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Cabin Priory Circus.

Phil

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
I have a memory of a cabin being erected in Priory Circus in the late 50's or early 60's when Priory Circus and Old Square were being revamped the first time.

This cabin was erected by the Milk Marketing Board and for a short time you were able to get free glasses of milk there and after that short period was over they started charging it didn't stay open long after that.

This is where my memory gets a little hazy, does anybody remember was this the same cabin later taken over by a brewery and became the Cabin Public House, and if my memory serves me at all, was it later refurbished to look like this photo. Which I think was taken whilst it was being demolished (well it looks like it) Anybody have any memories?

Phil
 
Phil, I have been trying to find out where or what The Cabin was for a while now. In an old 1959 diary of mine I mention several times going to the Cabin, but can't for the life of my remember where or what it was. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been a milk bar that I went to :dft005: Does anyone know where the pub was?

Judy
 
Judy

It was on Priory Circus opposite that big furniture store that used to be on the corner of Corporation St (was it Maple's or something like that). Diagonally opposite Lewis's.

If you can picture that then the Cabin was on the other side of Priory Queensway at the end of what is now known as Priory Walk.

Perhaps it was a milk bar earlier than 59 then.

Phil
 
Thank you Phil. I still can't remember it, but it is nice to know where it was, and I seemed to go there quite often according to my diary !!! Funny how you can't sometimes remember places - I have another in my diary which you might know - The Fiesta. Does that ring any bells?
 
motorman-mike, yes there was a pub named The Cabin a ramshackle, asbestos sheet & timber "building", pushed (demolished) some years ago, replaced by a brick building named "The Mazeppa" now renamed "The Radley Arms" located near the roundabout Sheldon Heath/The Radleys/Church Rd/Brays Rd. Len.
 
Judy

There was a Cabin Public House at 50-52 Union Passage prior to the wooden structure on the Priory Queensway. Perhaps that was the Cabin that you used.

Nobody remembers the milk bar then?

I have had a quick look for the Fiesta, the name rings a bell, what year would it be the last time you used it.

Phil
 
Hi Phil

Well now bells are starting to ring!! Yes, I think Union Passage sounds more like it and am pretty sure now that that's The Cabin public house that I remember. The wooden structure on Priory Queensway didn't look like it at all ( in fact I'm not sure whether the name 'Priory Queensway' was around in 1959, but I stand to be corrected on that) but Union Passage - yes Phil, that's got to be it.
Thanks a million:)

Now as to the Fiesta, well that was around late 1958/early 1959 and it must have been in the town centre, as I did most of my socialising with my friends in town. If you can find that as well, you are a star and my hero!

Judy
 
Was the Fiesta a pub or a Coffee Bar Judy? There was a La Fiesta Coffee Bar in Summer Row in the late 1950's early 60's.
 
Hi Mike

I just can't remember what or where the Fiesta was. I think it was probably in the town centre, and it sounds like a coffee bar. I don't think it was in Summer Row. I mention going to the Forum cinema and then on to the Fiesta, but then I also talk about going to Studio 1 Jazz Club which was in Aston and then on to the Fiesta. So, I really have no idea what it was, and I would love to know. I am annoyed with myself that I have forgotten.

Judy
 
nice pic froth...much better than the newspaper cutting one i posted last year so i will save it if i may...and yes those shops are still intact underground...or so i have been told...

lyn
 
The "Cabin" in Union Passage,had a large round copper covered bar,the only other copper top that I remember was, the "Beehive" in Bull St.:)
 
Thank goodness someone else remembers it.Sometimes I think these places are a figment of me imagination.:rolleyes:How about the a place we knew as the "Corner Cuboard" somwhere off Bull St.anyone remember that???
 
Hi Phil

I believe the building that was known as the Cabin is still standing, although it has had several name changes over the years. I think it was known as `B2` a few years ago and the last few times I have passed the building (last year) it was known as `The Swinging Sporran'.
 
I remember meeting a few of my work mates there a couple of times when we worked at Heath Mill Lane
 
Ray Barrett said:
Thank goodness someone else remembers it.Sometimes I think these places are a figment of me imagination.:rolleyes:How about the a place we knew as the "Corner Cuboard" somwhere off Bull St.anyone remember that???
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Ray thats a new one on me,and i drank all round the town

Mossy
 
Mossy,
How about the "The Gem" - "The Lamp" and "The Falstaff" the last one, was a gravity pull.:)
 
Glad someone mentioned the Falstaff...my brother Harvey always ended up there with his mates when he came home on leave.....and even though l never went in ...., after leaving Lewis basement record dept l would always go by looking for him ...at the time l was'nt old enough to go in ....now Ray could you tell me exactly where it was situated...l know it was down an alley somewhere below Lewis's ....l'm having a senior moment and my mind has gone blank, maybe someone can help me out....Brenda
 
:shocked:
Frothblower said:
Remember this. They should have turned these shops into time capsules, they must be still there:)
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WOW!!!!!!,what a shocker.That's me & my girlfriend,now my wife,sitting on that bench in the foreground .Must be around 1970/1971.you never know whose around taking photos do ya!!!!
 
Sorry Brenda,
I don't remember either:rolleyes:,it must have been very close to Kings Hall Market,because I do recall going there for jellied eels after leaving the pub.Dunnes hats was on the corner of the street,that the Faltstaff was in...I think.:rolleyes:
 
Mossy,
I's not suprising you don't remember some of the pubs,things happened so fast in the 1960s.
Driving through the city one morning going to work,I passed a pub in Dale End,on the way home from work that evening,the pub had been demolished,and rebuilt and was now a shoe shop.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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