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Things you miss most about the 'old' Coventry? (1 Viewer)

  • Thread starter Gazolba
  • Start date Aug 2, 2016
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Gazolba

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  • Sep 28, 2016
  • #106
olderskyblue said:
Used to be a regular in the cellar bar of the Tally Ho. Great times really, whenever you went in there would be people you knew in there. <snip>l
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That name sounds familiar, where was it?
 
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covroy

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  • Sep 28, 2016
  • #107
Gazolba said:
That name sounds familiar, where was it?
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tally ho is now the tudor rose
 

Houchens Head

Fairly well known member from Malvern
  • Sep 28, 2016
  • #108
olderskyblue said:
Used to be a regular in the cellar bar of the Tally Ho. Great times really, whenever you went in there would be people you knew in there. Sometimes someone with a guitar would start playing, getting everyone singing (making a noise anyway) Even if you decided to hit a few different pubs, it would be the start of the crawl
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Snap OSB! I had a motorbike accident back in '69 and it made a small bit of news in the "Stop Press" of the Telegraph. I went down into the cellar bar that night to see all my old drinking buddies and they almost turned white! Chinese whispers had changed the story. Apparently I was killed after a head on smash and they were all gathered to have a drink in my memory! What a night THAT ended up as! :drool:
 
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olderskyblue

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  • Sep 28, 2016
  • #109
Houchens Head said:
Snap OSB! I had a motorbike accident back in '69 and it made a small bit of news in the "Stop Press" of the Telegraph. I went down into the cellar bar that night to see all my old drinking buddies and they almost turned white! Chinese whispers had changed the story. Apparently I was killed after a head on smash and they were all gathered to have a drink in my memory! What a night THAT ended up as! :drool:
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It was going well till you turned up houch :-;
 
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Malaka

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  • Sep 29, 2016
  • #110
Houchens Head said:
Snap OSB! I had a motorbike accident back in '69 and it made a small bit of news in the "Stop Press" of the Telegraph. I went down into the cellar bar that night to see all my old drinking buddies and they almost turned white! Chinese whispers had changed the story. Apparently I was killed after a head on smash and they were all gathered to have a drink in my memory! What a night THAT ended up as! :drool:
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Always fancied going to my own wake, I don't think anyone would be there LOL
 

olderskyblue

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  • Sep 29, 2016
  • #111
Houchens Head said:
Snap OSB! I had a motorbike accident back in '69 and it made a small bit of news in the "Stop Press" of the Telegraph. I went down into the cellar bar that night to see all my old drinking buddies and they almost turned white! Chinese whispers had changed the story. Apparently I was killed after a head on smash and they were all gathered to have a drink in my memory! What a night THAT ended up as! :drool:
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Actually, reminds me of a mate of a mate when I was 18 or so... He also had a motorcycle accident, and was "killed". He woke up on a slab in the morgue. Surprised quite a few people that did..
 
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ccfctommy

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  • Sep 29, 2016
  • #112
Grendel said:
It's ghastly, you will think I'm making this up but I'm not,

I had to meet some overseas guests at the motor museum. I parked in the open car park by the swimming pool. I was approached by some heroine addled creature begging for money.

After showing round the muses I decided to go for a drink, I went in a pub that is mock Tudor - was the Tally Ho? It was shit. In the pub I was propositioned for sex by someone who looked about 80 and weighed 80 stone. She wanted cash and asked to go to the Brittania hotel - I told her to fuck off.

Going back to the car park by the pay machine another beggar

We don't let overseas visitors book in coventry. It's dire.
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Beggars are a big problem here, especially in that car park. What was the pub out of interest?
 

ccfctommy

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  • Sep 29, 2016
  • #113
Oh the tudor rose! Of all the places Grendell!!!
 

no_loyalty

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  • Sep 29, 2016
  • #114
Back in the day Gosford street was great for a pub crawl, are there any pubs left there now?
 

clint van damme

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  • Sep 29, 2016
  • #115
no_loyalty said:
Back in the day Gosford street was great for a pub crawl, are there any pubs left there now?
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it's in the process of a make over. Most pubs gone though.
 

dutchman

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  • Sep 29, 2016
  • #116
no_loyalty said:
Back in the day Gosford street was great for a pub crawl, are there any pubs left there now?
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Just the two, the Colin Campbell and the Royal Oak or whatever they call themselves these days.

It wasn't just the pubs which disappeared from Gosford Street there was an incredible choice of cafés too!
 
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WiganSkyBlue

Member
  • Aug 26, 2018
  • #117
Remember a good old pub crawl into town from Earlsdon - start off at Wally's, the Earlsdon Cottage, then the Royal Oak followed by the City Arms. Up Earlsdon Ave Nth to the Clarence then into Chapelfields to trawl down Craven Street through the Chestnut and 3 others (two of which were next door to each other, I think). Out of Craven St into Allesley Old Rd int the Black Bull (I think, almost opposite Hearsall Lane). Stagger on to the Old Dyers Arms followed by the Summerfield Tavern and the Hen & Chickens on Queens Road. Then into town ……. or not!
 

dutchman

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  • Aug 26, 2018
  • #118
WiganSkyBlue said:
Remember a good old pub crawl into town from Earlsdon - start off at Wally's, the Earlsdon Cottage, then the Royal Oak followed by the City Arms. Up Earlsdon Ave Nth to the Clarence then into Chapelfields to trawl down Craven Street through the Chestnut and 3 others (two of which were next door to each other, I think).
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The Hearsall Inn and The Coombe Abbey Inn.

WiganSkyBlue said:
Out of Craven St into Allesley Old Rd int the Black Bull (I think, almost opposite Hearsall Lane).
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"Black Horse"
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Aug 26, 2018
  • #119
The hearsell is s great pub
 
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martcov

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  • Aug 28, 2018
  • #120
WiganSkyBlue said:
Remember a good old pub crawl into town from Earlsdon - start off at Wally's, the Earlsdon Cottage, then the Royal Oak followed by the City Arms. Up Earlsdon Ave Nth to the Clarence then into Chapelfields to trawl down Craven Street through the Chestnut and 3 others (two of which were next door to each other, I think). Out of Craven St into Allesley Old Rd int the Black Bull (I think, almost opposite Hearsall Lane). Stagger on to the Old Dyers Arms followed by the Summerfield Tavern and the Hen & Chickens on Queens Road. Then into town ……. or not!
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Never could have completed that... tried a few times though...
 
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martcov

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  • Aug 28, 2018
  • #121
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
The hearsell is s great pub
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Hearsall .... next to the Coombe Abbey... I spent a lot of time in the Chestnut Tree and the Nursey... my first beer was in the Craven Arms on the corner..
 
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