368 Duke of Westminster 37 Watson Street - 167/9 Price Street
On doing my family tree I've discovered that my grandmother was a servant at the above address. The head of house was an Isabella Foulkes described as a licenced victualler. Was this a pub??
Last edited by Mark; 27th Nov 20129:10am. Reason: Title Re-named
Not sure when victualler became a butcher but never mind. Think that was just a catch all name for food supplier. i.e. Licensed victualler was a booze seller. I can't see 167/9 on Berts directory or am I missing something?
Both the street directories appear to be wrog. I've also cocked up by calling it the Prince AlBERT which would have been at number 157 on this 1950's map. I,ve got the Westminster down as Duke of Westminster from 1881 licence register
Anyone know what the club was just by it number 161?
On the 1950s map Watson Street is between numbers 167 and 169 Possibly building numbers may have been re-numbered as some were demolished and others built between your dates and the 1950s
I worked at the Westmister Hotel when my uncle Joseph Patrick Lynch was the landlord in the late 1950s. It was definitely # 167-169 with a wider frontage on Price Street compared with Watson Street, although the private entrance for the accommodation upstairs was in Watson Street. It was a three storey building with the top floor given over to a number of small rooms all interconnecting without a corridor. rather odd. I was told by old timers that some locals refused to drink in the Westminster as it had accommodated the Birmingham Police during the national police strike years ago.
Does anyone have a photograph? Wirral Archives in Canning Street doesn't. I've been there, done that. DerekDWC's map of c1950s looks right as there was a back room leading from the bar and on a higher level if my memory is correct. Perhaps this area had been added on at some time as it doesn't appear on earlier maps.
