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Alberta

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Cannot for the life of me remember the name of the pub which was at the entrance to Elmdon airport.
The building is still there next to the gates for International Airport ,Cargo division.
 
Alberta

Are you talking about the Airport Hotel? They did change its name later to something else.

Phil

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See Bill Dargue's website in which he mentions the Excelsior. The bar within had a few names none of which I can recall - just remember being warned off going or was it me being warned to not let my youngsters go there - how memory plays tricks.
 
Moss, I thought it was the Excelsior but dismissed it because my husband thought it was a name connected to air travel but now the name Buchaneer rings a bell.
Perhaps the Buchaneer was one of the bars in the Excelsior.
 
The hotel was the Excelsior and the bar at the front was the Buccaneer, there used to be a grey parrot named Ben in a cage on the bar.
 
Wasn't the Propeller the name of the club up the lane just past the airport road off the Coventry Rd that disappeared under the NEC or New Airport?

Phil
 
Thanks M Humphreys ............ yes i do remember the parrot on the bar in the Buccaneer , it was qiute unusual in those days .
ragga .....
 
Under Trust-House Forte the Hotel was called the Excelsior and on the site were two Private Clubs, the Warwick, owned by the Warwick Aero Club, pulled down a few years ago, on the site of the new Hotel they are building and the BA club on the patch of ground between Commissary Road and the back entrance to Airport, dismantled when they put a Security Check Point in and BA moved out of Birmingham, the Warwick was used by the workers on site and could stay open a lot longer than Pubs, some of my work mates would stay there all night, but the Airport closed it down as they wanted the site for the proposed exstention which never came about and now have made it into a other use and where they parked the Maglev's, they also refused an exstension to the Cafe down near the old building, did this by putting barriers around it so you could not park your vehicle close till the lease closed, except for my place of work, no where else supplied meals for the workers so it was well used.
 
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE PUB THAT WAS SITUATED UP THE SLOPE TO THE RIGHT OF LITTLEWOODS STORE .INTO THE OASIS MARKET ...IN THE 60s.
 
hi sandra..the only one i know of that was actually in oasis market is the costermonger...still there but no longer called so...

lyn
 
sandracoley said:
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE PUB THAT WAS SITUATED UP THE SLOPE TO THE RIGHT OF LITTLEWOODS STORE .INTO THE OASIS MARKET ...IN THE 60s.
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I think you might be thinking of the cabin Sandra.There are pictures of it on the site somewhere .
Keegs
 
There was a pub there called the Hole in the Wall late 60s early 70s
 
The Hole in the Wall was situated at the back near where the Blues shop is now, tucked under the ramp, no idea if it is still there
 
I being taken into the Buccaneer bar as an office junior in the early 80's I think.... But the main watering hole was the Warwickshire Aero Club
and more recently the Silver Wings. I also rememebr the BMA 707 that used to roll in late on a Friday night quickly followed by its crew 20 minutes
later.........
 
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