In 1974, Davenports Brewery Ltd became the collective trading name in place of Davenports CB Ltd and John Davenport and Sons Brewery Ltd. The Bulls Head on Bishopsgate Street (Image: Nick Wilkinson / BirminghamLive) The following year the company won a 'Beer Hawking' legal case at the Victoria Law Courts. Highgate Brewery began brewing dark beers in 1899 and Baron John Davenport launched a 'Beer at Home' service in 1904. The business began to be centralised around Bath Row after his son, also called Robert, moved there in 1852.įifteen years later, in 1867, John Davenport and Sons was registered at the address as "Maltsters, Hop Merchants, and makers of Pale and Brown Malt for brewing bitter ales and porter". History of DavenportsĪccording to the National Archives, in 1829 Robert Davenport was a brewer at 120 Brearley St, Hockley. The pub's floor slopes downhill by about a foot when you walk towards the Tennant Street end. The company had tried to preserve the original features while using a combination of beer-mat wallpaper and old photographs to offer a fresh look at the same time. When it reopened to the public at noon on Thursday, Decemit was Davenports brewery's first pub opening for 30 years. The floor of the main bar at The Bulls Head sloped down by about a foot in the Tennant Street direction - pictured here a week before it reopened in December, 2016 (Image: Nick Wilkinson / BirminghamLive)
"We are all excited by the opportunity the Jekyll & Hyde presents and look forward to sharing our plans in due course.” He added: “Davenports has made multiple acquisitions over the last few years, continuing with their expansion plans despite what has been a testing time for the hospitality industry.
Ian Robinson, finance director at the pub and brewing company, said: “We are all very sad to see the iconic public house sold, but this will help the business expand - as just weeks ago the board also agreed the acquisition of the popular Jekyll & Hyde on Steel House Lane, located just around the corner from the Victoria Law Courts, where Davenports fought and won a famous Beer Hawking case in 1905.”
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October 30, 2017: The Bulls Head was turned into The Garrison Tavern for the series four premiere of Peaky Blinders (Image: Darren Quinton / BirminghamLive) Statement from 'sad' Davenports Breweryĭavenports Brewery said it had "taken the decision to sell" The Bulls Head pub on Bishopsgate Street in Birmingham following "an offer by an investment fund" that it "did not have permission to name."
Read more: £1 million city centre pub restoration has a 100-year-old surprise in the cellarĪlthough The Bulls Head was never used for filming Peaky Blinders, it appeared as a backdrop whenever the series had a premiere at the Cineworld 12-screen multiplex on the corner of Broad Street where the series one first episode launch was held in 2013
It was renamed for the night after the original Small Heath pub The Garrison which closed almost a decade ago.īut after two years of Covid-19 restrictions, the Grade II-listed boozer at the corner of Bishopsgate Street and Tennant Street has now been sold off - even though Davenports is looking to expand its portfolio and has just acquired The Jekyll & Hyde (formerly The Queens Head) on Steelhouse Lane. The Bulls Head off Broad Street was only reopened in December 2016 and turned into ' The Garrison Tavern' for a Peaky Blinders' premiere in October 2017. One of Birmingham's historic terracotta pubs has been sold to an unnamed 'investment fund' in a surprise deal - just five years after being transformed by Davenports.
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