Built in 1903, as Birmingham Provincial Bank, being used up until 1970 as various banks and insurance offices, in 1970 … More
Tag: High St.
HIGHCROSS COFFEE & COCOA TAVERN, HIGH STREET/HIGHCROSS STREET
This is the previous building that stood on the Wetherspoons site. Unlicensed for many years until 1999. Highcross Coffee & … More
HIGHCROSS 103-105 HIGH STREET/HIGHCROSS STREET
On the corner of High Street and Highcross Street, J. D. Wetherspoon converted a retail lighting shop into one of … More
LITTEN TREE – RED HOT, 91-93 HIGH STREET
Opened in October 2000, just after the Queen of Bradgate next door and, suffered the same fate – it closed … More
QUEEN OF BRADGATE, 93 – 97 HIGH STREET
Opened in 1999, in a disused furniture warehouse but lasted only a decade. Put up for sale in 2010. It … More
SHOULDER OF MUTTON – HAUNCH OF VENISON – ORANGE TREE – THE TREE, 99 HIGH STREET
Elizabeth Watson’s husband obviously stayed on at the Shoulder of Mutton as his death was reported on the 5th of … More
CROWN – YE OLDE CROWN – COOPERS DINING & REFRESHMENT ROOMS, HIGH STREET
Recorded as early as 1560. In the 1880s, it became known as Dining and Refreshment Rooms occupied in 1883 by … More
HARE & PHEASANT, 87 HIGH STREET
Photo above: The Hare & Pheasant, taken by Eric Swift, shortly after its closure to become a Post Office, circa … More
RENOIR, HIGH STREET
1990s café-bar next to the entrance to the new Shires Shopping Centre.
CRUMBLIN’ COOKIE – COOKIE, 68 HIGH STREET
The Crumblin’ Cookie coffee bar became popular circa 2012, being advertised as ‘more than just a coffee bar’, with alcoholic … More