Compo 10,326 Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 Does anyone remember Eric and Hilda, Landlord/lady of the Druids Tavern on High Street Arnold back in the 1960s? I wonder when they retired and what became of them afterwards? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 The Druids was never a pub a I used very much having only visited a couple of times in the late seventies. You'll probably know that the pub has been demolished? That was around a couple of years ago and what remains is a weed-strewn patch of wasteland. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 I never liked the Kimberley/Hansons beer in there. it was supposedly demolished to make way for a new police station. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 I think that's the reason a lot of people wouldn't go there Den. An acquired taste in what was a solidly Home Brewery suburb. I did hear that the opening hours for the current police station nearby were to be curtailed, not sure if that happened. Also there was talk of a new health centre on High Street somewhere or other I think. I reckon it got shelved. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted October 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 I am of the opinion that all three of the major Nottingham breweries (plus Mansfield Ales) were beers of character; especially Shippo's. I have brewed my own beer for many years but never matched the flavour of a good pint of Shipstone's - or should I say 'honest p*ss' (anag). A mate used to work in Saudi and when he arrived at Heathrow for leave he used to take the first train to Nottingham for a pint of Shippo's in the Wheatsheaf on Ilkeston Road near Canning Circus. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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