Swanswell Rd/Gospel lane

[Alberta]

There is a medical centre on the corner of Swansell road/Gospel lane can you remember the name of the pub that ot replaced.Thanks ,Alberta

 

[gingerjon]

any idea of the year

 

[Alberta]

Can't have been many years ago John,my daughter in law is 37 and she remembers it but can't recall the name. Thanks.

 

[Stitcher]

Could it have been THE MOONRAKER

 

[gingerjon]

Gospel Oak public in Gospel Lane, but no Swanswell Road. Could not find Swanswell Road in any Directory

 

[Phil]

You are obviously thinking of The Moonraker as suggested by Stitcher on the corner of Brook Lane / Gospel Lane. Not a pub I would have used especially just before it closed down. I never saw so great a collection of ladders on the roofs of vans parked outside.

Is that a medical centre that replaced it?. It looks more like apartments to me when driving past. I was surprised when it sprang up there has been no attempt to match it in with its surroundings. I think the medical centre is on the other corner.

Phil

 

[Stitcher]

Hello John, as you go down Gospel Lane towards olton there was a pub on the right about half a mile below the Gospel Oak. Since I lived in the area houses have been built at the rear and I think Swanswell Rd is just before Brook Lane.

 

[Phil]

Stitcher

Is that Swanswell Rd at the other end of those awful apartment buildings that replaced the Moonraker?. As you say there are a lot of new houses back there now, I never knew the name until now.

Phil

 

[Alberta]

Thanks,you have jogged Traceys memory is was the Moonraker.

 

[robert]

There is also a "club" of Gospel lane down Langley Hall Lane. Not one of the best.

 

[Stitcher]

I used to have the occasional drink in the Moonraker about 50 years ago, it was a new and decent pub in those days. One of the 'Applejacks' lived there and his parents were the licensees.

 

[Phil]

As I had to pick the wife up from Hall Green today, and as I had already promised Astoness that I would make a detour past the Avenue to take a couple of pics the next time I was in the vicinity I also took a couple of this location as its only up the road.

Its quite right, The Swanswell medical centre is on the junction of Swanswell Rd and Gospel Lane and opposite is the site of the old Moonraker. What you might call hot off the press.

Phil

 

[Mike M]

There was a pub called the moonraker, adjacent to the medical centre, but the moonraker was pulled down and there are flats there now
Regards Mike M