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Pubs are disappearing all the time but one that I remember well was the Buck and Dog, Warren St Stockport. Always a top pint of Boddies (as it was) and the last time I was there a 7 foot woman with a bald green headed dwarf who was standing on the bar!
The pub was sadly demolished to make way for an extension of the Merseyway shopping precinct - it's Barclays Bank now!
That pub must have been almost in the River Mersey; the river flows somewhere underneath Barclays.
They turned a couple of pubs in Rochdale into funeral parlours though some slightly unkind people said they were half-way there already :rolleyes:
Boddies always did that to me as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by Welsh Harrier
And those pubs that are still there but have been turned into boutique bistro thingies. Like the Wensleydale Heifer in West Witton and the King's Head at Thirlspot. Both dreadfully over-priced and not surprisingly empty the last time I dropped in for a nostalgic pint.
And there was the Gale Inn in Littleborough of course - now a Chinese so the race had to move up the road to the Summitt Inn. Well done Allan G for keeping the race going!
I remember the Punch Bowl just outside Brough on the A66, looking very sorry now it is.
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Originally Posted by Welsh Harrier
Remember it very well indeed - a good pint!
Plus I went to a Wedding Bash there too....upstairs & downstairs...cracking Do:wink:...
And guess what the Lass' whose Big Day it was worked for Barclays Bank:D...
WH - there must be book in the making here, having just returned from Peddling the Outer Hebs & more (where community & society is still so strong), it's really very sad to see how many classic boozers going to the wall.....
How much did you get for them?
...Not really a fell runner's pub, but anyone here remember the Bellu Vue opposite Bradford City's ground? I had many a good old pre-match session in there as a youngster, rolling out of there and into the ground at five minutes to kick-off!
It's a muslim community centre now, which is kind of amusing given the sort of pub it was.
hmmm.
Taff Vale
Pig and Whistle
The Greyhound
The Bluebell
The Albert.
All classic Cardiff centre pubs all now long gong. At least The Old Arcade still stands, still serving excellent Brains SA!
Too many to mention, or even recall, from my younger days in W. Sussex. No 'fell runner' pubs (not in Sussex in the 60/70s!!) but all classic country drinking pubs - now long gone or turned into Gastropubs, which better called restuarants that will serve you a pint of beer under sufference.
It's actually worse than that, the Bluebell premises still exist but converted to some nouveau modern drinking establishment with a trendy name, Goat major or somesuch. The Bluebell as we knew it is long gone, now just a faded memory:boohoo::thunbdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
I dont have much to add here - being a non drinker and all (as you all know!) but we had a pub in leeds called 'the pub with no name' and it became a shop but before it was a shop it was one of the few places in town you could watch bands and I remember seeing folk like 'zoot and the roots' in the late 80's (also went to see them in the astoria which is now a small block of flats!)
but on the whole I dontthink we have lost too many pubs round these parts.....
Opposite where the Buck and Dog stood in Stockport was the Warren Bulkeley, a rambling old Wilson's pub which was knocked down in the same redevelopment that put paid to the B & D. I did see Climax Chicago Blues Band there in an upstairs concert room in 1969!
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Originally Posted by Daleside
You're lucky - on the Western side of the Pennines it 's been a different matter:
Manchester:
Tommy Ducks - demolished illegally on a Sunday morning (remember the knickers on the ceiling?)
The Grapes, Deansgate - an absolute classic
The Coach and Horses, opposite Picadilly station, the first proper real ale free house I ever came across
and then there was that underground pub on Market Street (I've forgotton the name) where you could get 2 or 3 of the old Scottish and Newcastle real ales including Younger's No 1.
Stockport:
Apart from the ones I've already mentioned a whole swathe were knocked down to make way for the M60. I was also sad to see the Stanley Arms on Newbridge Lane become a carpet shop - it had a very enterprising landlord.
Was that the Duchess of York DS - the place where many future stars played their first gigs in Leeds - incl Oasis and Nirvana -like you say now a shop!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Daleside
Luckily most that I know of that have closed in my 15 years in Leeds have been those I'd not have wished to frequent - the Becketts in Meanwood springs to mind - now flats!!
Anyone remember 'The Staff of Life' in Cliviger Gorge, with the whole in the ceiling. A real pub.
I do - but a whole what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr H Tool
A whole lot of nothing, where the......did the W come from!
I think its reopening soon with the same Landlord as ten or so years ago (when it was good!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr H Tool
WOW We'll have to arrange a date to visit it, let me know and I will buy you a whole pint :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fnstein