Oh yeah I remember that now because of the wallThere was a pub there, it got demolished to make way for the university multi story car park.
Can’t remember the name, but i’m sure it had a picture of Che Guevara on the wall..?
Yes it was called The Peacock. Next to the Social security building, now University site. It was a tough boozer, spit and sawdust !Would that have been the Peacock years ago?
Think it may have had some sort of South American theme after that.
I went for a meal at Habibi a few days back and when walking up towards the old Colin Campbell I had a 'memory' of a pub that I thought used to be somewhere along that street. Can anyone tell me if i'm making things up or was there a building (presumably now demolished) somewhere along the stretch that housed a pub? I would presume it was around the area that the national tyres building is in, before the Morris building but not so far down as being Far Gosford Street. I would be thinking that this building stood in the 90's/2000's. Either that or was there a pub in one of the buildings that is still there?
Caramba it was called when it had the mural
Yes, the Peacock was where the entrance to the university multi-storey car park is now. It was demolished about 10 years ago.
Went in there many times. Lively pub with some "characters " !My auntie and uncle ran the peacock in the late 70s early 80s
There was a pub there, it got demolished to make way for the university multi story car park.
Can’t remember the name, but i’m sure it had a picture of Che Guevara on the wall..?
My auntie and uncle ran the peacock in the late 70s early 80s
They are an Irish family but I think they had the pub a bit laterWas it run by an Irish family? ( yours ? ) I think it was around 75 when I was there 1 or 2 times.
They are an Irish family but I think they had the pub a bit later
Their names were Bridie and Robert
Are we talking about this place? You can view old images on google street view. This was in 2008. Used to go in there on the way home from Scholars sometimes when I didn't want the night to end. Absolute mayhem.
Criminal that they could pull a building like that down.
Did Bones go there too?
Sounds like the guy who had the Hand & Heart in the mid 90'sJeez. I remember the Peacock. Had many, many lock-ins at that place.
Juke box crammed full of Pogues, Dubliners, Housemartins etc.
Was working at the poly at the time in r-block (everything was known by block back in the day) and the Peacock was also know as p-block due to the amount of lunchtime 'meetings' held there.
Owner was like a stocky bobby ball iirc.
What's Gringos now?
Remember going in there on an all dayer once and was entertained by undoing the lids on the salt and watching the students have to eat salty burgers.
A student bar called Quids In. Have a guess how much it is to get in?
Funnily enough I went there a few months back. We got in on my mates student card. 10 chas & daves in a row on the jukebox and a few snakebites.
If you had put Aswad on it would have been a better shout but you can't argue with the snakebites!
Is that kebab shop next door or one down still there?
My office is now on the bit of land where the Greyhound was. Rumour has it that the landlord got wind that the site was being looked at for development and so bought the pub off whoever owned it at the time (previous owner oblivious to development inbound).Hope and Anchor in Whitefriars Street and the Greyhound in Much Park Street. Two boozers that got pulled down in the name of progress.
Fucking heart breaking!!!
Sounds like the guy who had the Hand & Heart in the mid 90's
Landlord was John Bradley, wife eve, lovely bacon sarnie after our Sunday game. Usually a win of course.
Hey WIngy, you didn't live in Emscote Rd did you?The Peacock was a well known pub in the 60's and 70's. Next door was the social security offices. Also on Monday mornings if you worked on the buildings, you'd get picked up outside the pub, and many signed on !
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