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Wheatsheaf Inn - Dudley Road

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Astonian

gone but not forgotten
hi does anybody knows if the wheatsheaf pub is still operational
the wheatsheaf was on the corner of dudley rd and icknield port rd
by summer field rd and in the70 or the eighty,s it was run by a family from heath st winson green the lads grew up in the winson green
there parents and the lads knew the clientel of winson green
best wishes astonian ;;;
 
Wow Astonian:)That has bought back so many memories..I am not sure if the pub is still there..will check it out next time i am in the area:)
 
I'll save you a trip Maggie. I've just had a look on street view. A picture is attached.

Terry
 

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hi hanco and magie
first of all hanco the picture is brilliant and of course you have made two people happy by bringing back happy memories , especialy for me at least
some good -some bad ones i can recall in that pub i don,nt know about maggie
i m sure she had some good moments in the back room
maggie i don,t know whether you can recall the old gather of the b.a but he got transfered to the wheat sheaf fifty,s or the sixty,s a little fellow with glass.s
then 80s the gulls from heath street took it on and i think they was there to the end of the day best wishes astonian;;
 
Hi Alan:)I didn't go in there very often.. one of the pubs i did use was on the corner of Crabtree Rd..can't remember now what is was called it was the prince of ? and the other one was just over from the hospital past the old windmill..:)
 
maggie you don,t mean the duke of wellinton
that would have been the very top of westeren rd i don,t recal a pub on crabtree rd
astonian
 
Yes Alan that was the one on the Dudley Road I used to use:)The Prince of ? one was on the corner halfway up Crabtree Road the corner where ,,,, was it Prescott street met Crabtree Rd..its doing my head in now what the pub was called:)
 
hi maggie..theres a pub called the birmingham arms...just past the windmill...its closed.....:(

lyn
 
hi maggie
yes i think i recall it now it was one or the other rd,s i was thinking of
i was thinking of new spring st but i completely forgotten prescott st
completely out of my mind it was a big houseas i remember it and nipper adams of the adams family the adams lived afew yards from the door of the pub
now my brain is starting to work over time on this one if our friend astoness hasnt checked her book before me i will tell you later , speak to you soon maggs
give tom my regards for the pics brilliant its the church that i thought you meant
i will visit it myself and probable give old george a knock on his door and have a chat
if hes at home speak later maggs , god bless you both , brilliant astonian ,;;
 
hi astonian...i havnt got my book at the moment so perhaps you could sort this one out....

cheers...

lyn:):)
 
Thanks Lyn I know the B. A but this pub was on the corner of Crabtree Rd and Prescott St and it really is doing me head in now..it was the Prince of ?:)
Astonian you are right about Nipper sending you an I.M:)
 
hi dave....great minds think alike...but be a bit careful with that site as it is not always accurate as we have found out in the past.....

astoness...:):):)
 
dave and maggie..if i come accross a pic of the prince george i will post it for you....

lyn:)
 
thanks dave for that listing of that site found it to be very intresting
i do not hold references or books on these pubs even thou i have worked for a couple of brewerys up and down the country i do have ledgers from the old days when the visulisers tasted and tested and sold the beers from the early 1800 and the 1900.s
to well known boozers of yester days all my knowledge is through expereincing and working with in these different brewers and of course drinking in them regularly
as i said before all my knowledge is in my head but yes i like your site
its handy to have on hand i was hoping to inform maggie .after i taxing my brain but you and astoness got the advantage over me and put it first wel done guys
for releiving our maggie of a restless night best wishes astonian ;;;
 
many a good time i had in this pub as a customer and a member of staff . good memories for me and we did have some good times there. my family kelly and ronnie left there 6 years ago and moved to the black country. the pub then started to decline rapidly and despite various attemps to retrive it it faiked miserably. it was last orders for this pub in july 2009 when it was demolished 'its still quite a sad sight to see that vacant wasteland on the corner and people will remember this pub wheter it was a good time or a bad time they had there. and a 135 years after standing on that spot still remains the talking point of winson green the wheatsheaf was the place to be for all the gossip and activity that went on in the area
 
My great uncle (Joseph Smith) and aunt (Rosina Gertrude Checkley) ran the pub "The Wheatsheaf" during WWII. When my mother's (Jean May Ray) house on 2 Bk/42 Whitmore Street got bombed during the Blitz of WWII (November 1940), she and her parents (Edward John Ray and Violet Checkley) were staying there until they moved to 46 Whitmore Street. My great aunt (Rosina Gertrude Checkley) later emigrated to New Zeeland in 1967 to live with her grandchildren. The pub was demolished in August 2009.
 
My great uncle (Joseph Smith) and aunt (Rosina Gertrude Checkley) ran the pub "The Wheatsheaf" during WWII. When my mother's (Jean May Ray) house on 2 Bk/42 Whitmore Street got bombed during the Blitz of WWII (November 1940), she and her parents (Edward John Ray and Violet Checkley) were staying there until they moved to 46 Whitmore Street. My great aunt (Rosina Gertrude Checkley) later emigrated to New Zeeland in 1967 to live with her grandchildren. The pub was demolished in August 2009.
 
There are some key phrases on my site such as "it is thought that ..." or "some have suggested..." "it may be that...." where I have no way of checking primary or trusted secondary sources on a given fact. On the other hand where a sentence I have typed states something as fact, it is because I have tracked down the original document, record, photograph, register etc. Of course, some errors are made by directory compilers, census enumerators etc. Even maps are not to be completely trusted because they are an interpretation of the landscape by a mapmaker. We encounter errors in local history books and websites - the Spring Hill Library debate being a good case - so I tend not to trust, say, caption books until I can verify the facts for myself.
 
Kieron
Other points to remember with maps is that some revisions were not complete. The ones labelled c1913-15 in a few places seem to be out of date , in that the attribution of some features seems to refer to a slightly earlier time. this is also true of the c1889 large scale maps, where some companies listed at a particular place appear there in directories only up to sometimes 6 years before that date . The c1938 revision is in many cases incomplete, with areas blank, probably because of loss of material during bombing of the OS buildings in Southampton in the war
 
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