The Matchmaker,Kitts Green

[Alberta]

Now no longer there, but was not always the Matchmaker,can anyone remember what else it was called.

 

[Phil]

Alberta

I'm not sure if it ever was called anything else, I always thought it was a church.

Phil

 

[Alberta]

Thanks,since found out it was the Boars Head.

 

[Alf]

Alberta any idea when it changed its name?

 

[lencops]

There was a British Legion club next door. Len.

 

[jerry]

It's a Quick Fit garage now.
The Legion club was opposite and it's still there but it isn't a club anymore, it went bust and was bought a few weeks back by the guy who owns the Kerryman in Digbeth and he's turned it into an ordinary pub.

 

[Alf]

Whats a ordinary Pub now a days Jerry

 

[Mossy]

Spit and sawdust and spittoons Alf

Mau-reece

 

[Alf]

There was one like that in Marston Green when I first lived there in 1960s

They pulled pints straight from the Barrels

 

[lencops]

Morning Alf, Name of the Marston Green spit & sawdust pub please. Len.

 

[welder]

Marston Green Tavern.....or possibly The Bell, down Bell Lane but I always regarded that as Tile Cross.

Ian

 

[joes]

I remember the matchmaker being built,before then it was waste ground,and a small caravan parked there selling ciggs ,sweets and news papers.
We used the matchmaker for a few years but moved on to the Lea Tavern a better pub and they were more welcoming to bikers.

 

[guyarab]

In the 1990s it was called the Boars Head