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Barton's Arms High Street Aston

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It gets very busy on match days, so I guess the new taps will speed up the service and maximise takings, to help keep the pub going. Not so sure about having too many away fans in though. As has been said, the taps are not the issue. Keeping it open and retaining what makes it so important is.
 
John L said:
It gets very busy on match days, so I guess the new taps will speed up the service and maximise takings, to help keep the pub going. Not so sure about having too many away fans in though. As has been said, the taps are not the issue. Keeping it open and retaining what makes it so important is.
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absolutely john...its played a big part of my life as i was born in paddington st and its always been there standing proud when all around was being demolished

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John L said:
It gets very busy on match days, so I guess the new taps will speed up the service and maximise takings, to help keep the pub going. Not so sure about having too many away fans in though. As has been said, the taps are not the issue. Keeping it open and retaining what makes it so important is.
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Done some bar fitting in my time i suggested once when do out a old Vicky pub in Hull that it was possible to keep the old pumps and bases with the new taps working behind and below matched to the beer on the pumps got shot down over that idea
 
Are the privacy boards still above the bar in there ? They were there in the 1970s. Hopefully they're kept too. You don't see many of those in pubs anymore.
 
Mark Tooze said:
In the early 1980s my old school St Georges Comprehensive performed an old style musical hall night in the upstairs function room at the Bartons Arms (I doubt a school could perform a show in a pub these days but.....).
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Mr. Walsh was the teacher with the moustache. I liked him although I heard a few tales about him after I left.
 
pagan said:
Going back a very long time my grandad used to entertain in the Bartons Arms under the name Will Bent, he was a comedian. I wonder does anyone remember this.

I also remember that when my grandparents were living in Newtown there were two other pubs, The Griffin and the Paddocks.
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My dad Malcolm Stevens (he is 81 years old now) used to be a singer & compared what they called the 'Free & Easy' nights back in the day (more commonly known as 'Open Mic' nights these days) probably 35-40 years ago? I vaguely remember one occasion when Sally James (TISWAS) Sue Pollard (Hi-de-Hi) and David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) were there? I'm not sure if they were possibly filming TV show? Can anybody else remember this or even better remember my dad the singer/compare? He sang in pubs/clubs all over Birmingham for probably 30+ years with various bands.
 
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