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The Longboat, Cambrian Wharf

Not unexpected but it is a great shame. I was lucky enough to spend some nice hot summer's there, sitting on the balcony enjoying a nice view of Summerhill Library with it's terracotta bricks shimmering in the summer heat
I can't see how the new building will complement the Georgian cottages, it's going to be quite overbearing architecturally.
 
No Viv, the original factory was one of those asbestos clad steel framed places. I can certainly remember all of the broken-up asbestos all over the place.
 
Sakura, I agree with your sentiments but how was The Hole In the Wall connected to the atrocity? That was in Dale End, and as far as I remember it was never bombed.
Yes you are quite right about the hole in the wall pub.. in later times it became Sarah Moons.. then a friend of mine had it and called it The Confession Box... Now it's called PEAKY BLINDERS..
 
Just read that they are planning to demolish The Longboat in Cambrian Wharf. I must admt that when I visited it last year it felt a little bit run down, but I always remember the summers I spent there, especially the long hot summer of 1976. Lump in the throat time!

List of pubs that have gone that I still remember...

Bogarts
The Windsor (the REAL one)
The Parisian
Cagney's
The Costermonger
The Pen and Wig
The White Swan (Edmund St)
The Church Inn / Cathedral Tavern
The Bier Keller (Needless Alley)
St. Paul's Tavern (Ludgate Hill)
The Golden Eagle (Hill St.)
The Parasol (Hill St.)
The Crown (Broad St.)
The Australian Bar (Hurst St.)
The White Lion (Bristol St.) (I loved Davenport's Continental Lager!)
The pub above the Bodega , opposite St. Chad's Cathedral
The Philibuster (! desperately tryning to relaim those dead brain cells!)
The Three Horse Shoes (Pershore Rd)
The Red Lion (Vicarage Rd.) (Still much the same, not many left!))
The Nelson (Top of Temple St. near the cathedral)
The Royal Mail (New St.)
Tavern in the Town (New St.)
The Old Contemptibles
The Horse Trader (Horsefair)
The Greyhound (Cider house, Bath Row)
The Glue Pot / Sam Weller's (John Bright St.ory for using up valuable space but I felt I had to try to remember while I still could![/
 
spent many a happy hour in the longboat after going to spring hill rollar rink...does anyone know if it has been demolished yet

lyn
 
If and when the Flapper is demolished there is the aspect of what heritage feature remain in the foundations. The crane is listed grade II and is said to have belonged to the former warehouse range in this site. How much of the former warehouse foundations remain should also be the subject of an archeological study.
 
My recollection of the site was a not so a old building with a steel trussed rafter asbestos sheet roof. I do recall the remains of a canal arm within the building, and I am sure there was an old transformer in the middle of the floor.
 
 
In 1977 Birmingham Polytechnic students living in Cambrian Hall would often drink there. It was The Longboat then.
 
was just thinking about the longboat and wondered if anyone has any updates on it...is it still open because on the website it says it is which would be good news considering it was meant to be demolished

lyn
 
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