White Horse - York Street, Harborne

[ellbrown]

Pub signs have changed. The White Horse seen on York Street in Harborne in 2015.



Festival Ale House.



As of 2018 now run by Ostler's.



Ostler's Alehouses

 

[Phil]

The White Horse just off the High Street back in the 60's when it was an Ansells house, and looking more like it did when I occasionally used it on a Sunday lunch time in the late 60's with a mate who worked for Ansells.

 

[DavidGrain]

For reasons that I am not aware of, the White Horse was owned by Birmingham City Council until a few years ago (c2011). Possibly because of the public car park behind the pub

 

[Radiorails]

I wonder, David, if the city had a compulsory purchase order on it in the past? Maybe they had an idea to rebuild the school next door? Something, or a garden, has been replaced by the new Harborne Medical practice the other pub neighbour.

 

[DavidGrain]

Although I travel along and visit Harborne High Street regularly, I have not been up York Street or used the the public car park since the Harborne Medical Practice was built. I no longer live in the area. The White Horse was probably acquired by the city council at the time the public car park was laid out but that is a pure guess. The only reason that I know that the council owned it was because I saw it on a list of about 16 properties to be disposed of in the minutes of a council committee in about 2011 because I was part of a campaign to prevent the council disposing of a former school for which there was claimed to be no further requirement yet all the schools in the Harborne and Quinton area were all oversubscribed and a new school is now having to be built in the area.