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Wood Street, KIDDERMINSTER, DY11 6UF

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.

This former carpet factory is currently a department store.

The end house in Peel Street (no. 88) is still displaying a large faded advertisement for M & B Ales Wines Spirits. M & B stands for Mitchells & Butlers, who originally were a very well-known West Midlands brewery. The brewery closed some years ago and today the company is involved in various leisure interests, including owning large chains of pubs. These include the Harvester chain, and for whom other companies supply the beers. The significance of the M & B advert is that it almost certainly indicates that no. 88 Peel Street was at one time an off-licence, probably many years ago. Less likely perhaps, it may have been a pub but looks rather too small for this. On the end wall there is clear indication that another advert has either been removed or worn away. The window on this wall is also of a type you would associate with a shop rather than a private residence. Although the M & B advert on the front is very weathered, it is just possible to see that it was in fact painted over an earlier advert. All that can be made out of this, for certain, are the words "Mitchells" and "Ales", both in capital letters.

An attractive bread shop on a street corner among rows of housing near Kidderminster Treatment Centre.