Rum and Aniseed Now that brings back lots of memories was my Fav for a long time!!Every year Marsh & Baxters held their staff Xmas party at the Swan.We were never invited because we were not classed as staff.But in1957 they wanted someone to blow up the Balloons.I volunteered and got invited.On the night knowing most of the staff (by doing repairs on their cars ) they bought me drinks.I was drinking Rum & Aniseed.At the end of the night got to the top of the stairs missed my footing and you know what happened.Someone who knew were I lived put me in their car and took me home.Was I embarrassed on the Monday when I went into work![]()
S & U Stores Edgbaston St, held their Christmas/New Years Party at the Swan I went to two of them 1961,1962..Love to know how the people I worked with are Now...The Swan before WWI
Old Birmingham, work and leisure by Armstrong, E. G. A. (Eric George Abbott)
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What fab photos and so many memories of living in that area from 1938 to 1957 "Birds" that I snogged in the back of Tivoli watching Flash Gordon movies and the Movietone news!! Playing at the Swan with my band in the 1950s Thanks so much for posting this.a good site about the swan my apology if its been posted before
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THEN & NOW on the Outer Circle – stage 12
The Outer Circle now approaches what will be forever known as The Swan, although there is no longer a pub here with that name. The first known “Swan” inn was recorded in 1605 sited on the left befo…outercirclebus.com
you are welcome ob.What fab photos and so many memories of living in that area from 1938 to 1957 "Birds" that I snogged in the back of Tivoli watching Flash Gordon movies and the Movietone news!! Playing at the Swan with my band in the 1950s Thanks so much for posting this.
Nostalgia overload! Thanks for posting.a good site about the swan my apology if its been posted before
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THEN & NOW on the Outer Circle – stage 12
The Outer Circle now approaches what will be forever known as The Swan, although there is no longer a pub here with that name. The first known “Swan” inn was recorded in 1605 sited on the left befo…outercirclebus.com
I found this photo of me and my sister Joan I look about 3-4 years old so it must be prewar I was born in 1933 I think then we lived in Yardley Brum but in the background is a TROLLEY BUS!!Nostalgia overload! Thanks for posting.
Trolley buses to Arden Oak in 1940's with my grand dad to walk up to Elmdon Airport. Tivoli with my mom in 1950's to see Jimmy Stewart, Ian Carmichael, Jean Simmons, et al.
That's the shop I booked tickets for 1968 honeymoon, and that's where I use to buy EP records in 1950's.
My 1930's Wolseley NF couldn't get down the Tivoli multi storey car park without using forward and reverse gears.
We used the library after work when we first married and lived in Stockfield Rd.
And then the Swan, the only pub I have ever used as a local, upstairs room for apprentice dances in 1960's and the "snug" to the left of the main entrance of the "old" Swan for putting the world to rights. Remember the tartan carpet in the back room of the new Swan, had a Scots work colleague who wanted one for his home until he found out the price!
i do remember the co-op insurance co was in that office blockThe Swan Centre in the process of being built in the 1970s. The office block seen here would house the HQ for the Bryant building group. Viv.View attachment 177433Source: British Newspaper Archive
Thats ME!Yeah, but what about the bloke on the bike?
I remember the rebuilt, huge Swan, which was reputed to be at the time (by my mates) the largest pub in Europe! Whatever it was or wasn't, two things about it are worth a mention.The Swan.1967.
It was demolished years agoIs the 1960's pub still there ???????????
Yes I remember it well, my friend and I used to treck over there from the Perry Barr area sometimes, they had some really good bands on during that period, as you say, ones we would have seen at Mothers Club too.I remember the rebuilt, huge Swan, which was reputed to be at the time (by my mates) the largest pub in Europe! Whatever it was or wasn't, two things about it are worth a mention.
First, the room known to me as the Tartan Room was no doubt actually the Highland Room, and was, as I remember it during the week, for men only (how things change so quickly, and for the better of course).
The second event was a performance advertised for the large upstairs room, which I went to because it was by a band I used to watch at Mothers at Erdington, and had not seen or heard of for a while, Fleetwood Mac (not Peter Greene's). We went thinking it was the same as the 'old' band, to be treated instead to a first-class evening of rock from some I recognized (Christine Perfect - now McVie, Mick on drums and John on bass), with two new faces I later found out were Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. It was unforgettably good.
The large upstairs room was packed that night, anyone else remember it?
Replaced by housing. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.462...4!1sydPcGXQI-2bzyVlHh3Ugzg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192Is the 1960's pub still there ???????????
...or run out of petrol?Maybe his chain has come off!
The type of bus & cars suggests 1950s or1960s.Its a great photograph, would we have some idea of date?
Motor cyclist appears to have a flat hat ie no crash helmet. Did the Swan have traffic lights at some stage? Went past there to school 56-58 then to work until around 1970. The bay window, to the right of the Ford Thames van was the "snug" great room for a quiet drink! Thanks for the memories.View attachment 180813I love this view. A busy scene with plenty of scope for poring over the details. Something for everyone. Strangely the man on the motorbike seems to have dismounted on what was, even then, a busy roundabout ! Viv.
Or even a telegram "boy".Could the motor cyclist have been a postman ? Viv