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The Brookhill Tavern was situated at 484 Alum Rock Road.

From Historic England:

The Brookhill Tavern, an ‘improved’ public house of 1927-28, designed by George Bernars Cox of Harrison and Cox, is listed at Grade II. the building is an accomplished exercise in careful planning to maximise the impact of the site on which it stands and to combine the features of a prominent road house and a local pub. This interest extends to the detailed finish and to the carved detail on the exterior. The Brookhill Tavern is a notable example of the Birmingham type of ‘reformed’ public house, which was designed to appeal to families. It was built by the notable brewers, Michells and Butlers, who did much to promote this type of public house. The Alum Rock area of Birmingham expanded considerably in the 1920s. The Sutton Estate, immediately to the west of the Brookhill Tavern, was started in 1915 as a charitable community and further housing was subsequently added in clustered developments along Alum Rock Road. The Brookhill Tavern continued to operate as a public house from its completion in 1928 until its sale in 2012. A former off-premises sales counter was adapted to form an off-licence shop in the 1950s or 1960s, and the bay window in the assembly room was altered at roughly the same time to a larger bay. The building has, otherwise, been little altered externally. Within, the bar counters and bar backs to the service areas have been removed.

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