Smithylass returns 6 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Can someone tell me the name change when it became a fun pub...thanks in advance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Are we talking of the pub where McDonalds is now ,on Valley Road. ?? If so the year it was done up to fun pub was 1981 not long before Charles and Di got married . I took a girl I was seeing at the time in there (Her name was Dianna thats how I remember) Got another tale about that place too. Mick might help out here , I recall that some entrapaneurs took over (After it had been closed down and boarded up ) reconnected the electricity, and started selling their own booze , it went on for ages until they were caught!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,629 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 I can remember there being a fun fair in the car park but can't remember if it was before or after the goose fair Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 see here http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?sh...amp;#entry54490 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Quite true re the guys who "unofficially" ran it, one still local to basford, Remember the old shoulder when Harry Blackburn ran it in 1960's then later played a gig there and did a few disco's it was still the SoM night of "The Big Storm" when Southern England devasted, complete SoM chimney stack finished up in the cellar while pub was open! re the wakes, car park was overflow from main fair on Billy Bacon's (field, with altered route of river leen and day brook still there opposite Cowley Street) Can anyone remember the either RSPCA or PDSA mobile vets that parked up one morning a week on SoM car park? might have been an old ambulance? I know I took a puppy there to be put down about 1960 (Ahh) The SoM was originally on corner of Fairfax Street which ran from Radford Rd to Nottingham Rd, such all demolished when Valley Rd built can't remember it as before I was born! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Can anyone remember the either RSPCA or PDSA mobile vets that parked up one morning a week on SoM car park? might have been an old ambulance? PDSA vehicle was also a weekly regular in the Cocked Hat car park on Broxtowe Lane... Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jan kononowicz 8 Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Can someone tell me the name change when it became a fun pub...thanks in advance. I think it became the Rocket as a fun pub, in 1982 because I went in to wet my baby's head,it might have changed it name again by the time I got chucked out. Jan the soulman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogfox 0 Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 I think it was called the Windmill and I had some good nights in the place. The pub trade is dying on its feet and it's sad to see. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 yes was the windmill when first reopened after closed as SOM Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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