Inn Sign of the Bellefield Inn at Winson Green

Inn Sign of the Bellefield Inn on Winson Street at Winson Green in Birmingham 2002 [Photograph taken by the author on January 24th, 2002]

Inn Sign of the Bellefield Inn on Winson Street in Birmingham 2002

I took this photograph on January 24th, 2002, when the Bellefield Inn was still trading. Sadly, however, the pub's days were numbered. The inn sign illustration shows some patrons of the Bellefield Inn being served with home-brewed ale from the brewery of Samuel White, the beers being produced to the rear of the house. The sign commemorates the Bellefield Estate that formed the basis of a housing development around this locale. In the 19th century Bellefield House was occupied by the retired merchant Edward Rabone. He had earlier lived at Smethwick Hall, the family home until its sale in the late 1850s to Joseph Gillott, the Birmingham steel-pen manufacturer. The house had become known as Rabone Hall and the land is commemorated by Rabone Lane. The hall was acquired by the hydraulic engineers Tangye Bros. & Price who demolished the house and erected the Cornwall Works. Edward Rabone had continued the business founded by his two uncles and traded from Broad Street. He died, aged 82, at Bellefield House in 1865.

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