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For all you Sheldonites.

OK Ill tell you then.
Icarus, you were right with Cranes Park rd. Its the Sheldon Pub. Out side it says " An English pub with authentic Thai dining"(they still do burgers). I must say very nice inside, a lot of money spent.
 
My Sons a 2nd Chef at one of their Pubs in Ipswich, yes and they still do Burgers at 65% profit:)
 
Lets hope the customers have been refurbished because it had got a bad reputation with fighting and worse,
 
So it was`nt you who started all the fights, Ann, it was`nt me either, i have never been in there, i was told it was a pub to avoid. Len.
 
No, not guilty Len. Glad to hear it wasn't you either. And I can't recall ever anyone saying they use The Sheldon.

Ann
 
Going back some forty years, when we lived in Sheldon, I used to visit The Sheldon, with my late father in law. Good pub in those days and no problems then.
Hope the area has not gone down the drain since. Will.
 
The Sheldon first became a problem pub in the late 70s. Prior to that the pub provided good enterainment with week end free and easys and mid week bingo clubs for the oaps. The powers that be turned the pub into a disco then a Mr Qs totaly ruining another surburban pub, I cant see the pub now attracting the same customers The new owners have invested a lot of money on the refurb. They have kept a small lounge bar , but by the most part the pub is a restaraunt. Now one cant help but wonder where the Sheldons old customers will "drink" next thus making another pub to aviod. Is there any where decent left in Sheldon to have a drink. Or Birming ham for that matter. And before you lot say it i know about the tally ho.
 
I was on a rare visit home to Sheldon last Christmas and the place is a lost cause as far as good boozers go. Not a drop of Real Ale anywhere. It was advertised outside that place in Common Lane but clearly there is no call for it and it was the usual range of fizz. As for The Sheldon it at least appears well run with a good mixed crowd and footy on the telly.

What happened to the draught ales that used to be on sale at the Three Horse Shoes, The Wheatsheaf etc? The Wagon & Horses used to serve a good pint in the old days but it's gone now. Shame on those responsible for letting a historic coaching inn site be sold off. In despair I went into Solihull to that place in the High Street where they serve draught Bass - but was shown the door for wearing trackies :( My fault at 54 I suppose.

Please tell me there's at least one quiet pub left in Sheldon that sells a decent pint or I'll not come back again.

Oh, hello by the way. Great forum this :)
 
The three horse shoes does sell draught ale, but I don't know of any nice quiet pubs in sheldon anymore, the sheldon is now a chinese resturant and I think it's got a bar.
 
who remembers bloomer at the swan yardley . that wa the place to be in the 80s
 
i went into the Sheldon pub on 23rd August i was having a look at the house ware i was born which is 58 Cranes Park rd it is just across from the Sheldon and i went in there to use the toilet i needed a pee, i haven't been to brum for over 20 years and i was surprised to see the Coventry rd is now a duel carrage way and alot more building i used to live at the Glade for a few years up to 78.
 
Hi,

Just out of interest, and since I was born in Sheldon - Do you think that rather than being called Sheldonites - that a finer sobriquet is: 'Sheldonians'? or indeed 'Old Sheldonians'
 
I was born in Sheldon too and I think "Old Sheldonians"sounds better,I have been left there for the last 40years and it was a really nice place to live when I was growing up but I am not so sure about it now!:)
 
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Well I was born in Tile Cross and moved to Sheldon when I was four. I went to Cockshut Hill till 1966 . But I lived by the Stirup Cup then (Having moved from a Cockshut area to a Sheldon Comp area when I was 12) and all my mates went the "Comp" I even went with them on Saturdays to their school footie matches some times on the coach to as far as Coventry to watch 'em play..Also went with them to Wembley to watch the school boy International against Scotland... But we used to go in the lounge of the Sheldon on a Sunday night to a disco called "Bilboe Baggins" and it was a good night...I think the disco moved to the Malt Shovel at Stone-Bridge and we used to go there on Sunday nights. That was in the early 70's I used to work at Solihul Midland Research Station . Anyone else work on here work there?
 
Hi All,
I live in Warmington Road, the road that the Sheldon is on the corner of, when I moved here some 40 years ago it was a nice local family friendly pub as were most of them in those days. Where the new houses now stand was the crown green bowling green, and in the summer you could hear the click of the woods and the polite clapping, in fact the slabs in my front garden came from the front of the bowling green buildings, I had my wife and I had a small reception there when we got married, we couldn't afford a lot as we were buying our own house. When the land was sold off for re- development. This was the start of the down hill slide in standards, althought to be fair it depended on the manager of the day as to how well and diciplined he ran the place. The pub has changed hands several times over the last few years, and this has caused many different problems. All the residents have had to lobby the local M.P many times over the last 4 or 5 years to get it closed down because of nuisance from the pubs customers, this last change apparently is a last ditch stand as if this re-incarnation fails it is supposed to close. So far (touch wood) things have improved greatly, there wasn't even any idiots roaming the streets over the Xmas/ New Year period, now I don't know if this is because the place just doesn't attract the yob element, or it isn't having any customers as such, or the new owners are policing the the situation,
(we haven't been in for years on principal) Any way thsts the situation from a residents point of view.
Regards Chris B
 
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