Old Contemptibles pub

[Patrickneame]

I thought you might all like to see the following pub sign from Birmingham city centre. The Old Contemptibles was refurbished fairly recently and the old pub sign, a picture of a tin hatted soldier on watch in a trench, replaced with this. It seems that someone knows their history.

[Alan Tucker]

This is just not any old pub. This is the drill hall and HQ of the Birmingham Pals of the Great War Forum!

[Chris_Baker]

The old sign showed a Tommy in a tin hat in a Somme-like trench.

[iain mchenry]

Would this pub be walking distance from the NIA? I am there next month for a concert and if it is, I would like to pop in for a pint.

Regards

Iain

[Rockdoc]

This should help.

Keith

[Ron Clifton]

The old sign showed a Tommy in a tin hat in a Somme-like trench.

Wouldn't a Tommy in a cap SD standing in a Mons-type trench have been more appropriate?

Ron

[Patrickneame]

Would this pub be walking distance from the NIA? I am there next month for a concert and if it is, I would like to pop in for a pint.

Regards

Iain

Fifteen minutes from the NIA to the pub.

[iain mchenry]

Keith,

I have that map printed off and ready, but what street is the pub on?

Regards

Iain

[paul leeson]

Keith

176 Edmund St behind Snowhill railway station.

Look out for all the law students in there though !!!

Paul

[Owen Hales]

Fifteen minutes from the NIA to the pub.

And think of it as a recce for the next Birmingham meet !

Owen Hales