RE: THE BEEHIVE SOHO HILL HOCKLEY - 4

#46 by astoness , Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:28 pm

how strange that 2 beehive pubs caught fire....i think i must have taken the last photos of the inside of this pub...photos are on this thread..took me life in me hands taking them as it already had a fire and was almost falling down and this was 2 years back

#47 by Slow Jo , Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:34 pm

If my memory is right ,my oldest sister's first job was at dennison's on a press ,use to pop in the outdoor for a packet of crisp's in her dinner time.

#48 by astoness , Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:39 pm

hi jo dennisons is next door to the pub isnt it

#49 by Slow Jo , Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:44 pm

Hi lyn ,yes your right it was a very busy factory in it's day ,don't know what happens there now ,employed a lot of women worker's.

#50 by astoness , Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:59 pm

jo i dont know either what goes on in the old dennison factory but it is being used..

#51 by mikejee , Thu Apr 21, 2016 11:08 pm

Shame about the Beehive, though from Lyns photos I doubt if there was ever a chance of it re-opening. I remember many happy hours spent there when some friends ran it in the late 1960s. No surprise it "happened" to catch fire. I think any pub owned by one the the pub companies can consider itself lucky if it does not spontaneously combust

#52 by Voltman , Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:11 am

Plans for redevelopment were rejected.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/loc...gain-over-47053

#53 by Slow Jo , Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:25 pm

They need to do something with that eye sore ,can't be left as it is.

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