Some history of the Old Windmill on Dudley Road at Winson Green in Birmingham in the county of Warwickshire
The Old Windmill was the last pub on Dudley Road to close down. Towards the end of its days it was the only pub between the old M&B brewery at Cape Hill and Summer Row in the city centre. I believe that the Covid-19 pandemic was the final nail in the coffin for the house struggling to keep the sails turning.
MORE ON THE OLD WINDMILL
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![Birmingham : Map extract showing the site of the Good Companions at Yardley [1888]](https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/images/birmingham/dudley-road-old-windmill-map-1855.jpg "Birmingham : Map extract showing the site of the Good Companions at Yardley [1888]")
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![Birmingham : The Old Windmill on Dudley Road at Winson Green [c.1961]](https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/images/birmingham/dudley-road-old-windmill.jpg "Birmingham : The Old Windmill on Dudley Road at Winson Green [c.1961]")
© Image from author's photographic archive. DO NOT COPY
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Licensees of the Old Windmill
1859 - 1876 Thomas Stonely
1876 - William Cheshire and William Goldby
1877 - Benjamin Cooper
1881 - Henry Bullard
1884 - J. Hill
1890 - George Titcumb
1891 - Annie Elizabeth Taylor
1891 - Hannah Osbourne
1894 - Henry George Wilkes
1932 - 1936 N. H. Tipping
1936 - 1939 Hulbert Bench
1939 - 1940 H. C. Harrison
1940 - Luke Ernest Latham
1954 - Frederick John Bicknell
Note : this is not a complete list of licensees for this pub. The dates of early licensees are sourced from trade directories, census
data, electoral rolls, rate books and newspaper articles. Names taken from trade directories may be slightly inaccurate as there is some slippage from publication dates
and the actual movement of people. The listing for 1932 to 1940 is complete and accurate as these names are sourced from brewery property books and ledgers.
These records are hand-written and I have done my best to transcribe them accurately, though some scribbles of the clerks can be hard to determine.
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![Birmingham : Inn Sign of the Old Windmill on Dudley Road at Winson Green [2002]](https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/images/birmingham/dudley-road-old-windmill-inn-sign.jpg "Birmingham : Inn Sign of the Old Windmill on Dudley Road at Winson Green [2002]")
© Photo taken by author on May 3rd, 2002. DO NOT COPY
"William Hanson Lowe [69], brass finisher, Mill Lane, Digbeth, and William Jones [60], Camden Grove, Camden
Street, were charred with obtaining 6d. by false representations from Mr. Cooper, landlord of the Old Windmill Inn, Dudley Road. On Saturday last the
prisoners went to the prosecutor, and Jones said they had received ten shillings from a Mr. Turner, pen manufacturer, Icknield Port Road, and nine shillings from
other persons, towards a fund for getting Lowe into the Sanatorium in Stratford Road, and that they wanted one shilling more to make up the sovereign. During this
time, Lowe, who put on an appearance of great dejection, continued coughing, and conducting himself as if very unwell. On the strength of these representations Mr.
Cooper gave them 6d. Subsequently he was informed, by a person who had reason to believe that the prisoners made this a general practice, that he had been
"done," and prisoners were watched, seen to go to other places, and heard to make similar representations. The prisoners were then taken into custody by
Sergeant Newbold, who on searching them found 8d. only on each. Lower, against whom there was a previous conviction, was sent to gaol for three months, and Jones
for one month."
"Charge Of False Pretences"
Birmingham Daily Post : June 1st 1880 Page 7
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