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Sounds like the old "Trocadero", to me, but I last visited in around 63, so could have changed its name and decor, not sure if I have spelt the name right !!

I remember most of all, being young, the wrigleys and beechnut chewing gum, which i used all the time !!

Remember them all!!

Thanks Derek, oh, what a shame, in the 60's both places were very busy at week ends, it was the place to go i the summer!!

Yes Stokkie, all the biker boys would go there first for a few, then to the Hen and chickens on the Wolverhampton Road, the party piece I remember most was rolling a penny uphill !. I've been gone a long time now and its over 60 years ago , so may be wrong!!

When a lad I was always of the opinion that the "Crooked House" , was at Kimber Edge, near the caves ??

I remember the the posh school, as my mate Mick Whitehouse lived in Woodlands Park, and I passed it regularly!!!

What a shame!! so iconic, a great beacon from my youth, drank a few there in my time, and it was a marvel to behold, someone said it should have gone to the black country museum I agree!!!

#665, What a beauty!!

Used to love, Adjutants Saturday morning, defaulters Parade,usually p*****g down with rain !!!

Nulli Secundus Aggie

What Regt Graham

Yes it was , thanks Janice!!

"The White Horse Cellars" strikes a memory with me , but my pubing days were early 60's, would it have been called that then ?

Great weapon the .303, used an old WW1 short nose, at the Small arms range at Waterbeach Barracks when in the Full Bore Club , back in the 70's 80's, had a Colt .45 1911 issue to !!

me to mikeflan, may even have met as there always a few spotters here!!

I remember that old signal box!!

I am not completely sure , but I seem to remember it being built around 61/62 time, by "Wates," I think, an old girlfriend left school and worked there, Sandra Hancock.

What an interesting story, my maternal Grandfather was a serving constable, and murdered on duty 1921.

The bike I always wanted in the early 60's was a "Daws Double Blue"!!