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Yew Tree pub sign Witton

Big Gee said:
Banjo, I think you're right. Just above your red arrow there's a squiggle which could be the name 'Ansells' in the cursive script they used. Did you live in or near Witton?

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Big Gee, I lived in Victoria Road, Aston around that time.
 
Banjo, I lived in The Broadway until 1971. My mother's family were from Bevington Road, and my father's from Frederick Road. Another world........

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Just adding to the Brookvale Road debate, there are road signs on both sides of the bridge with Brookvale Road on and the next road sign is at Gypsy Lane when the road changes to Marsh Hill. In my 1929 Bartholomew's, Brookvale Road starts at Witton circle.
 
Lady Penelope said:
Just adding to the Brookvale Road debate, there are road signs on both sides of the bridge with Brookvale Road on and the next road sign is at Gypsy Lane when the road changes to Marsh Hill. In my 1929 Bartholomew's, Brookvale Road starts at Witton circle.
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And further! In the 1880s Witton Road seems to extend to Gipsy Lane and then becomes Marsh Lane!
 
Hi Banjo, in response to your query about the sign at the Yew Tree pub in Witton (post no 14) you are spot on. I lived at the Yew Tree Pub, on the corner of Brookvale Road/Birch Road Witton in the early sixties (my dad was the licensee) and there was a sign on the gable of the house next door to the pub as you describe. A painter was depicted on a ladder painting an Ansells sign. I also remember a similar sign on the Cross Keys pub a bit further up the road in Erdington. These "Trompe-l'oeil paintings were evidently very popular in those days. Sadly I have no photographs of this but it was part of my life for a few years in the early sixties. The gable disappeared one night when a lorry careered into it. The aftermath of that is a story I may divulge one day...

WP
 
Big Gee said:
Banjo, I lived in The Broadway until 1971. My mother's family were from Bevington Road, and my father's from Frederick Road. Another world........

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My husband and his three sisters lived in The Broadway until mid sixties. The Kennedy family, corner of Melrose Road
 
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