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Park Street, KIDDERMINSTER, DY11 6TW

This former carpet factory is currently a department store.

Sometimes known as The Sportsman Inn, though that word "Inn" doesn't appear on the building's exterior. This is another of Kidderminster's hidden back street pubs, although this one has the advantage of a sizeable car park. The housing to the immediate right of the pub is new.

Although called The Unity Bar this is in fact quite a large pub, most of whose frontage is onto Plimsoll Street. It is sometimes referred to as The Unity Inn. The entrance from the outside looks almost like a corner shop. Kidderminster still has quite a few pubs tucked away in its many streets of terraced housing, although not nearly as many as it once did. Other interesting survivors include Image, Image, Image, Image,Imageand Image There are one or two others too, as well as the many town centre pubs and those on main roads and on large estates.

Most of the pub's frontage is onto Plimsoll Street Image

The three storey building on the left is a former yarn store that was part of the largely demolished Park Wharf Works. The site dates back to the early 1800s and was to become the main Axminster weaving unit for Richard Smith and the Carpet Manufacturing Company. In the 1950s this self contained site took in dyed yarns and produced finished Axminster carpets. Production ceased by 1983 when much of the site was demolished to make way for the ring road. On the right are the remains of some of the north light roofed weaving sheds now used by Jewson.