Boot, Boat and Goat

Facebook post #023 (Jun 2020)

To those awaiting the reopening of the Great British pub… I didn’t know we’d ever had a pub in the family but it turns out there were many. Pictured is one of a handful that will hopefully reopen soon – the Rose & Crown in Stirchley, Shropshire.

Luck ran out for most of them over time, a couple due to road improvements, and quite a lot of Birmingham has been knocked down… The unluckiest was probably the Plough Inn in Gillingham, Kent, which was bombed in 1941, killing 2nd cousin Fred. It was rebuilt, and knocked down again in the early C21.

Others included:

* Travellers’ Inn, St Helier, Jersey

* Goat, Liverpool

* Cuckoo Vaults (or predecessor), Liverpool

* Rodney Inn, Little Baddow, Essex

* Greyhound, Blandford Forum, Dorset

* Smithfield Hotel, Lichfield, Staffordshire

* Bordesley Park Tavern, Deritend, Birmingham

* White Hart, Ingatestone, Brentwood, Essex

* Kingfisher, Biggin nr York

* White Lion, Doncaster

* Horse & Groom, Ripple, Worcestershire

* Rose & Crown, Ledbury Road, Hereford

* Boot Inn, Sutton Coldfield

* White House, Gillingham, Kent

* Ram’s Head, Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire

* Rozel Bay Hotel, Jersey

* Wellhead Tavern (latterly Hare of the Dog), Birmingham

* Tyburn House, Erdington, Birmingham

* 81 Highgate Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham

* Boat Inn, Minworth, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham

* Horseshoe Inn, Stone, Staffordshire

* White Lion, Doncaster, Yorkshire

* Wilton Arms (latterly Captain Cook), Fulham, London

* The Inn, Clanfield, Oxon (boarding?)…

…and the pianist at the Palace Hotel, Southend-on-Sea, Essex…

…and various brewery workers, including a drayman at Charington’s Blue Anchor Brewery, Mile End, London