The Golden Eagle
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General information
Status	Demolished
Type	Public house
Location	Hill Street,Birmingham,England
Coordinates	52°28′43″N1°54′09″W / 52.47860°N 1.90247°W /52.47860; -1.90247
Opening	1930s
Demolished	1980s
Client	Holt Brewery Company

The Golden Eagle was a 1930spublic house inBirmingham, England, which became known as a venue for live music.

The pub stood on Hill Street, in Birmingham City Centre, betweenVictoria Square and the western end ofNew Street Station.

It closed in January 1984 and was demolished soon afterwards.

The building, commissioned by theHolt Brewery Company (and later operated by their successors,Ansells Brewery), inart deco style^[1] was clad in black stone, with a painted metalbas relief sculpture of a stylisedgolden eagle, by sculptorWilliam Bloye, over the main entrance.

It was erected in the 1930s on the site of an earlier pub of the same name.^[2]

It was at the Golden Eagle, in 1963, thatSpencer Davis met brothersSteve (then aged 14 and still at school^[3]) andMuff Winwood, performing there as the Muffy Wood Jazz Band, resulting in them formingthe Spencer Davis Group.^[4] The Spencer Davis Group made their debut at the Eagle, and subsequently had a Monday-night residency here.^[5]

Other bands who played there before going on to bigger things includeIron Maiden^[6] andU2.^[6][7]

For a year from June 1973, the pub was home to afolk club,^[8] run by resident Birmingham folk/rock band Scotch Mist.

From 1976 to 1979, aclub night, "Shoop Shoop", was held on Thursdays.^[9][10] Shoop Shoop was run by Mike Horseman and Pete King, the latter of whom went on to manageSteel Pulse.^[11]

In August 2018, Birmingham-based Two Towers brewery launched a "Golden Eagle" ruby ale, in their "Gone but Not Forgotten" range, to commemorate the pub.^[12]

The site of the pub subsequently became a car park.^[6] In November 2025, city council officers recommended that plans for a 16-storey tower block comprising student accommodation to be built in the site be approved by councillors.^[13]

• 'Birmingham Music Archive' page
• 'Closed Pubs' page (includes picture)
• 'Keith Jones Music' page with a picture showing the Bloye carving

• Pubs in Birmingham, West Midlands
• Music in Birmingham, West Midlands
• Art Deco architecture in England
• Former pubs in England
• Buildings and structures completed in the 1930s
• Demolished buildings and structures in the West Midlands (county)
• Buildings and structures demolished in 1984

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