Selly Park Tavern

[Lemonella]

After working at the Sir Harry pub I went to the Selly Park Tavern to earn extra money for Christmas. Anyone work there or drink in there in the 70s?

 

[Phil]

I used it two or three times at the most in the 1960's to be quite honest I didn't think much of it as a pub, I much preferred The Highbury and the Dogpool.

 

[Lemonella]

I used it two or three times at the most in the 1960's to be quite honest I didn't think much of it as a pub, I much preferred The Highbury and the Dogpool.

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It must have improved by the 70s then. We lived up the road from the Dogpool and it looked like quite a rough place. The Selly Park was frequented by the police as the training centre was near and they had regular musicians who played there. It was a big pub with lots of staff.

 

[Lemonella]

I used it two or three times at the most in the 1960's to be quite honest I didn't think much of it as a pub, I much preferred The Highbury and the Dogpool.

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What pub is in the photo?

 

[pjmburns]

Selly Park has a skittle alley.

 

[Phil]

Lemonella

The pub in the photo is the Selly Park Tavern, looking on Google I don't think it has changed a bit since I last visited it in the 1960's. They may have tidied it up a little, but it still looks the same. As you say back in the 60's the Selly Park might have been sedate and refined, but I wasn't one for quiet and respectable pubs the rougher the better there was more life in them. I'm not saying that I think that way today, but even today I don't stay long if the pub is too quiet.

 

[jmadone]

I went to someone's Stag do there in the early 70s, it was held in a concert room above the pub. Another person present on the night was the actor Paul Henry (Benny in Crossroads) with whom I had quite a conversation and was a thoroughly likeable chap. My only visit to that establishment I'm afraid.