{"id":1306,"date":"2016-01-16T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2022-11-01T23:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T23:22:49","slug":"the-eagle-and-tun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"[Closed] The Eagle and Tun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digbeth, Birmingham:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m12!1m3!1d2429.8624061632786!2d-1.8861508114247874!3d52.48162694997284!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1453033578770\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><ins datetime=\"2016-01-17T12:24:04+00:00\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iambirmingham.co.uk\/2020\/10\/08\/horrific-vandalism-say-brummies-ub40-pub-gobbled-hs2-digbeth\/\">Now closed and demolished<\/a>. Bastards.<\/p>\n<p>Right next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1008\">The Woodman<\/a>, another fine old Victorian pub, and <a href=\"http:\/\/thewoodmanbirmingham.co.uk\/our-story\/\">another James &#038; Lister lea building for Ansells<\/a>. Empty and derelict since 2008, it was once a very sad sight, isolated while development went on around it, and with only local listing, the future didn&#8217;t look good- as recently as 2012, it looked like <a href=\"http:\/\/digbeth.org\/save-our-pubs\/\">both would be flattened<\/a>, along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/worries-that-three-historic-birmingham-pubs-181093\">with The Fox and Grapes<\/a>. As we&#8217;ve seen, The Woodman was saved first, and as we walked past on our last visit, we noticed the Eagle &#038; Tun was about to re-open, and it now has.<\/p>\n<p>It is well known for the UB40 Connection- the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zXt56MB-3vc\">video for Red Red Wine<\/a> was shot there, as was the cover for the first Best of UB40 album, as the studios for DEP International were just around the corner in Andover St.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the pub itself? Outside is <a href=\"http:\/\/pubsthenandnow.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/11\/032-eagle-tun-digbeth-1998-to-2011-rip.html\">typical Brum terracotta<\/a>. Inside is less salubrious than The Woodman, and a work-in-progress, clearly, but the atmosphere was pleasant (if cold!), the barman was very friendly, and the drinks cheap (and decent enough too, even if the HPA ran out before I got a pint). The pub is playing on the UB40 connection, with that being the choice of music. There&#8217;s still the stunning tiles at one end, and the feel of a proper Brum pub too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digbeth, Birmingham: Now closed and demolished. Bastards. Right next to The Woodman, another fine old Victorian pub, and another James &#038; Lister lea building for Ansells. Empty and derelict since 2008, it was once a very sad sight, isolated while development went on around it, and with only local listing, the future didn&#8217;t look good- &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Closed] The Eagle and Tun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,318],"tags":[5,201,279,432,79,23],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-closed","tag-ale","tag-birmingham","tag-closed","tag-demolished","tag-digbeth","tag-james-and-lister-lea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}