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The pub under the ramp

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Not strictly Nechells, but a lot of people used Town as a "local".
Can anyone remember the name of the pub under the ramp to New St., Station. The original name?
It wasn't the Gilded Cage that was further along.
And while were at it, the very small pub on the opposite side of the road done out like a train, I think it was part of the hotel...name?

Thanks in advance.
 
You're not on about that impressive building The Queens Hotel are you ? It was opened on the 1st June 1854 and finally closed and demolished in 1964
:?:
 
Dirtyden.
No, I am not sure that the ramp was even there in 1964. The pub to which I refer is under the ramp that leads to New St., Station. The pub itself would be in Stephenson Place and is just past the public toilets tucked right in to the corner. Since my drinking days I think it has been extended and can now be accessed actually from the top of the ramp. I beleive, last time I was there it was the Slug and Luttece!!

Loveday.
Yes that's it - is it still there?
 
Hi Keith,

I was last in Brum in 1979 before I took off for the "Far Flung". I do now recall the pub you're on about.
My favourite "Watering Holes" in the city back then were:-
The Nelson, The Costermonger, The Tavern... and I even went in Yates Wine Lodge !!!
8)
 
Can confirm, having had a pint or two in there in the 50's, that it was The Exchange.

The failing memory of a "silver surfer" at your service!
Drank in a lot of pubs in and around Brum, but can't remember all the names!!
 
:lol: Lovday! you have hit the nail on the head The Exchange!!! yes.

Thanks
 
Hey Keith, are you the Keith that writes to me? if so, when are we going to have this drink then?
I remember, I never actually got to drinking in Town until '74, I had been imbibing down the 'Ashted Hamlet'...now also closed,
I can remember when I did start drinking in Town, we (Steve Grater, Steve Cox and me), we started off at the Hole in the wall, then the Pen and Wig, from there onto the Costermongers (used to play that bloody shuffleboard game)
Then into the Tavern in the Town, from there to the Parisian, a swift one in Yates then back to the Tavern...NOW that was a bloody mistake! :)
I also used to drink in the Tom Thumb, The Rocket, The Eagle Pub (by the Library)
Names I remember my Dad drank in were, The Royal Oak in Lister St, The Swan, Loxton St, The Train, (Rocket) The Pretty Ladies, mostly gone now..
In fact if you think about it, the only places still standing around 'Home' are the Gasometers, Home tower, etc, Cromwell St School, Camrose tower, The Dairy and St Mathews Church...Oh, and the Swimming baths in Nechells...Not much really.
 
The pub opposite the Gilded Cage was called 'The Iron Horse'!. Can I add to the pub crawl? Anyone remember 'The Windsor'? Also, in the summer we used to amble up to 'The Long Boat' behind the Rep (this was in the 70's ). Spent some lovely evenings sitting on the balcony watching the boats and having a drink!
 
sorry kandor,they even demolished the dairy now,the ashted was closed ,but now they set fire to it
 
the train,or rocket or the winning post ,where the dairy was
 

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i have put these here as i need to empty my memory card no point in wasting them,have a look (while they are still here)that arsonist might have been paid again:Aah:
 

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Anyone remember The Clarendon, near where the back of Rackhams (whoops) is? I had my first date with my husband there in 1962. Our wedding reception was at the Hope and Anchor in Edmund Street. I expect they pulled it down shortly after!!
The Windsor is still a nice pub, go there sometimes after a Saturday afternoon's shopping
 
The Hope And Anchor
 

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Well Hello Dolly...:)
The last pub is the Eagle, that was my local from '71 to 1973
And a great pub it was too! I remember sitting in there with my girlfriend Judy while Peter Skellern was singing 'You're a Lady'
Great days..
 
I'm feeling nostalgic reading this. I've never recovered from going to The Windsor, turning around the corner only to find they had demolished it! (sometime in the 80's)

Has an anyone got a photograph of it?
 
Thanks for the lovely picture of The Hope and Anchor, Postied.
I've printed it off (hope you don't mind) and intend to frame it.
They put on a lovely spread for our wedding reception. A couple of friends who shared a flat lived for a week off the leftovers!
Fancy demolishing this - and The Woodman was even nicer.
 
Can Anyone Recall The White horSE PUB ON Congrieve st
It Was Around The Corner From The Old Registera Office
In the Fiffties And Sixties
And it Would Have Stood on The Back End Of Central libary
And IT Would Have Been About Five Hundred Yards
From The Fountain That Faces THE Art gallery
On The S QUARE BY The Town Hall
The EXIT To The Pub Was In A GREEN TILED WALLS
And If My Memory Serves ME RIGHT YOU Had A BIG PARAPITT
AND CARPET ON THE FLOOR ON ENTRY
AND YOU WENT DOWN STAIRS
I BELIEVE THEY KNOCKED IT DOWN
To Make Way For The New Central Libary
Does Anybody recall using The Old libary
When The Staff Used To Climb BiG LADDERS
TO GET YOUR BOOK OFF THE SHELFS
 
I remember the upstairs floor of The windsor....it was god awful..I prefered Yates Wine Lodge, the original one, you certainly got some characters in there!
 
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