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The turks head...closed

In case you missed my answer on the last page, I am glad to see the pub back open we had our 25th Anniversary party there 4 years ago.
 
my daughter lives opp it and it was open last night.it was shut for painting but it is open again now best wishes
 
Thanks for all the wishes for the pub, i am hoping we will do well, and hope you can have some future good experiences from it as you did from its past. It would be nice if any of you have any old pictures from the time you used the pub, and we may be able to have a section of the pub with pictures of the past and present :)
 
That's sparked off a couple of memories, Lyn ("Nurse, he's out of his bed again!")...
I have vague memories of Go Go Dancers dancing in cages in The Gilded Cage in Stephenson Street (but that could be a Brew XI flashback) in the early / mid 70s. Also, I definitely remember a friend of mine dragging me to The Britannia Hotel in Union Passage on a cold wet Friday afternoon around that time to ogle a Go Go dancer. I remember thinking it was even outdated then in 1976.
 
Barr_Beacon said:
That's sparked off a couple of memories, Lyn ("Nurse, he's out of his bed again!")...
I have vague memories of Go Go Dancers dancing in cages in The Gilded Cage in Stephenson Street (but that could be a Brew XI flashback) in the early / mid 70s. Also, I definitely remember a friend of mine dragging me to The Britannia Hotel in Union Passage on a cold wet Friday afternoon around that time to ogle a Go Go dancer. I remember thinking it was even outdated then in 1976.
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absolutely correct BB i remember the go go dancers in cages at the gilded cage.. 70/72

lyn
 
As it was and how it may one day look (although the work does seem to be progressing at a snail's pace with the second lane to Lancaster Circus still closed to traffic, whilst yet more "student accommodation" is allegedly still under construction - are there really that many students?):

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John L said:
As it was and how it may one day look (although the work does seem to be progressing at a snail's pace with the second lane to Lancaster Circus still closed to traffic, whilst yet more "student accommodation" is allegedly still under construction - are there really that many students?):

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doubt it john...they just invent them..many so called new student apartments are still empty...waste of time and money...

lyn
 
Not a waste to dubious property companies Lyn, as they can claim them as "assets"an dthen losses for various financial purposes which are nothing to do with real life
 
Barr_Beacon said:
That's sparked off a couple of memories, Lyn ("Nurse, he's out of his bed again!")...
I have vague memories of Go Go Dancers dancing in cages in The Gilded Cage in Stephenson Street (but that could be a Brew XI flashback) in the early / mid 70s. Also, I definitely remember a friend of mine dragging me to The Britannia Hotel in Union Passage on a cold wet Friday afternoon around that time to ogle a Go Go dancer. I remember thinking it was even outdated then in 1976.
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I'm glad you pay Homage to Brew X1
 
zak14 said:
How sad,

my dear departed Dad used to go in there when he had been to the town to get some fish for his dinner. He started to use it after Mom had passed on and he had out lived all of his old friends. I used to go and sit with him sometimes, would have been in the late 1990's.

I used it in the late 1970's with an old girlfriend.
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I lived by the Barton Arms from 1976-1997 used to pass the place regularly and not once did I go in there
 
Dionysius//88 said:
I lived by the Barton Arms from 1976-1997 used to pass the place regularly and not once did I go in there
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I remember travelling back home each evening on the 33 in the hot summer of 1976 along the Birchfield Road and looking enviously through the doors of The Bull's Head at the old blokes having a cold pint. Despite the all the windows and the bus doors being open, it was like travelling in a portable sauna. One of those pubs I wanted to visit but sadly, never got around to it.
 
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