BRYCECLARE 0 Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Can anyone remember the old pubs in the meadows,the only ones standing are The Globe (ex Greyhound, God Bless Bob Evans) The Riverway and The Toll Bridge. The Plumtree still standing but being coverted into flats landlord Ken Hickling and wife Doreeen are still going in Skegness,Doreens brother Pete the milkman is still also going. The old Sherbrooke is still standing again turned into flats but now boarded up, old landlord was Fred Randal still going in Blackpool. The Queens is now a fireplace showroom, had some good times there with Sid Light and later Steve Webster (Now in Spain and plenty of people would to catch up with hin Im sure) The Spinney Jenny now the Police Station The Thre Bridges now empty Oh for a good pub back in the meadows Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Amazing. Are Doreen & Ken Hickling still going strong how lovely! What are they up to Bryce?? If you went in the Plumptre Arms you might know my lovely mum,she used to go in there a long time ago in the late 60's early 70's. And Bob & Jan Evans from The greyhound, I remember them too,now they really were mine hosts & knew how to present themselves & run a pub. My dad god bless him spent many an hour [or day] in there with his old mates. I remember the snug very well, as kids we used to peep through the doors we were fascinated by it all. I lived On Ryehill St as a young kid just up the St from the Greyhound. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BRYCECLARE 0 Posted October 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Yes they are in Skegness although Ken hasnt been too well, Still see their chidren occasionally Dave, Mick and Susan. Both Bob and Joan are dead went to their funerals. My father Geoff served in the Plumtre, New Bridge and Poets Corner bet 1960 and 1968 before he died Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 I just realised I think I do vaguely remember Ken Henley,was he very tall & thin?? I remember my mum mentioning a Ken & even a Bryce from way back in The Plumptre Arms. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 The Rifleman, Kirkewhite Street East, my old haunts, The Sir Richard Arkwright on Arkwright Street and the TBI at Trent Bridge. There was a pub on the corner of Bosworth Rd and Briar Street Clifton Inn??? Then just up Bosworth Rd was the "Stute" not technically a pub, but still a watering hole for me sometimes working at the pit. Across the road and a little up towards Trent Bridge on Arkwright Street was a Shippo's pub, can't recall it's name, and on the corner of Kirke-White Street and London Road was another pub thats name elludes me. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BRYCECLARE 0 Posted October 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 Yes Ken is still going and is still tall and thin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 If that's the case I think my mum would definately know you or at least remember you being in the Plumptre Arms. Are Doreen & Ken Hickling still in the pub trade? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 Bryce is an unmistakeble character from the Meadows. I remember him walking past my house on Wilford Crescent West, (The New Houses) even before I worked with him. If you lived in the meadows you will probably have seen him That would have been about 1972, or was it 1572? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 You have to explain Mick............... unmistakeable in which regard? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 A very tall smartly dressed guy in a mac walking past my house in the Meadows? I think he was on his way to the match Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 This is getting more interesting by the day Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 Interesting reading history of some postwar pubs in Nottingham https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1bbe27a859bdf1de8d294885c/files/Elain_s_Pub_Notes.pdf Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WilliamsonMeadows 18 Posted March 10, 2016 Report Share Posted March 10, 2016 I know there are a fair few pictures available online of the old pubs in Nottingham and the Meadows but I wonder if anyone has any pictures of the insides of the old Meadows pubs in the Sixties? Any help would be much appreciated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redbowen 131 Posted March 10, 2016 Report Share Posted March 10, 2016 It just shows that we know nothing about the future. 12#In the article Radfordred provided part of it is about the March Hare on Carlton road. The landlord turned down the Beatles because they were too dear at £25. I wonder what he thought years later? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 10, 2016 Report Share Posted March 10, 2016 Had a bolthole on Wilford Crescent West...in hiding,used to drink in a great boozer on Beuvale rd. Worthington on draught..like wine!! Sherbrooke was a second home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted March 10, 2016 Report Share Posted March 10, 2016 Sherwin Arms? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 10, 2016 Report Share Posted March 10, 2016 Just added a bit Den,it was the Sherbrooke? Great pint anyway!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted July 15, 2016 Report Share Posted July 15, 2016 The Plumtree still standing but being coverted into flats landlord Ken Hickling and wife Doreeen are still going in Skegness,Doreens brother Pete the milkman is still also going. Wonder if that's Doreen's brother Pete in his milk float? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted August 25, 2016 Report Share Posted August 25, 2016 Just another pub which I think not mentioned is the Crocus better know as the Crowee! I think it might have been on the end of Crocus Street. Most of my dad's family came from the Meadow's my granddad worked at Clifton Pit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted August 25, 2016 Report Share Posted August 25, 2016 One of our neighbours in the '60s was named Don Beechall, worked in the Magna Carta for years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted August 25, 2016 Report Share Posted August 25, 2016 #19 mary1947, do you mean the Crocus Inn on Goodhead St? #18 The Plumptre or 'Plummy' must be one of the few Medders pubs I never set foot in, even though it was only a couple of hundred yards away from me. The float in the picture is the fruit and veg cart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 25, 2016 Report Share Posted August 25, 2016 I do recall Bryce and Adrian Clare....Cremourn and The Queens. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 25, 2016 Report Share Posted August 25, 2016 The Crocus Inn, described by PTP as being on Pegg Terrace / Goodhead Street. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted August 25, 2016 Report Share Posted August 25, 2016 Thanks Cliff Ton that's the pub I can remember. At the time I was too young to go in the pub myself just remember mum and dad going there on a Saturday night. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 I well remember the Porters Arms in the early 60's, you could hear the trains rumbling overhead. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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