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Yates’s Wine Lodge Central Restaurant Corporation Street

Can only remember going to Yates in Corporation Street on one occasion I was in my late teens and was on a pub crawl with a mate who was home from a tour in the merchant navy.
We had lunch at a pub near The Bull Ring then went to The Odeon to see The Vikings. We were politely asked to leave after a few hours for accompanying the Viking who played the ramshorn when the boat sailed up the fjord.
I think this was when we called into Yates and went up in that lift to either the 3rd or 5th floor.
My mate Terry was a real Patter Merchant and from memory we joined some middle aged ladies and despite a couple of Red Velvets ( a pint of Guinness enhanced by adding a glass of port , no wonder I'm in this state at 78! ) we did leave under our own steam and handled that front step.
 
Early mid 70's double dock's of Aussie white 33p, I think the only beer they sold was Carlsberg lager then. It shut at ten pm cross into the Windsor till 10.30 then Barberella's till 1-2 . Coffee at the towrope caff till the night service bus came.
 
Probably visited half a dozen times at most in my younger days and in the times when I was trying out a few of the drinks, mainly shorts, that I hadn't tried before. You didn't miss anything, Stitcher! :)

Maurice
 
Central Restaurant/Yates Wine Lodge
 

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1933 Acquisition of the Central Restaurant building by Yates.
 

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Blimey, Yate's ...thats a blast from the past and I remember the Australian white wine ;) Pop in there on a Wednesday night (when a nipper) because my wages would be running short by Weds then the Greyhound for scrumpy on Thursday night with my last pennies and then payday Friday to start the cycle all over again.
 
That sounds an interesting run richardinwale s. A man of taste by the sound of it who would have met a few characters.Was the rest of the week as good ? I am wondering if anyone remembers the old fella who used to run the little bar on the top deck snooker floor.I am sure he told me he was at Ypres in WW1.Also the young fella who ran the lift.
 
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