This is history - now
Posted:
Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:44 amby Midland Red
Drove past The Court House public house on Wednesday - well, I would have done had it still been there
So recently we've lost The Peacock, The Caludon, The Hope & Anchor, The Greyhound, The Court House
Saved but converted - The Fletch, The Binley Oak
Still awaiting work - The Rose & Woodbine
Saved for the World Cup - The Rocket, The Beer Engine
Maybe I've missed some others
Where will it all end?
Re: This is history - now
Posted:
Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:54 amby pollyanna
So sad that all these places are closing down!!
A good news story from my neck of the woods - a local village pub was abandoned by the landlord - and the villagers clubbed together and bought it - here's the story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/10272951.stm
Re: This is history - now
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Fri Oct 22, 2010 4:20 pmby dutchman
The Malt Shovel (circa 1808) in Spon End has been closed for a while but there are signs that the exterior is about to be renovated at least.
In the old part of Chapelfields there are quite a few pubs which closed early in the 20th Century and have been succesfully used as domestic homes ever since.
Re: This is history - now
Posted:
Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:55 pmby Midland Red
Another one under threat is the Poachers Retreat
Film of the opening can be viewed at
http://www.macearchive.org/Media.html?Title=2082MRed
Re: This is history - now
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Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:19 pmby dutchman
Good find MR
John Ashby's reference book doesn't cover the outlying parts of Coventry so I had no idea it was previously called "The Standard". It wouldn't surprise me if its customers carried on calling it by that name long after it was officially changed.
Re: This is history - now
Posted:
Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:50 amby Midland Red
dutchman wrote:Good find MR
John Ashby's reference book doesn't cover the outlying parts of Coventry so I had no idea it was previously called "The Standard". It wouldn't surprise me if its customers carried on calling it by that name long after it was officially changed.
Oops! Got my pubs mixed up, between the Standard and the Herald - my post now amended above!
Sorry
MR
Re: This is history - now
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Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:40 pmby dutchman
Okay, thanks MR
Hockley Lane. Name changed from The Standard to the Poachers Arms in 1983. It's a shame someone thought it necessary to erase the link with the motor industry.
Re: This is history - now
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Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:53 pmby dutchman
An application has been made to build a 42-bed care home on the site of the Herald.
On a positive note there were signs of reoccupation at the Butts Retreat when I last passed it.