The Pelican Statue Had Its Own PUB?! 🦜🍺 Factory Workers' Local + 1993 Footage | Lost Pubs Birmingham

🏭🍺 THE PELICAN PUB SERVED THE FAMOUS PELICAN WORKS FACTORY - BOTH ARE FADING AWAY Contact me: [email protected] 🍺 Buy me a Beer at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/joyfuladvep The Pelican on Barr Street, Hockley - an Ansells pub named after the iconic Pelican Works factory with its famous pelican statue on the roof. 📍 LOCATION: Barr Street corner with Hockley Street, Hockley, Birmingham B18 THE PELICAN WORKS CONNECTION: The pub took its name from The Pelican Works - the massive electroplating factory at 45 Great Hampton Street: 🏭 Built: Around 1868 for Thomas Wilkinson & Sons 🏛️ Design: Grade II listed Victorian building, Italian palazzo style 🦜 Famous For: Large pelican statue on the roof (company logo - symbol of sacrifice and purity) 🏗️ Size: Spanned from Great Hampton Street to Barr Street along Hockley Street 👷 Workers: Hundreds employed in electroplating THE PUB'S ROLE: The Pelican pub was situated on Barr Street at the rear of the factory site - it was THE workers' pub. 🍺 Brewery: Ansells (owned "The Pelican" as early as 1915) 👔 Primary customers: Pelican Works factory employees 📅 Active: Through the 1950s and into the 1990s 🎯 Purpose: Where factory workers went after shifts This wasn't just a random pub - it existed specifically to serve that factory. Hundreds of workers doing hard electroplating work all day needed somewhere to go. The Pelican was that place. 📹 1993 FOOTAGE: We found archive footage showing The Pelican in its final years as a pub CURRENT STATUS (Feb 2026): 🏢 The Pub: Building survives, converted to mobile phone shop 🏭 The Factory: Added to Buildings at Risk Register 2020 due to neglect and partial collapses 🦜 The Statue: Still on the roof, but building deteriorating THE TRAGIC IRONY: The pub that served the factory workers is now a phone shop. The factory that gave the pub its name is crumbling. The connection between them - workers walking from factory to pub for nearly a century - just history. Both parts of this story are fading away. THERE WERE MULTIPLE "PELICAN" PUBS: Confusingly, Ansells owned several Pelican pubs in Birmingham: The Pelican, Great King Street/Unett Street (earlier, called Pilgrim's Inn, lost 1950s) The Pelican, Barr Street (THIS ONE - the factory workers' pub) The Barr Street Pelican is the one directly connected to the Pelican Works factory. 📹 Archive footage credit: (    • Pelican Pub Barr St Hockley Birmingham Vie...   Ray Wilkes ) 🏭 The Pelican Works factory is Grade II listed and AT RISK 💬 Remember The Pelican pub? Worked at Pelican Works? Share memories! 📧 Got old photos of pub or factory? Email? 🔔 Subscribe for more Birmingham industrial heritage and lost pubs! #ThePelican, #PelicanWorks, #BarrStreet, #Hockley, #Birmingham, #LostPubs, #ArchiveFootage, #1993, #FactoryPub, #Ansells, #IndustrialHeritage, #GradeIIListed, #BuildingsAtRisk, #Electroplating, #WorkersPub, #JewelleryQuarter, #GreatHamptonStreet, #VictorianFactory, #PelicanStatue, #B18, #BirminghamHistory, #IndustrialBirmingham, #FactoryWorkers, #MobilePhoneShop, #HeritageAtRisk, #ThomasWilkinson, #ItalianPalazzo, #BrumHistory, #VictorianBirmingham,