County | Brewery | Location | Premises | Description | Contributors | Photo? Gone? |
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West Midlands: Dudley |
Ansells Brewery Ltd Birmingham | Audnam, Oak Park Road (corner of Lyndhurst Drive) | Oakfield Tavern (demolished) | On the front wall, a metal car park 'no liability' sign: 'ANSELLS BREWERY CO. LTD.'. The pub was demolished and replaced by flats by 2012. | SP photo 2009; Google 2012 | Picture GONE |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Harry Jeavons, Old Crown Brierley Hill | Brierley Hill, Brettell Lane | Old Crown (former) | Google shows in 2019 that two first floor windows have old etched lettering 'FINE HOME BREWED ALES'. | ACu; Google photo 2019 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Usher's Brewery Ltd Trowbridge | Cradley, 78-80 Windmill Hill | Little Chop House | A modern 'Ushers of Trowbridge' plaque adjacent to the rear entrance. Ushers took over this pub as part of the original 'Mad O Rourke' chain. | SP 2006 | . |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Julia Hanson & Sons Ltd Dudley | Dudley - Woodside, 169 Stourbridge Road | Old Coach & Horses | A 1960s pub, which had an original 'HANSONS' letter sign on the frontage. The sign had been removed by 2016. | SP 2008; Google photo 2011; Google 2016 | Picture GONE |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Julia Hanson & Sons Ltd Dudley | Dudley, 25 New Street | Court House Tavern | Interwar corner pub with a stone panel 'HANSONS' over the entrance. A brew-pub in the 19th century. | SP photo 2011 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Bass & Co Ltd - Burton-upon-Trent, Tadcaster, etc | Dudley, 68 High Street | Little Barrel | On the hanging sign, 'Bass' in fading script lettering. | SP photo 2018 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Julia Hanson & Sons Ltd Dudley | Dudley, Birmingham New Road A4123 | Former railway bridge | Painted lettering on a disused railway bridge across the A4123 at Dudley/Tipton: 'A Strong Link with the Past ... HANSONS MILD ALE'. (On both elevations.) | BI photo 2009 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Bert & Don Millard Dudley | Dudley, Steppingstone Street | Gipsies Tent (former) | The former 'tap' to Bert and Don Millard's Little Model Brewery, which stood behind, and which was demolished in 2004. The former pub retained its old fascia for many years: 'Established 1867 ... Gipsies Tent Inn ... Millard's Free House'. Refurbishment for another use in 2018 resulting in the removal of the fascia lettering. | BHS 1983; SP photo 2006 and 2018 | Picture GONE |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Holt Plant & Deakin (Allied subsidiary) Wolverhampton and Langley | Halesowen - Hasbury, Hagley Road | Rose & Crown | Three Holt's lanterns - two on the front and one on the side; also a Holt roundel above the hanging sign. All featured the brewery's 'key' logo. Holt's livery removed by 2018, when the pub sported Greene King livery. | SP 2013; Google 2018 | . GONE |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Mitchells & Butlers Ltd Smethwick | Halesowen, 21 Stourbridge Road | Waggon & Horses | The bar entrance door has decorative etched glass with 'M&B LD'. Rear-right of the bar (probably repositioned) was a leaded window with 'M&B LD' in a shield - but this window appears to have disappeared following refurbishment of the pub by new owners. The pub used to have M&B etched windows on the exterior, but all these had been replaced by 2006 following breakage. | SP photo 2006; SP 2017 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Ansells Brewery Ltd Birmingham | Kingswinford, 182 Cot Lane | Park Tavern | Metal car park 'no liability' sign: 'ANSELLS BREWERY CO LTD'. | SP 2007 | . |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Mitchells & Butlers Ltd Smethwick | Oldswinford, 22 Brook Road | Seven Stars | Built in 1907 for M&B. Numerous fine windows: (1) At least 12 etched ones - in most front bay windows, most internal doors, and rear room; these have a central roundel with a crown in the middle and 'MITCHELLS & BUTLERS LIMITED' around; some have 'ESTd 1781' and 'TRADE MARK'; variously have a scroll each side with 'ALES & STOUT', 'SMOKING ROOM', 'OUTDOOR DEPARTMENT'; on the toilet door 'WINES & SPIRITS' and 'LAVATORY'; the smoke room ones face inwards. (2) At least 18 stained and leaded panels in vibrant colours, a roundel of similar design to the etched ones with the brewery name, central part in red and blue, surrounded by leaves and flowers in green and yellow; these occur on the top level of the outer windows, at the top of the bar-back, and in the upper panels of internal doors. | PLo photo 2016; SP photo 2021 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Julia Hanson & Sons Ltd Dudley | Pensnett, 240 High Street | Poets Corner (formerly the Lion) (demolished) | Car park sign includes 'JULIA HANSON AND SONS LIMITED'. The pub was demolished and redeveloped as a convenience store by 2013. | SP 2005; Google 2016 | . GONE |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Holt Plant & Deakin (Allied subsidiary) Wolverhampton and Langley | Stourbridge, 107 Worcester Street | Plough & Harrow | Above the hanging sign, a roundel with the brewery's logo of a key with 'HOLTS' in a scroll. The interior features several surviving examples of the HPD logo in glasswork and mirrors. | SP photo 2022 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Homebrew | Stourbridge, 107 Worcester Street | Plough & Harrow | A former home-brew house (from about 1845; then Henrietta Moorcroft 1902-1940). In the glass over the door, painted lettering: 'LICENSED BREWER & Retailer of Ales Wines SPIRITS & TOBACCO To be consumed on the PREMISES'. | MBr photo 2021; SP photo 2022 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
William Butler & Co Ltd Wolverhampton | Stourbridge, 2 Lion Street | Red Lion (former) | Right of way sign with 'W BUTLER & CO LIMITED' and 'SPRINGFIELD BREWERY WOLVERHAMPTON'. The pub was converted to a private house in about 2014, but the plaque survives next to the front door, albeit painted white. | SP photo 2006; SP 2017 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
John & Horace G Pearson Wollaston | Wollaston, 154 Bridgnorth Road | Plough | In a semi-circular window over a door: 'PEARSONS ENTIRE' and a 'plough' illustration. In the two bay windows at the side: 'PEARSONS' in one window and 'ENTIRE' in the second. In the front door within the porch, an etched window with 'WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANT'. | AH 2005; SP photo 2006; MBr photo 2021 | Picture |
West Midlands: Dudley |
Julia Hanson & Sons Ltd Dudley | Wordsley, 32 Dock Road | Dock Off Licence and General Store | Adjacent to Lock no.10 on the Stourbridge Canal. Two painted board signs: 'HANSON'S ... DOCK OFF LICENCE ... GENERAL STORES'. | SP 2012 | . |