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The Talbot, Hill Top, West Bromwich, Staffordshire

In researching my family tree I have discovered that my 3 x great grandmother drowned in the Birmingham canal in 1851. Her newspaper inquest report states that she had been living at The Talbot, Hill Top at the time of her death. Further research led to me find that it was her son Charles Davis who was the licensee of The Talbot at this period of time which would explain why she had been living there. All that I know of The Talbot pub is it’s name & that it was in the Hill Top area & I would very much like to learn more about it such as where exactly it was situated & any stories connected to it. I would especially love to see any old photo’s of the pub should anyone know of any please.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

Thanks moving this to BC history pubs section

Have you tried looking at the addresses close to the Talbot on the census - also the description of the enumeration district. Might give you an idea of where it was.

Have you tried this site, you'll have to trawl through the images, but there are some good ones there:

http://www.west-bromwich-photos.co.uk/

snoopysue wrote:Have you tried looking at the addresses close to the Talbot on the census - also the description of the enumeration district. Might give you an idea of where it was.

Being a newbie I know how to check out the census returns by a person's name but not by address & I didn't know about there being an enumeration district description. Thank you, I shall look into this.

snoopysue wrote:Have you tried this site, you'll have to trawl through the images, but there are some good ones there:

http://www.west-bromwich-photos.co.uk/

I did come across this site on the net & have looked through all of the photo's. Sadly, there were none of the pubs that I am interested in but it was still good to look through none the less.

I think my previous post disappeared but - try this site :

http://www.longpull.co.uk/

Quite a few free downloads on there now

Maggie

If you can't find them on the downloads - I have the disks and will look for you

Maggie

Antie Em wrote:If you can't find them on the downloads - I have the disks and will look for you

Maggie

Many thanks.

Janny wrote:

snoopysue wrote:Have you tried looking at the addresses close to the Talbot on the census - also the description of the enumeration district. Might give you an idea of where it was.

Being a newbie I know how to check out the census returns by a person's name but not by address & I didn't know about there being an enumeration district description. Thank you, I shall look into this.

If you can access the images, it's usually the first entry on ancestry, it'll be page one, once you've got the image of the correct census.
The description of the area covered by that part of the census is usually fairly detailed, but note that not all parts of the same street are necessarily covered by the same enumeration district.
If you have Find My Past, it's possible to search by address, although even with the correct address, it doesn't always get a hit. Sometimes the entries are listed by house number, sometimes by schedule number, and sometimes both! I can't see a description of the enumeration district on FMP, it doesn't seem to be included in the image sets.

Thank you for trying to help me.

Why not try Smethwick Archives? this is prob dif pub but you may find your pub there? http://blackcountryhistory.org/collecti ... 3_2_1_904/ they are always very helpful -you prob need to visit them http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/info/200253/ ... es_service
Regards RF

rockyfowler wrote:Why not try Smethwick Archives? this is prob dif pub but you may find your pub there? http://blackcountryhistory.org/collecti ... 3_2_1_904/ they are always very helpful -you prob need to visit them http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/info/200253/ ... es_service
Regards RF

Many thanks for the advice ~ I shall certainly give it a try.