Worried about the Red Lion, Handsworth, and the Waterloo, Smethwick

[Astoness]

Re; The Waterloo Hotel...There is a You Tube Video that I have watched that shows the extent of the damage inside,Carol Field who was Landlady was totally shocked at the state of Building...It was actually recorded as a BBC. Documentry...Very interesting as the Video also shows the actual Auction and who bought the Hotel...

is there any chance you could post us the link to the you tube video please as i cant seem to find it...

lyn

 

[Radiorails]

Is this the one Lyn?

 

[Robert Ensor (bob)]

Bob, absolutely...……..When I came to the US I took so much of what we had in Brum for granted! Now 50 years later I am really sad and looking to reclaim everything I miss.
There are a couple of bars in my town run by a couple of guys from Ireland, they serve pretty good F&C and occasionally good beer but the atmosphere is not the same!

You can import beer and can duplicate fish batter and fry a spud
What can not not import or duplicate in the warmth of having your work mates or people you have known for years and all the characters found in your local
You can be sure people who lived in the back to backs and the courts knew all the names of the people that lived so close by.
These pubs sold beer of course but what they were was a social gathering place somewhere for the tribe to come together and that's what we are losing along with some good looking buildings.

 

[Astoness]

You can import beer and can duplicate fish batter and fry a spud
What can not not import or duplicate in the warmth of having your work mates or people you have known for years and all the characters found in your local
You can be sure people who lived in the back to backs and the courts knew all the names of the people that lived so close by.
These pubs sold beer of course but what they were was a social gathering place somewhere for the tribe to come together and that's what we are losing along with some good looking buildings.

well said bob

lyn

 

[Radiorails]

You can import beer and can duplicate fish batter and fry a spud
What can not not import or duplicate in the warmth of having your work mates or people you have known for years and all the characters found in your local
You can be sure people who lived in the back to backs and the courts knew all the names of the people that lived so close by.
These pubs sold beer of course but what they were was a social gathering place somewhere for the tribe to come together and that's what we are losing along with some good looking buildings.

Quite so. I mentioned some while ago about the homeliness and (usually ) camaraderie of the old fashioned local pub - of which, in the past - were plentiful. In the times of large families, no television and low wages the pub was the place to be. It was warm, your friends were there, banter or constructive discussions were possible, dart matches and card games took the place of tv soporifics. It also mean that in a busy house you were less likely to get under others feet as they say.

 

[Robert Ensor (bob)]

Is this the one Lyn?

Do I really sound like that ?, a couple of real Brumie's talking there
How sad to see

 

[Astoness]

thanks alan just watched the video...i think the least i say about this the better but i will just say that unless these wonderful old pubs are taken on by people with the genuine intentions of not knocking the life out of them then we have no hope of saving them . .thanks god our bartons arms newtown was saved

lyn

 

[Radiorails]

Do I really sound like that ?, a couple of real Brumie's talking there
How sad to see

as they say, aar!

 

[Richard Dye]

You can import beer and can duplicate fish batter and fry a spud
What can not not import or duplicate in the warmth of having your work mates or people you have known for years and all the characters found in your local
You can be sure people who lived in the back to backs and the courts knew all the names of the people that lived so close by.
These pubs sold beer of course but what they were was a social gathering place somewhere for the tribe to come together and that's what we are losing along with some good looking buildings.

Very well said...……….

 

[Lady Penelope]

Just come past he Red Lion on the 74 (been to get some samosas and gulab jamon from Soho Road). The pub looks very forlorn and so does the one a few does up - I think it's called The Pump?