Yates’s Wine Lodge Central Restaurant Corporation Street

[Mossy]

Does any one remember a gent that used to sit down stairs who always wore a white panama hat we used to call him panama bill this was in the 60s

Mossy

 

[johnedward]

Reference Yates yes I remember that one but with fond memories the one in Nottingham who had a String Quartet in the upstairs bar circa 1980. And also the one in Liverpool where they chucked you in to drink rather than the other way around definite spit & saw dust Leicester the same.
I now live in Swansea and Yates is just a plastic / chrome pub .
I guess its a shame we won't see those happy days again.
John

 

[Stitcher]

yates's Wine Lodge.1961.

 

[maypolebaz]

See that little step ? Hardly anything at all really.

When I was (briefly) on the buses, in '68 we sometimes had to park up outside Yates's for a while.

I wish I had a quid for the number of people who fell down that step coming out of the place !

 

[mike jenks]

hi

happy days four superb snooker tables at the Top. Superb little bar staffed by
a little guy called Dai. St Andrews or Villa Park in the Afternoon. Back to Yates
for another session of Snooker. Then an evening at either Perry Barr or Hall Green
Dogs. By 10-30 my Shoe came off for that 2/- for the Bus Fare Home.
Happy Day's at Yates's 1961 to 1964.

Mike Jenks

 

[paul stacey]

that includes me Baz!!!!!!!
paul

 

[davidfowler]

Here's a photo from 1951

 

[fellowkev]

Hi,
Sounds like a great place to while away some time.
I know this is a long shot, but do any of you remember a Mrs Jessica Fellows by chance? She is my grandmother. She spent a lot of time at Yates, I hear. She would have been 55 in 1960. Just a long shot. Thanks!

 

[mike jenks]

Hi

Sorry there were Hundreds of people packed into the various areas.

Mike Jenks

 

[cookie273uk]

A favourite place for my late Wife and I after shopping or the cinema in the 1950's and 60's, that and the Bodega. Eric

 

[Bangles5652]

I recall that I heard that around 1970 Yates wine lodge had the longest bar in Europe. Can anyone confirm this?
Yates was well known for a quick pick me up but any longer you would leave hammered.

 

[sheldontony]

I always believed that the Swan Yardley had the longest bar in Europe around 1970.

 

[mikejee]

I remember being told that about the Swan then, as well

 

[Phil]

Yes it was the Swan, now it's supposed to be the Square Peg, but according to the Guinness Book of Records it's the Horseshoes Bar in Glasgow that holds the record at 104' 4". I suppose before the Swan was built that Yate's might have been the longest as it stretched from Corporation St to Cannon St almost. I was quite partial to the odd dock of Australian White in there as a youngster.

 

[maypolebaz]

I don't know about the longest bar but I remember being told that the biggest pub in Brum was The Swan, (the old one), and that the Maypole was the second biggest.

 

[alan bartlett]

We used to start our Saturday nights in Yates,s. Qeuing up single file to the bar for a "Dock of Ausi White". Large glass and really strong. We didn,t stay in there though as later in the night it became a war zone. Up to the Costamonger from there or maybe The Tavern In The Town, always packed in there. After the pubs closed it was round to Rebeccas till the small hours then the night service bus home to Perry Common.

 

[Jonathan Knibb]

The lift, referred to earlier in this thread, was operated by a strange individual who would squeak 'room for one only'. I never used it. They had a sandwich counter opposite the main bar. The salad sandwiches were excellent and, if you were lucky, you could get some of yesterday's soup tipped into today's special.
It had Wild West swing doors and a tarmac floor. Numerous people had their 'ticket' and went into The Windsor where they probably got another.

 

[Big Gee]

I remember Yates on Corporation St....one of the roughest boozers in town. Two of my mates used it regularly to get tanked up prior to embarking on a grand tour of the city's then-many jazz pubs on a Friday night. I only went in once - couldn't stomach the cheap Australian junk. While I was there that evening someone was stabbed during a short but sharp altercation in the downstairs part, and nobody really took a lot of notice. I never made a return visit.

G

 

[Bob keys]

I remember Yates on Corporation St....one of the roughest boozers in town. Two of my mates used it regularly to get tanked up prior to embarking on a grand tour of the city's then-many jazz pubs on a Friday night. I only went in once - couldn't stomach the cheap Australian junk. While I was there that evening someone was stabbed during a short but sharp altercation in the downstairs part, and nobody really took a lot of notice. I never made a return visit.

G

My dad ran the falstaff in bull st and on his banking day took me on a mini tour to the midland bank calling on fellow landlords at suffields, the cabin, Yates and the Windsor before arriving at the bank
Yates had the most atmosphere
Bk

 

[maypolebaz]

I remember Yates on Corporation St....one of the roughest boozers in town. Two of my mates used it regularly to get tanked up prior to embarking on a grand tour of the city's then-many jazz pubs on a Friday night. I only went in once - couldn't stomach the cheap Australian junk. While I was there that evening someone was stabbed during a short but sharp altercation in the downstairs part, and nobody really took a lot of notice. I never made a return visit.

G

I, also, only made one visit, (Likewise to the Liverpool branch).
One of the turns out of Yardley Wood garage, when I was "On the Buses", required us to park up outside of Yates's for a while.
The establishment entrance, for some reason, had a step, about 2 inches high. It was a source of constant amusement to us, watching the various drunks emerge and fall down it.

 

[tim eborn]

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.

 

[northender]

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.

 

[northender]

Does Ken (the parrifin man) as they thought he would just burn like a wick if lit always soaked, ring a bell.

 

[Stitcher]

This is an establishment I never visited.

 

[sospiri]

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

 

[Oldun]

Central Restaurant/Yates Wine Lodge

 

[sospiri]

Thanks for uploading those interesting papers, Oldun, I'm sure many members will welcome a look at those.

Maurice

 

[Oldun]

Thank you Maurice,I hope so.

 

[Oldun]

1933 Acquisition of the Central Restaurant building by Yates.

 

[richardinwales]

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.