Fiddle and Bone will play new tunes

A Birmingham canal side ‘jazz pub’, closed for ten years, is to get new life as gastro pub and new centre for canal services.

Roundhouse and Fiddle and BoneRenovation work has started on the Fiddle & Bone Pub and adjacent Roundhouse site in Ladywood, on the main line of the BCN in central Birmingham.  The pub closed ten years ago but has now been taken over by established Birmingham boatyard Sherborne Wharf.

The pub and Roundhouse arches will be sympathetically restored and refurbished and the exterior canal wall lowered with railings at the current height to open up the view from the canalside. There will be a new building with boatyard services, including diesel, gas, coal, pump-out and elsan disposal:  Showers, laundry and a chandlery will be houses in the arches of the Roundhouse.

When this has been completed and the Fiddle & Bone pub reopened for food and drink – hopefully in early 2015 – Sherborne Wharf will move also move their offices and existing passenger boat business here from the nearby Oozells Street Loop. They will however retain their private moorings on the Loop. Their existing site is likely to be redeveloped by the Canal & River Trust (CRT).

The National Trust and CRT are working together to explore future uses of the 1870s horseshoe-shaped Grade II* listed Roundhouse. They are consulting with others, such as Birmingham City Council, on the possibility of redeveloping the building as an urban outdoor hub from which activities can be based and more about Birmingham’s heritage can be discovered.

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