Beefsteak 305 Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 That was on the top floor Ash and iw was called............................................................bugger I've gone and forgetten!!!!!!!!! (strange name for a pub) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 The New Vic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,592 Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Is that the one that had a western (cowboy) theme? Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Carol Dickens 3 Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 anyone remember the disco in the basement late sixties early seventies used to have some good nights in there a good dj but carnt remember his name but good place for dancing. you're talking about the old miltons head of course. there was a dj called woody. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brownrhino 0 Posted November 9, 2011 Report Share Posted November 9, 2011 Hi wasn't there a little "piano bar" on Milton Street downstairs near where the current gap shop is? steve freyne Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Gershwins? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 The News House on St James Street was for many years my favourite pub in town, now totally ruined in the interest of profit and an Australian theme. Also, not a regular but I always enjoyed a pint at the Crystal Palace. I seem to remember that the News house once housed the Nottingham traditional Music Club. (NTMC). Is the NTMC still running in another place? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Hi wasn't there a little "piano bar" on Milton Street downstairs near where the current gap shop is? steve freyne Steve Freyne - sister called Anna perchance? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 There's a photo of the Sawyers Arms and also a photo of the old Broad Marsh Remind me, please - where is/was the Sawyers Arms? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 My most common weekend evening out in the early 1970s when I lived on Arundel Street, near Canning Circus, was: Start at Hand and Heart (built into the sandstone), Derby Road; Next The Sir John Borlace Warren (commonly known as The Borlace) Canning Circus; then on to another little bar just around the corner whose name I have now rather inconveniently unremembered - doh!; finally the Portland Arms just off Alfreton Road. Weekdays drinking was usually confined to The Wheatsheaf on Ilkeston Road, which my pal and I called (affectionately) the Colour Bar, because we were often the only two non-coloureds that used it. Had many great evenings in that pub :o) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Sawyers Arms was squeezed between/underneath Woolworths near the Broad Marsh entrance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 It rings a bell but I'm blowed if I can place it. I'll take a look at Picture the Past and see if there's a photo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 I'd forgotten that there was a pub between the 2 entrances to Woollies. I remember now that the shop was horseshoe shaped inside. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 I'd forgotten that there was a pub between the 2 entrances to Woollies I'm not old enough to have gone there, but you could obviously stand at the entrance to the Sawyer's and look down the road at the Tower, which has also been mentioned on these pages Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 The tower , of course, being "The Walter Fountain" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 The Tower I was referring to was the pub on the north side of Broad Marsh just before the letter B on the map. Mentioned and pictured on this thread http://nottstalgia.c...h=1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 There must have been loads of pubs that vanished in the demolition craze of the 1960's when likes of Meadows,St Ann's, Basford (Old and New) and Hyson Green were decimated? two I recall (and went in underage) were The Plough & Harrow and The Windsor Castle but where were they? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 The Walter Fountain was I think on the island at the "Y" junction on that map, I recall such, think erected by some businessman as memorial to his soldier son? have mentioned elsewhere in tram era days a pole came off one, hit the memorial and knocked off a lump of stone which fell on a pedestrian killing him! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 "The Walter Fountain" was erected in Memory of John Walter a one time editor of the "Times" newspaper by his son a Nottingham M.P.in 1866 at a cost of £1,000. It Was a trolley bus pole which caused the stone to be knocked off the fountain in1939,the man killed was aged 73 & named William Bradbury. The fountain was demolished in 1950 in a road widening scheme. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 Well I wasn't far off? lol, got the story from me mam! demolished in 1950? would have said later as would have been only only 4 then but def recall seeing it, mind you I do remember a few things before I started school inc 1950 being start of new decade and some sort of flypast (seemed to be 100's of planes) that was tribute/memorial of ww2? but years after end of it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 According to the BBC the Walter fountain was demolished in 1958. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 Information from "Nottingham Then" picture Number 5 Published by The Nottingham Evening Post 1988 @ £6.95 ISBN 0-948946-26-1 http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NTGM000839&pos=71&action=zoom&id=52285 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 There are at least 10 other pics of the fountain in picture the past all with same text saying it was pulled down "in the 1950's" however I don't think we should go on picture the past text too much? (see the last few posts in the topic "Where,s This" as they have Clifton Boulevard photo titled as Aspley Lane) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 1, 2012 Report Share Posted May 1, 2012 I don't arf miss the old fashioned pub. These days they are all pseudo-old fashioned, with posh interiors pretending to be exactly what they were before they were "Done up".....done-in more like. mutter, grumble, moan, bitch, gripe. "A pint and a cheese'n onion cob please." "Eh? The menu is on the table sir" ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2012 Tend to agree with this. Went in a local village pub after a walk last week that I've been going in for several decades. It's under reasonably new ownership: 'Will you be dining with us tonight?' I notice the pub is billed on it's Facebook page as a 'Restaurant/Cafe Bar'. What a load of tosh! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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