king standing pub
hi crom; and bren and friends
i,ve been just lookng at the pics of the king standing pub,
why did they knock down the old one , may be for that dirty
grey precint i surpose , i have a cousin whom works in the precint
peter smart he used to have a butcher shop up on the kings road
i think it was also a freezer centre of frozen meat , many many years ago
the last i heard of him in the 70, to 80,s was he was a manager aT
walter smiths the butchers in that dirty old precint
i dont know whether that is still there , i honestly dont know
as you all know i live in a little village in worcestshire
but getting back on track regards the pub , it will not detere these people
whom are the punters of the licencee,s. i had the unfortuneate pleasure in
going into that pub afew years ago to speak to the land lady ,
to obtain some info; on the pub down the road ,
the hare and hounds , before i took the licence out on it
the licence officier was based at sutton coldfield police station
whom said go and speak with a certain lady , namely the licence,e
about the hare and hounds before taking it on
and when i went in it was ghastly , the pitts the smell of gunge , smokey
and full of gangie , [ dope ] and the clientele is not to be desired
all old lags excons arm robbers vag abonds all from across b,ham
there was qiute afew i reconised from the past even spoke to them
that pub will never change ,and you will never change the punters , believe me they run the pub, no smoking ban ain,t gonna work there believe me
and if they haven,t decided yet to knock it down yet ;
i think you will be surprized it won,t be that far behind when
the police decide to closed it down because they can not enforce that pub rules regarding the no smoking ban
they objected to the hare and hounds licence , before i came around
and they gave it to me , but because the owner was dodgy
he was not up front with me as to why the police would not give him a licence for the hare and hounds , i resigned the licence back
at the last minute , i knew the pub had a chequerd history ,
because i have a couple of market traders cousins whom lived
around in hurlingham rd and they still do , and the sutton police also told me the reasons as to why they will not give him one for it
i have a big noise brother inlaw whom is well known around b,ham
through out and he his a prosecuter fot the wasall area whom lives down
the greenway by the sutto park in a very big house
whom also informed me ,had he told me the truth he could have had his licence
but yet again getting back to the king standing pub
i would like to say that the couple of picutures that was shown was good
and that today s picture is bad as it is outside as inside
i never knew the old pub ,but it looked a nice pub ,
i knew that kingstanding in the fifties had the kingstanding mob
whom all used to carry a bed spring in there pockets for beating people up
and you had the teddy boys but i won,nt have thought
they are like todays riff , that frequent there
i there say i could name quite afew today if i walked in ,
and i do know that for certain , i met some one the other week whom filled me in on who,s where and where best wishes astonian ,