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Grendel

Grendel

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clint van damme said:
No one mentioned the Spittlemoor. Remember going in there on a Tuesday or Wednesday night after a youth game and rolling out at 4 in the morning.
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That was a gay pub wasn’t it?
 
Orca

Orca

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A great thread and thanks for the photo's @Houchens Head

One that I don't think has been mentioned is the Pitts Head. It's now the Gosford Arms. The original Gosford Arms was opposite. There's also the Rose and Woodbine on North Street which I frequented regularly in my youth.
 
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Tile Hill Phil

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Yes the silver sword used to be our meeting place before the game 78/79 era. After the game we would go home and get ready to go out again and meet in the Sword. Then the Smithfield,City Centre pub, then onto Cit Centre Nitespot. Everywhere you went on a Saturday we would bump into people that had been up the match a few hours earlier. Great times, city centre is an awful place to drink now. City of culture,hmm not sure about that one
 
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robofcov

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Spittlemoor was run at one time by same gaffer as the Broomfield Tavern which was my local , used the Spittlemoor few times before and after the game when he ran it , West Ham fans parked there coach opposite one game they headed back and come in the Spittlemoor for a beer after , Long story shorted got mistaken for Hammers fan some Cov fan clobbered me with one of his crutches oh did i laugh
Used to go to the Bear Inn High Street and the Peacock late 70s before a game.
Spencer club was another then a taxi ordered at 2.30pm, then finally the penny dropped just used to get in Strikers for 12.30 until 14.57pm
 
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oscillatewildly

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robofcov said:
Spittlemoor was run at one time by same gaffer as the Broomfield Tavern which was my local , used the Spittlemoor few times before and after the game when he ran it , West Ham fans parked there coach opposite one game they headed back and come in the Spittlemoor for a beer after , Long story shorted got mistaken for Hammers fan some Cov fan clobbered me with one of his crutches oh did i laugh
Used to go to the Bear Inn High Street and the Peacock late 70s before a game.
Spencer club was another then a taxi ordered at 2.30pm, then finally the penny dropped just used to get in Strikers for 12.30 until 14.57pm
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'The Bear Inn' - What did that become that I may be familiar with?
 
letsallsingtogether

letsallsingtogether

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We used to meet up at the Climax in the late 70s then we moved a little closer aand met up at the Dive, leave at 2.30 walk up gosford street get some chips then on to the game great times.
 
Sky Blue Harry H

Sky Blue Harry H

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Was talking to someone about ten years ago and they told me that a relative of theirs had been in The Brewer and Baker (that's the rough one by Southfields school iirc. Edit: yes it is - see below) and a woman had hit him in the head with a stiletto and damaged the fluid in the side of your head that keeps you balanced. Never been in there, and that didn't encourage me. Went in The Vauxhall pre-match a lot - fun versus Villa around the time they won the European Cup. and in there for the West Ham semi final (hairy!!)
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Magwitch

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Vauxhall Tavern headquarters of the original Legion, gaffer was Callaghan can’t remember his first name, I work with his son, Tom, tells me it was a very interesting place to be matchdats
 
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oscillatewildly

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Occasionally went in the Vauxhall Tavern on match days late 1980's. Gaffer then was former boxer Tony Riley. It's safe to say for someone who you thought would instil an air of authority, a tight ship it was not.
The smoky atmosphere was anything but Ogdens Nut Gone Flake.
 
tskezz

tskezz

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Great thread and photos. I grew up around there, street behind the Binley Oak, so id be in most of the pubs mentioned all the time as a kid, matchdays and normal. Like someone else said I do feel like I missed out on the options for pre match drinking of the Highfield road days, i was normally trying to get autographs, taking dust caps off the players Isuzu Troopers or trying to charge fans a quid to watch their car for the day. Out of the locals i think the only ones still going are the Foresters, Supporters Club, Humber and Gostford.
 
It’sabatch87

It’sabatch87

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oscillatewildly said:
Occasionally went in the Vauxhall Tavern on match days late 1980's. Gaffer then was former boxer Tony Riley. It's safe to say for someone who you thought would instil an air of authority, a tight ship it was not.
The smoky atmosphere was anything but Ogdens Nut Gone Flake.
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Remember being in there in late 89,We’d played Arsenal and a big mob of City in there watching the 1990 World Cup draw.
Then all outside across the grass and into the escort while launching empty bottles of bud first!!!🤣👍😁
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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oscillatewildly said:
Occasionally went in the Vauxhall Tavern on match days late 1980's. Gaffer then was former boxer Tony Riley. It's safe to say for someone who you thought would instil an air of authority, a tight ship it was not.
The smoky atmosphere was anything but Ogdens Nut Gone Flake.
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If he ever served you he couldn't add up the prices so he'd round it up or down to somewhere in the region of what it should be
 
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