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Bowling Green pub Holloway Head

Tiny

Tiny

master brummie
can anyone tell me when they closed the Bowling Green pub in Holloway head as I worked on the other side of the road at BICC cables and used to spend most dinnertimes in there.i know it was a grubby pub and we could not fathom out where they hid the bowling green it was named after If anyone has a picture of this pub I would like to see it again also the Greyhound pub which I know is now a lap dancing club.
 
hi tiny
if my memory serves me correctly i think it was the late sixties or the early seventies the bowling green pub closed its doors
you was correct to say grubby halfof brums low light crooks used that place and old lags surely as a ex police officier you would have known it for what it was some where on the achives thereis an old pic of the bowling green in its original state of the frontage
in its early days of brum it did have a bowling green
do you recall the grey hound when you could buy a pint of sweet cider for a penny and half penny for the rough cider
it was like swalling glass also it was only a entry you walked up and into a back yard with a stable door on your right hand side where you purchased your drink and you could sit in a sheltered area
when it came to the sixties era the students [ nick named the beatnics ] started to over take the little court yard and sit there all nightsupping 1 pint of cider and smoking pot as ir was in them days
then they built the sack of pototes and then they moved out and when and took over that so that would have been extended
in the late seventies with a new frontage and a smoke room
and years later rebuilt and moved further along to and around the
corner . tiny dud you ever get to know the licencing officeir at digbeth nick .
best wishes astonion ;;;;;;;;
 
Tony, there are one or two photos of the Grayhound on the site, If its the one that was a (hic) cider house.
 
I remember the Grey Hound very well, it was the only place I knew where you could get as nist as a pute on a tanner. we used to filter the bits out of the cider with our teeth and spit it out in a ball. can't do that anymore no teeth wife uses them for pie making.
 
Hi Tiny

Found them at last. I had to do a lot of sorting to find these, but I knew I had them.

1. Drawing of the original Bowling Green Public House.
2. Photo of The Bowling Green c1964
3. The Greyhound Cider House.

Phil

DrawingOriginalBowlingGreen.jpg
HollowayHeadBowlingGreen1964.jpg


HollawayHeadTheGreyhound-1.jpg
 
Tiny said:
can anyone tell me when they closed the Bowling Green pub in Holloway head as I worked on the other side of the road at BICC cables and used to spend most dinnertimes in there.i know it was a grubby pub and we could not fathom out where they hid the bowling green it was named after If anyone has a picture of this pub I would like to see it again also the Greyhound pub which I know is now a lap dancing club.
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Tiny I worked at Walsall Conduits 1969-71 in Upper Gough St , it was closed at that time . Ron Kenyon who at one time was the gaffer of the Bowling Green took over The Gough Arms shortly after
 
Lady P.
These seem to have been photos posted on Photobucket. I am sure Phil will be able to replace them. I think I have copies, but will leave it to Phil in case they are not the same ones
 
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