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Footballers Taking Over Pubs

found it..it was the salutation corner of constitution hill and summer lane...this is a pic of the other sally in alma st but gives the story of it...will post the other salutation.
 

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this is the sally that the ex villa player ran...
 

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See the palm trees swaying way down Summer lane

On a Saturday night theres a jubilation seeing them throwing bottles in the Salutation


Mossy
 
you know what mossy...i bet summer lane was just great in those days....some say a rough place but from what ive read about the lane everyone stuck together and helped each other out....

great song that....

lyn:):)
 
Mossy,
The words from the summer lane song are..."every Saturday night there's a jubilation you can see them dancing in the Salutation".
Sorry to be fussy,but my mom taught me the song when I was a little squirt.
Bottle throwing was an American habit,The pubs in the city wouldn't serve them with bottles.:Dancedancer08:.
 
i guess it was mossy but its just the sense of community spirit when the going got tough that i admire so much...i well remember it from my own childhood..:):)


 
Ray if you look on The Summer Lane Kids website the late Brian's see the the palm trees swaying it says see the dancing in the Salutation and he should know so there are different versions but i bet Brian's is correct

Mossy
 
Hi everybody,it have been pubs ran by exfootballers in Brum, round Derby
they went into sub postoffices , when I was a collections driver Ive had many a chat with Harold Bodel the old Blues,he always gave up a wee
dram at Christmas, at one time he left his wife to the office, it was only a
small one and went off to manage Burton Albion, the old chairman there
treated H like a son, David Nish also had a subpostofice as did Henry Newton and Kevin Hector works at DMO as a delivery postman.
Perhaps we could have thread whatever happened to ######?
Bernard67Arnold:cool:
 
Mossy,
The only time I heard the "bottle throwing" version,was from Malcom Stent,Brian Harding and my mom,got it right,sorry for being picky,but having known people from the Summer Lane area of the time,I know they didn't need to throw bottles.
Have a look in my photo's,there are a couple of pics. of these lovely people.:Dancedancer05:
 
i remember johnny watts of the blues had a newsagents on the adderley rd
 
I went out with Derek Kevan for a (short) while. I bet he drank all the profits from any pub he ran!
 
i remember johnny vincent taking over the BARREL PUB...it ay there no more in WARLEY/OLDBURY..there used to be a picture of him and PELE. hanging behind the bar....
 
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