Some history of the Chapel Tavern on Great Charles Street in Birmingham in the county of Warwickshire

The Chapel Tavern was located on the north-western side of Great Charles Street, on the south-western corner of Ludgate Hill. There was a pub on the opposite side of Great Charles Street but the White Swan Tavern was technically in Church Street.

Birmingham : Map extract showing the location of the Chapel Tavern on Great Charles Street [1889]
© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with kind permission of the National Library of Scotland under the Creative Commons Attribution licence.

I have marked the location of the Church Tavern on the above map extract surveyed in 1887 and published two years later. The address of the premises was No.123 Great Charles Street.

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Mitchell's and Butler's.

More information to follow ....

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Licensees of the Chapel Tavern

1803 - Joseph Hurdman
1814 - 1820 Joseph Gardener
1820 - Charles Simpson
1845 - Thomas Nelson Bielby
1861 - H. Fulford
1888 - Robert Gedling Burton
1929 - 1938 Albert William Greatrex
1938 - 1939 William James Lomas
1939 - Alex McShane
1941 - Clifford Brinkworth
1944 - 1948 Walter Robert Hammond
1948 - 1958 Arthur Cox
1958 - 1962 Edward George Cutler
1962 - 1963 Harry Simes Parker
1963 - 1964 Arthur Leopold Frederick Harris
1964 - 1966 Walter James George Lacey
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.

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Related Newspaper Articles

"At the Birmingham Police Court yesterday, Messrs. Phillips and Mapplebeck were called upon to adminster justice in a rather peculiar case under the Sale of Intoxicants to Children Act of 1901. On December 20 Police-Constable Appleby saw Jennie Langham near her home in Great Charles Street carrying off an unsealed bottle three-quarters full of beer. As a consequence the mother, Elizabeth Langham; Joseph Harrison, of Russell Square; and Joseph Poole, landlord of the Chapel Tavern, Great Charles Street, were summoned. The mother said she sent her child with the bottle to the inn, because she thought that her husband would be there, and would buy the beer. She gave her daughter no money. The child on reaching the public-house found that her father had gone out for a shave, but she explained her mission to Harrison, a friend of the family, who purchased the ale and brought it out to her in the street. The Bench considered the mother and Harrison had been guilty of attempts to defeat the law, and imposed a fine of 5s. on each. On behalf of the publican, it was pointed out that he knew nothing of the transaction, and, accepting this version, the magistrates dismissed the summons against Poole."
"Birmingham Man Fined"
Birmingham Daily Gazette : December 31st 1903 Page 6

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