Guest Posted October 30, 2016 Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 I had some good nights in there Suzy...I think it became a venue for strip shows in later years...yuk!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kimberley 9 Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 On 15/10/2008 at 11:46 PM, zab said: 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. Been trying my hardest to think of that pubs name which is why I'm on this thread. Used to go in there on Saturdays after going in Way Ahead record shop to buy vinyl. Cheers! Can anyone tell me the name of the pub on the left of Market Street as you went up the road? I used to go in there when on a Saturday all dayer with my old drinking buddy in my late teens. The pub vanished when the Pearsons site behind it and down onto Angel Row was redeveloped at the very end of the 1980's. I recall inside of it was a well, could've been a fake one as it had a wire ledge in it and lighting and a skeleton on the ledge. People used to get up and dance on a long bar (not where the drinks were served but another bar across the middle of the pub) I was fortunate enough to be raised in Kimberley and when last orders was called in the Nelson and Railway, we could still get drinks in the Cricketers Rest, Queens Head and the Lord Clyde...didn't bother with The Gate as the landlord was horrible. It was great living there with being a brewing town, Friday afternoons when the draymen knocked off work was always fun in the pubs especially the Nelly & Clyde. I left Notts in 2000 and since then Greene King bought out the brewery and closed it.i just cannot imagine the place now. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kimberley 9 Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 On 23/03/2009 at 6:59 PM, Fynger said: Cant count the times we all turned up at the Sal to find upstairs had been decked with tables with posh tablecloths on em to be told 'you not allowed in no more'..its now a restaurant....then had to wait 2 weeks till it reverted back cos no one went in. Seriously? Upstairs in the Sal was on my Saturday pub crawl back in the late eighties and also we would go in there on Friday before heading to Rock City. What's the place like now? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kimberley 9 Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 On 16/10/2008 at 5:44 PM, .... said: I DO remember The Flying Horse having a reputation as a place where gay people met, Bazzer. I drank there in the late seventies but I think it gained that reputation before that. Quite agree about the 'so what', though. I used to go in the News House and my mother used to say it was a 'gay pub', never saw evidence of it myself and don't recall the FH being gay either. Iirc Gatsbys was a gay pub Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 hour ago, Kimberley said: Can anyone tell me the name of the pub on the left of Market Street as you went up the road? Robin Hood Tavern? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 Indeed. Site of the old Classic cinema. Next door to Selectadisc. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 hour ago, Kimberley said: I used to go in there when on a Saturday all dayer with my old drinking buddy in my late teens. Seems quite strange now that pubs only opened between 12 & 2pm - 6pm to 10.30pm which was only fully brought in, in 2005! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kimberley 9 Posted February 11, 2017 Report Share Posted February 11, 2017 On 18/01/2017 at 11:04 AM, radfordred said: Seems quite strange now that pubs only opened between 12 & 2pm - 6pm to 10.30pm which was only fully brought in, in 2005! Back when pubs had regulated licensed opening hours, you just knew every pub was open every dinner time and every night whereas since pubs were allowed all day drinking, many pubs close on what were the traditional quiet days at the beginning of a week. Nowadays, especially in rural areas, you have to check their opening days and hours. I don't know what the county licensing hours were but Kimberley was 10:30-14:30 and 19:00-23:00 every day except Sunday when it was 12:00-15:00 (11:30 using the back door of the Queen's) and 19:00-22:30. I remember seeing two particular wasters at the door of the Cricketers Rest actually knocking on the door if not opened on the dot of 19:00, I remember the couple had children (no idea where as they were in the Cricks from opening til closing 7 nights a week) and they hadn't worked a day in their lives (and that was seemingly rare in Kimbo back in 1986/1987). I did love the drinking culture though, I knew everyone from school/working in the 'village'. The Clyde was open until all hours, it wasn't unusual after a Friday or Saturday night lock in, to exit the side door at 2 or 3am...then I turned 18 and gave up drinking. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kimberley 9 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 re #357 Bless you TBI & Cliff Ton for that. I asked lots of ppl and they couldn't even remb the place but I was convinced I wasn't mistaken. Thanks for the photie too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,377 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 In the mid sixties I had blonde hair, peaches 'n' cream complexion, quite slim and couldn't grow facial hair if you paid me. I can assure you the FH had more than it's fair share of those that bat for the other side. Even so I had some great nights in there before moving on to the Bell, County Hotel, Corner Pin, Yates........ the rest got a bit hazy after that. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 #359 In 1968 there was a group of people who, by invitation, were in on after hours drinking at the Willoughby In Wollaton. I guess this happened in a lot of places. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted May 9, 2017 Report Share Posted May 9, 2017 I have just sat for ten minuets going though this topic and I see that there are two pubs not mentioned!! Now I won't tell you the name of them but they used to face each other on Lower Parliament street and both had very similar names. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted May 9, 2017 Report Share Posted May 9, 2017 I'd guess probably these two. The newer one is still there and still operating under this name. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted May 9, 2017 Report Share Posted May 9, 2017 Correct!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted May 9, 2017 Report Share Posted May 9, 2017 Was it the Three Horse Shoes? Home Ale house near the Albert Hall, same side. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted May 9, 2017 Report Share Posted May 9, 2017 I reckon that's the first time the place has ever been mentioned on Nottstalgia. Albert Hall just round the corner on the right of the photo (beyond Hett & Smith). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted May 9, 2017 Report Share Posted May 9, 2017 Thanks Cliff Ton, not quite sure where the memory came from except I do believe Sign of Four was somewhere there. Or in later years petrol pumps in the gap where the Bartons sign is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 #367. Back in the 1960s the landlord of The Three Horse Shoes was an ex-RAF Transport Command pilot. His nickname was 'Lucky' but I cannot recall his real name. I went to see him after an article had appeared in the NEP about him. He was the pilot of the York aircraft that took Churchill to Yalta for the famous conference. He showed me his logbook with the record of the flight. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted October 29, 2017 Report Share Posted October 29, 2017 Does anyone recall the name of the coffee bar which was above the Three Tuns on the corner of Wasrser Gate and Fletcher Gate, or was it just called Three Tuns coffee bar? I think it has been mentioned here sometime in the past but I can't come across mention of it. My SiL remembers it as being somewhat Turkish in appearance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted October 29, 2017 Report Share Posted October 29, 2017 Okay folks, got it now, The Bohemian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Singhy1955 0 Posted November 16, 2017 Report Share Posted November 16, 2017 I used drink at welbeck inn used near vic centre and the corner pin now they are shops .Dog &bear ,The flying horse, QE , The only one still there in the Meadows,at same place has had few names in past , Still on Queens Bridge Road and corner of the Street I was brought up on The Grove which now has the name Vat & Fiddle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woody 549 Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 When I was doing my apprenticeship in the sixties I was at Bell street in the old Meadows area. We had a Shipstones pub next door to us, the name of which escapes me, but the younger lads preferred to go on to Arkwright Street and go to the New Bridge which was Home Ales. Must admit the beer was a bit kinder on the system. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 Looking at an old map I can't see any pubs on Bell Street......Where exactly ? This is the New Bridge Inn on Arkwright Street looking out from Orange Street (and on this photo it was Shippos rather than Home Ales). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 Bell street ran between Orange st and Kirkby st, can't remember any pubs on there. The Plumtree was nearby. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 3 hours ago, woody said: When I was doing my apprenticeship in the sixties I was at Bell street in the old Meadows area. We had a Shipstones pub next door to us, the name of which escapes me, but the younger lads preferred to go on to Arkwright Street and go to the New Bridge which was Home Ales. Must admit the beer was a bit kinder on the system. The Shippos pub at the end of Bell St was the Belvoir. Kiddiers Engineering next door but Burroughs across the street. The New Bridge Inn was always Shipstones of course. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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