Victorian Photo Album: The Old Farrier's Arms (Lichfield Street)

Old Farrier's Arms, c. 1880s or 1890s.
Held by Birmingham Archive - WK/B11/1264.

The Old Farrier's Arms was a public house on Lichfield Street, a street which was removed as part of the Corporation Street development, completed in 1903. The buildings were constructed in the eighteenth century, and the pub probably opened in the 1840s. 

Paper Remnants: Thomas Rooker's Trade Card (c. 1760)

Held at Birmingham Archive.
Box 10, No. 637.

A hand bill for Thos Rooker (Thomas Rooker) selling cocks on Lichfield Street. Rooker doesn't appear in any directories, which survive from 1767, and the rococo design of the bill suggests the late 1750s or very early 1760s, so the pencil-written date of c. 1760 seems right.