The Brunswick Haymarket

[Hillpig 10]

Thanks for the building date .

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By the way you must mean it was good for a pint of Queens.

 

What realy upsets me is todays frontage to the building, just another example of how the whole area has been allowed to fall into disrepair.

 

Any info on ownership etc?

 

Tennants Brewery made Queens ale and owned the Brunswick. They sold out to Whitbreads about 1964/5. The brewery was on Ladys Bridge opposite the back of the courts. At the time the strongest beer in the world was Gold Label which was originally brewed there. The Head Brewer was Harold Burkinshaw.

[Jim Hardie 527]

Thanks for the building date .

.

By the way you must mean it was good for a pint of Queens.

 

What realy upsets me is todays frontage to the building, just another example of how the whole area has been allowed to fall into disrepair.

 

Any info on ownership etc?

 

That's what I said cuttsie!

[cuttsie 1,090]

That's what I said cuttsie!

A guy on another Sheffield on line forum has posted some good photo's of the Brunswick.

P.S. I read your post as though you could still get a pint of Queens in the Brunswick.

Can always dream I suppose.

Edited March 20, 2013 by cuttsie

[extaxman 10]

My mate used to play the drums in the Brunswick. He used to back Billy Malkin (a kind of Ray Charles singer). Couldn't afford a pint of Queens was about 8p then used to go on the normal bitter about 7p.

[retep 68]

My mate used to play the drums in the Brunswick. He used to back Billy Malkin (a kind of Ray Charles singer). Couldn't afford a pint of Queens was about 8p then used to go on the normal bitter about 7p.

 

Was that Billy Malkin the market trader.

[extaxman 10]

Don't know what Billy Malkin was. Con Aherne moved to the Millhouses but he will be retired now.

[Hillpig 10]

Don't know what Billy Malkin was. Con Aherne moved to the Millhouses but he will be retired now.

 

Con died many years ago, he would have been over 100 now.

[Owlsfan99 10]

My Grandfather, Christopher Lacey, was a furnace bricklayer for Steel Peach and Tozer from the 30's through to the 60's. He was a master bricklayer throwing perfect arches by sight.

He used to get off the bus having done a morning shift in Tinsley on his way home, via the Brunswick, where he would have 5 or 6 pints to replace the fluids. He was very complimentary about Con Aherne who used to lend all the locals money and was much loved (no shock there then).

Con's beautiful daughters all did extremely well for themselves.

[susie1 10]

In the 1960s, the landlord was someone called Tummon. His younger daughter, Yvonne, went to the same school as me.

Later, in the early 70s, I used to go in there each Thursday lunchtime with my dad. He loved doing nostalgic pub crawls round town. As a young single man, he did a lot of his socialising in the city centre (he had been due to meet friends in the Marples the night it was bombed, but stayed at home instead with his sister and nieces. He didn't marry til 1945, when he was 40; my mum 26). Consequently, he knew all the town pubs and many licensees; he always lamented the decline of the Brunswick; apparently, in the late 30s/early 40s, it was a really lively place with an affluent clientele and lots of music, but by the 70s, it was pretty seedy. Other pubs he loved were the Dog and Partridge, the Museum, the Sportsman? (long gone in Leopold St) and one which faced the entrance to John Lewis's carpark (Yorkshireman?), the Athol etc.

It's so sad that traditional pubs hardly exist now.

[Organgrinder 1,946]

On 25/10/2005 at 19:55, extaxman said:

I used to go in the Brunwick about 2 or 3 times a week during the early 60's because my mate used to play the drums there.

 

The pianist / singer was the late great Billy Malkin who sang all the Ray Charles numbers but better than him. Surely somebody else remembers him - once heard, never forgotten.

I realise that this is a very old post  but,  If you're still around,  are you sure the pianist  / singer was not Bill Hogan,  rather than "Malkin"  and was it Bobby Warner on the drums ?

[Fred G 16]

Billy did play/sing in the Brunswick back then. I knew Billy when he had a flat in Gell Street I had a flat in the same house.😊

[Organgrinder 1,946]

22 minutes ago, Fred G said:

Billy did play/sing in the Brunswick back then. I knew Billy when he had a flat in Gell Street I had a flat in the same house.😊

I knocked around with Bill around 1963 to 1966 or later.   He was lodging at the Burgoyne Arms,  Langsett Rd, when I knew him.

Brilliant pianist and very nice singer too. His group was the  "Bill Hogan Trio with Barry & Barbara",    later to become  "The Conways".

I spent very many hours around the pubs & Clubs with him in those years.