I am not sure it wasn't The Crown but you have confirmed what I thought - there are only two places it could possibly be.

Cheers
 
Yvonne & Beamish

Please excuse me, it shows how often I have been into town lately, Beamish perhaps you can tell me when did the Market Hotel change its name to the Station Bar. Has it been changed long?

Phil
 
I may be wrong, but think that hte Bar might have been called the Station Bar back in the 1970s, though i think you didn't use the entrance on the right which now has the name over it.
Mike
 
I can remember standing at the bus stop, I think perhaps in the late 60's and Tommy Docherty the then Villa manager came out of the Station Bar, crossed the road and said to me, 'are you going to the match this afternoon?' to which I replied 'not to watch your lot I'm not.' I've been trying to think back and for some reason I've always thought that place was called The Station or may be even the Station Hotel.
 
I think it was the Market Hotel, but do think it was ht estation Bar inside it.
 
Me and my mates used to meet up in here, we always knew it as the Market, late 60s but some people called it the Station, the Crown was the other end of the street,
 
I know let's call it the Market Station Hotel or the Station Market Hotel or to be really posh Le Gare Marche Auberge en Le Rep Ancient
 
Circa 1960`s i knew the Station Hotel when going to Bocker & Bettridge` Dance school which was a few doors away from the pub. Len.
 
The station hotel was often used by staff from New Street, before the drugs and alcohol policy, and it was often asked "where's so and so?", "oh they are on platform 13", was the reply, New Street only having 12 platforms everyone new where they were, it became that popular the bar was renamed platform 13!
 
In the 60s there was a pub just outside the entrance to the old New Street Stn which was known as the Station. It was very popular with the Irish who used it as a meeting place before they caught a train to Hollyhead which used to leave at 10-10 pm. Many an Irishman got so settled in the Station that he missed the train.
When the pub was demolished in the late 60 the workers worked till dark and they used to have a big fire for burning the old wood when some machine driver pushed some gas bottles into the fire which caused a large explosion which blew in the windows on the nearby buildings and also the Taxi cabs. This is how I remembered what happened It seems like it was yesterday, If Im wrong please reply
 
Packerx

Many thanks for this. I think this hits the nail on the head. My original post was prompted by a query from someone who now lives in Leeds who used to study in B'ham in the 60s and went to the Station pub frequently at weekends. He said it was a wild place to be! He thought it might have been demolished by now which is why I put the query on this site. I started to doubt that it had because of the existing Crown pub so thought he might have been mistaken thinking the Crown had been the Station he had visited but I think your answer explains exactly where it was and that it has in fact now gone. Many thanks.
 
lencops said:
Circa 1960`s i knew the Station Hotel when going to Bocker & Bettridge` Dance school which was a few doors away from the pub. Len.
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Blimey Len, you're bringing back some memories there! If you're not careful I'll look out my Bronze medal I got there.
 
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