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| Date: 2010-06-13 15:59:09 |
| Name: John Cordwell |
| Location: Wotton-under-Edge |
| Email: cordwell@clara.net |
| Comments: Hello Geoff
I have been asked by Wotton Heritage Centre to reissue my Wotton Pub Trail, which has been out of print for about 30 years.
I am updating the information now that there are more sources available such as online census returns, so I will let you know if I find anything new.
I also give an illustrated talk on Wotton's pubs.
Best wishes
John Cordwell |
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| Date: 2010-06-04 20:11:52 | | Name: Barbara Edmonds | | Location: Oxford | | Email: barbara.edmonds@gmail.com | | Comments: The Wagon & Horses, Hucclecote.
I have been reading about The Wagon & Horses, on your web site. It certainly brought back some memories.
My Mother worked there in the early 1960s. On my way home from school in Larkhay Road, I would often have to sit and wait in The Wagon and Horses kitchen, for my Mum to finish work.
My main interest though were the horses. I never got to actually go into the stables, but do recall seeing a gentleman , which I think was the owner or groom maybe. He sometimes would lunge the horses, on a field across the road from the pub.
For some reason I think his name was Mr Jones, but could be well wrong. Now reading your web page, I am wondering if these were race horses. Plus could my Grandmothers family, Speck, be connected to the Jockey that died at Cheltenham, riding one of The Wagon's horses.
I have some photo's of The Wagon and Horses, and staff, will find them out.
Barbara |
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| Date: 2010-06-04 19:46:47 | | Name: Barbara Edmonds | | Location: Oxford | | Email: barbara.edmonds@gmail.com | | Comments: I have been researching my partners family. Was amazed to find a distant cousin, Thomas Peart, was the Landlord of The Hewlett Inn, Cheltenham. 1891
My own Grandfather is also on your site, being the Landlord of The King William, Kingsholm, Gloucester, 1906.
If anyone has any information on either place, would love to hear.
Barbara |
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| Date: 2010-02-14 05:43:34 | | Name: Robert Dexter (Scott Lawrence). | | Location: Shrewsbury | | Email: bobdexter1970@yahoo.co.uk | | Comments: A fine record of Gloucester Pubs. As a Kingsholm boy, I can only recall the "City Centre"
establishments from the 1970's- present and am appalled at the changes and greed
of these uncaring companies. My grandparents were Ivor and Laura Jones, Stewards
at The Conservative Club. 1967-86 and previously at The Services Club. Many a night
has been had at live music venues throughout the eighties, inc.malt'n'Hops, British
Flag,The Pineholt , Tha Monks Bar
Can anyone remember an underground bar, inside the Eastgate Shopping Centre
1970's....maybe called the black cat?(It would be the downstairs of a sports shop now)
Would have quenched the thirst of many a market stall holder!!!!!
The Brunswick, had many names, SnOBS, with a nightclub upstairs, then Chaplins?
NO!!!! It's just come back to me..."The Man in the Bowler Hat"....Wahhheyyy......my brain
is working...LOL (Which boasted a Hot burger vending machine)
The Kings/Tabard had also become "Chaucers" in the mid.80's and true to that
period had Miami Vice cocktails and potted plants/pink curtains with neon lighting.
.......alas I leave this site a tad sad....at all the mismanagement , the loss of etched
glass windows.(Who steals these????Where are they? Did people really stand by
during refurbishments and just trash them in a skip????).......memories come flooding
back , which reminds me (S'cuse the pun), of The Longford Inn, hot summers sat
outside at flaking green painted metal tables, sipping bottles of Coca Cola with paper
straws, wasps and an aviary next to a huge see-saw (H&S must shit themselves these
days!!! LOL) and the poor old Malt'n'Hops.....I would sit outside under the vines(?) with
friends sipping at Southern Comfort and Lemonades till about 11.20 when the last of
the daylight trailed away in the sky............... see yers!!!!!! BOB xxxxxxx
I personally detest the new bars with brown leather sofas and coffee tables and find it
some comfort that after the twits that go in and rip out all period features, spend so
much money and go tits up a few weeks later.....just for some other berks to go in ,
spend the same again and repeat the process |
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