Pub's now and then. (10 Viewers)

[WestEndAgro]

There were, the one I'm talking about was on Gulson Rd, not the one in Keresley

Remember it well, it's a shop now.

 

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[TewkesburySkyBlue]

Green Man, Hall Green Rd, in the early seventies.
Haven't been in a pub for three years now.

Used to be my local when I lived on Manor House estate back in the day

 

[TewkesburySkyBlue]

This makes me think, how many ofnyouused to do cov games then off to Brandon for the Stock cars/ speedway?

I remember doing it regularly as a kid, fucking loved it

Did it all the time .
Come on you Bees about time they were back at Brandon.
Very happy days

 

[Kneeza]

Used to be my local when I lived on Manor House estate back in the day

We lived backing onto the Green Man, on Pearson Avenue. Could see the back garden of the pub from mum & Dad's bedroom window. All gone now. Just a block of flats

 

[Kneeza]

Did it all the time .
Come on you Bees about time they were back at Brandon.
Very happy days

Yep. Me too. Either Cov or City, then Brandon after a chippy tea from Wolston, calling in at my cousin's house over the road from there (the old Post Office and Bakery).

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

Late March to the end of the season and from the beginning of the next season it would be either a walk from Ernesford Grange or Highfield Road to Brandon, the smell as you walked through the bus and car park to the pits entrance was intoxicating.
Ferguson and Wallace to Ole Olsen and Mitch Shirra...what a way to spend your best days! Oh and a pit stop at the Binley Oak or the Roseycombe.

 

[Kneeza]

Late March to the end of the season and from the beginning of the next season it would be either a walk from Ernesford Grange or Highfield Road to Brandon, the smell as you walked through the bus and car park to the pits entrance was intoxicating.
Ferguson and Wallace to Ole Olsen and Mitch Shirra...what a way to spend your best days! Oh and a pit stop at the Binley Oak or the Roseycombe.

Brandon Oak?
Mitch Shirra once lent me some tools and a solderless nipple(!) when I broke my Triumph 500's front brake cable outside the farm he was lodging at just outside Southam when he first came over from Oz. He had a bit of a rep as being arrogant. I'd disagree based on that.

 

[It’sabatch87]

Surprised no one has mentioned strikers at the ground, always a guy in there selling GMK fanzine.
Used to get packed in both bars.

 

[andrew.roberts]

Does anybody remember Hasty Humphries from the novice races at the Bees. It was worth the entrance fee just to watch him. He was probably the worst would-be speedway rider in the history of the sport but fair play to him he never stopped trying.

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[fernandopartridge]

Used to be my local when I lived on Manor House estate back in the day

Manor House? Is that the bit of Bell Green around Almond Tree Ave etc? I've never heard that name before you see

 

[Saddlebrains]

Yep. Me too. Either Cov or City, then Brandon after a chippy tea from Wolston, calling in at my cousin's house over the road from there (the old Post Office and Bakery).

Wolston Chippy was the best in the midlands late 90s early 00s il die on that hill

 

[clint van damme]

Wolston Chippy was the best in the midlands late 90s early 00s il die on that hill

Or of chronic heart disease

 

[Cov kid 55]

This advert for pubs (not a specific pub, just pubs in general) by Bobby Moore lives in my head rent free

Is that Martin Peters with him?

 

[Bad Boy]

Manor House? Is that the bit of Bell Green around Almond Tree Ave etc? I've never heard that name before you see

Used to be a designated Coventry Corporation bus route to Manor House, the bus service number unfortunately escapes me.

 

[Northants Sky Blue]

The Hastings was a right Khazi but usually passed through on match day after popping in a selection of Gosford St boozers (Hand and Heart the fave)

Porky Pigs as well- I can feel my arteries clogging just typing it

 

[Kneeza]

Wolston Chippy was the best in the midlands late 90s early 00s il die on that hill

It was cracking. My cousin's son married the daughter of the owners too (Andrie). Never got free chips though

 

[SkyblueDad]

Green Man, Hall Green Rd, in the early seventies.
Haven't been in a pub for three years now.

You could almost build a house using blokes out of the Green Man on Friday/Saturdays it used to be full of Irish construction chaps a lot from the guild house over the road, brickies, carpenters, plumbers, plasterers whatever all top skilled blokes….and cheap.

 

[Kneeza]

Used to be a designated Coventry Corporation bus route to Manor House, the bus service number unfortunately escapes me.

20a. It was a deviation down Windmill Rd off the 20 Longford and Bedworth route. Terminus was by the side of the Manor Guildhouse by Aldermans Green Road a few yards up from the Green Man. I used to use it regularly, or the 21 Lentons Lane/Aldermans Green opposite the GM, whichever turned up first.

 

[Kneeza]

You could almost build a house using blokes out of the Green Man on Friday/Saturdays it used to be full of Irish construction chaps a lot from the guild house over the road, brickies, carpenters, plumbers, plasterers whatever all top skilled blokes….and cheap.

All true! Including my dad, an absolutely top-notch welder.

 

[clint van damme]

Let’s see how many pubs we remember within walking distance of HR,I reckon there’s about twenty I’ll start with the Freemasons, the Old Red Horse and Ivy Cottage.

A pity someone never made a list earlier in the thread!

 

[rondog1973]

It's funny thinking back to all of the pubs around Highfield Rd (as close to walk to as say the Wheatsheaf now) that you might have drank in on match day:

Sky Blue Tavern / Mercer's
Old Ball
Hastings
Red Horse
Stoke Con Club
Binley Oak
Brewer and Baker
Freehold (when did that close?)
Vauxhall Tavern (before my time)
Gosford Arms
Hertford Arms
Hand & Heart
Beer Engine
Hare & Hounds
Peacock

Stoke ex on Clay Lane too.

 

[Astute]

Used to be my local when I lived on Manor House estate back in the day

Same here although it was the Manor Farm Estate. IIRC the block of flats was called Manor House.

 

[LastGarrison]

Hope and Anchor is one I’m surprised hasn’t been mentioned.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Same here although it was the Manor Farm Estate. IIRC the block of flats was called Manor House.

The block on Manor Farm (1 - 1.5 miles away from the area described) was called John something house, then was used as student accommodation known as Caradoc Hall. Not sure what it is called now.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Hope and Anchor is one I’m surprised hasn’t been mentioned.

Outside of the radius I'd made in my head

 

[SkyblueDad]

Was talking with a mate and we totting up pubs from the Swanswell to the Rose & Woodbine in North Street in a circle around HR and we reckon there’s around 23 plus we think half a dozen clubs, all packed on a match day and most the boozers run ironically by no nonsense Irish chaps. We reckon there are just two still open

 

[WestEndAgro]

Surprised no one has mentioned strikers at the ground, always a guy in there selling GMK fanzine.
Used to get packed in both bars.

With a certain George Curtis serving behind the bar, like you mentioned it was absolutely rammed.

 

[Saddlebrains]

Was talking with a mate and we totting up pubs from the Swanswell to the Rose & Woodbine in North Street in a circle around HR and we reckon there’s around 23 plus we think half a dozen clubs, all packed on a match day and most the boozers run ironically by no nonsense Irish chaps. We reckon there are just two still open

Sounds about right.

The whole area around HR has declined rapidly. All the pubs closed, fly tipping, litter, Swan Lane etc has basically become a dumping ground for Eastern European immigrants. Its an absolute shithole round there now, the council let it rot when HR went as they have no need to tart it up for any visitors to the city.

Used to be quite nice as you got down Ball Hill towards the crown and Stoke Park but now even around there is becoming a shithole. Shame as i grew up off Marlborough road in Stoke and I loved it round there, great people but 20 years later and its a cesspit

 

[Major Tom]

The Ivy Cottage in Hillfields..great Guinness

 

[It’sabatch87]

Remember the old red horse that day we beat Utd 3-2, stools flying about inside.
Some gobby Utd fan from down south got his teeth rearranged.

 

[Ashdown]

All this talk of pre match pubs makes me wonder, in these days of the CBS and the pubs around CV6……how many drinks do people partake in before games these days and what time do they start on a Saturday 3 pm ?! We are normally in our favourite watering hole for 12 and I usually have 4 pints but managed to sneak in a 5th v Hull.

 

[Torquay Sky Blue]

All this talk of pre match pubs makes me wonder, in these days of the CBS and the pubs around CV6……how many drinks do people partake in before games these days and what time do they start on a Saturday 3 pm ?! We are normally in our favourite watering hole for 12 and I usually have 4 pints but managed to sneak in a 5th v Hull.

These days, 2 pre game, 1 half time and 3 after. Then home with a curry and missus moaning at me for falling asleep 9 ish. Text book Saturday

 

[oscillatewildly]

Anyone remember the Lucas Club?

 

[Brylowes]

Then - Stoke Conservative Club (member when 18)
Now - Old Shephard

 

[SkyblueDad]

Anyone remember the Lucas Club?

I’d forgot that club think it might have been by Lucas Aerospace some where behind the Brewer & Baker