Gosford Street - Coventry (2 Viewers)

[Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon]

I went for a meal at Habibi a few days back and when walking up towards the old Colin Campbell I had a 'memory' of a pub that I thought used to be somewhere along that street. Can anyone tell me if i'm making things up or was there a building (presumably now demolished) somewhere along the stretch that housed a pub? I would presume it was around the area that the national tyres building is in, before the Morris building but not so far down as being Far Gosford Street. I would be thinking that this building stood in the 90's/2000's. Either that or was there a pub in one of the buildings that is still there?

 

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[andy86]

There was a pub there, it got demolished to make way for the university multi story car park.

Can’t remember the name, but i’m sure it had a picture of Che Guevara on the wall..?

 

[Nick]

There was a pub there, it got demolished to make way for the university multi story car park.

Can’t remember the name, but i’m sure it had a picture of Che Guevara on the wall..?

Oh yeah I remember that now because of the wall

 

[clint van damme]

Would that have been the Peacock years ago?
Think it may have had some sort of South American theme after that.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Would that have been the Peacock years ago?
Think it may have had some sort of South American theme after that.

Yes it was called The Peacock. Next to the Social security building, now University site. It was a tough boozer, spit and sawdust !

 

[fernandopartridge]

I went for a meal at Habibi a few days back and when walking up towards the old Colin Campbell I had a 'memory' of a pub that I thought used to be somewhere along that street. Can anyone tell me if i'm making things up or was there a building (presumably now demolished) somewhere along the stretch that housed a pub? I would presume it was around the area that the national tyres building is in, before the Morris building but not so far down as being Far Gosford Street. I would be thinking that this building stood in the 90's/2000's. Either that or was there a pub in one of the buildings that is still there?

Yes, the Peacock was where the entrance to the university multi-storey car park is now. It was demolished about 10 years ago.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Caramba it was called when it had the mural

 

[hill83]

Caramba it was called when it had the mural

Ay

 

[Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon]

Yes, the Peacock was where the entrance to the university multi-storey car park is now. It was demolished about 10 years ago.

Thank you! I was starting to think i'd somehow imagined it ever existing as i couldn't find anything online. I moved away from Cov around the same time and only recently came back which might be why its all a bit hazy.

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

My auntie and uncle ran the peacock in the late 70s early 80s

 

[bringbackrattles]

My auntie and uncle ran the peacock in the late 70s early 80s

Went in there many times. Lively pub with some "characters " !

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

There was a pub there, it got demolished to make way for the university multi story car park.

Can’t remember the name, but i’m sure it had a picture of Che Guevara on the wall..?

Nah that's Jezza's Love Shack

 

[martcov]

My auntie and uncle ran the peacock in the late 70s early 80s

Was it run by an Irish family? ( yours ? ) I think it was around 75 when I was there 1 or 2 times.

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

Was it run by an Irish family? ( yours ? ) I think it was around 75 when I was there 1 or 2 times.

They are an Irish family but I think they had the pub a bit later
Their names were Bridie and Robert

 

[hill83]

Are we talking about this place? You can view old images on google street view. This was in 2008. Used to go in there on the way home from Scholars sometimes when I didn't want the night to end. Absolute mayhem.

 

[martcov]

They are an Irish family but I think they had the pub a bit later
Their names were Bridie and Robert

I cannot remember exactly when I was there, but I think they had a tricolour on the wall. We used to on the way to somewhere else. We used to meet at the Hare and Hounds.. I think.. memory going now.

 

[hill83]

Found it.

A History of the Pubs of Coventry

Time for another couple of hours stuck in this website.

 

[bringbackrattles]

The Peacock was a well known pub in the 60's and 70's. Next door was the social security offices. Also on Monday mornings if you worked on the buildings, you'd get picked up outside the pub, and many signed on !

 

[RedSalmon]

Criminal that they could pull a building like that down.

 

[RedSalmon]

Are we talking about this place? You can view old images on google street view. This was in 2008. Used to go in there on the way home from Scholars sometimes when I didn't want the night to end. Absolute mayhem.

Did Bones go there too?

 

[hill83]

Criminal that they could pull a building like that down.

Even more annoying is that there is nothing there at all now. Just grass.

 

[hill83]

Did Bones go there too?

Ha ha. Yep.

 

[RedSalmon]

Hope and Anchor in Whitefriars Street and the Greyhound in Much Park Street. Two boozers that got pulled down in the name of progress.

Fucking heart breaking!!!

 

[King of the Lesbians]

Jeez. I remember the Peacock. Had many, many lock-ins at that place.
Juke box crammed full of Pogues, Dubliners, Housemartins etc.
Was working at the poly at the time in r-block (everything was known by block back in the day) and the Peacock was also know as p-block due to the amount of lunchtime 'meetings' held there.
Owner was like a stocky bobby ball iirc.

 

[Nick]

What's Gringos now?

Remember going in there on an all dayer once and was entertained by undoing the lids on the salt and watching the students have to eat salty burgers.

 

[rondog1973]

Jeez. I remember the Peacock. Had many, many lock-ins at that place.
Juke box crammed full of Pogues, Dubliners, Housemartins etc.
Was working at the poly at the time in r-block (everything was known by block back in the day) and the Peacock was also know as p-block due to the amount of lunchtime 'meetings' held there.
Owner was like a stocky bobby ball iirc.

Sounds like the guy who had the Hand & Heart in the mid 90's

 

[hill83]

What's Gringos now?

Remember going in there on an all dayer once and was entertained by undoing the lids on the salt and watching the students have to eat salty burgers.

A student bar called Quids In. Have a guess how much it is to get in?
Funnily enough I went there a few months back. We got in on my mates student card. 10 chas & daves in a row on the jukebox and a few snakebites.

 

[Nick]

A student bar called Quids In. Have a guess how much it is to get in?
Funnily enough I went there a few months back. We got in on my mates student card. 10 chas & daves in a row on the jukebox and a few snakebites.

If you had put Aswad on it would have been a better shout but you can't argue with the snakebites!

Is that kebab shop next door or one down still there?

 

[fernandopartridge]

If you had put Aswad on it would have been a better shout but you can't argue with the snakebites!

Is that kebab shop next door or one down still there?

No, it's a Chinese / noodle bar now.

 

[Si80]

Hope and Anchor in Whitefriars Street and the Greyhound in Much Park Street. Two boozers that got pulled down in the name of progress.

Fucking heart breaking!!!

My office is now on the bit of land where the Greyhound was. Rumour has it that the landlord got wind that the site was being looked at for development and so bought the pub off whoever owned it at the time (previous owner oblivious to development inbound).

New owner made a mint when we bought it off them.

 

[riyadhfanclub]

Landlord was John Bradley, wife eve, lovely bacon sarnie after our Sunday game. Usually a win of course.

 

[riyadhfanclub]

Sounds like the guy who had the Hand & Heart in the mid 90's

 

[riyadhfanclub]

that's right, he went onto the Gosford Arms in St Margarets Rd. Not the other Gosford (new Gosford), thats really the Pitts Head.

 

[clint van damme]

Landlord was John Bradley, wife eve, lovely bacon sarnie after our Sunday game. Usually a win of course.

haha! Played against them more than once and know a few of them as well.

 

[riyadhfanclub]

The Peacock was a well known pub in the 60's and 70's. Next door was the social security offices. Also on Monday mornings if you worked on the buildings, you'd get picked up outside the pub, and many signed on !

Hey WIngy, you didn't live in Emscote Rd did you?