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mickw nuneaton	558 of 1703 Tue 29th Oct 2013 8:00pm Hi Midland Red thanks for the photo`s although rather upsetting to see the place like this it still brings back happy memories. In photo 1 the tree in the foreground was paid for by my father in law Pete Gilbert the landlord at the time as the old tree was in a dangerous state, he did this when the pub was renovated in the mid 70s. ps did you take the photographs today?
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Midland Red Thread starter	559 of 1703 Tue 29th Oct 2013 8:11pm Yes, this afternoon
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PhiliPamInCoventry Holbrooks	560 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 8:54am Hi all I never ever thought as a child growing up in Wyken, that I would witness the closure of pubs, anywhere, leave alone substantial & large pubs like the Grange.
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Midland Red Thread starter	561 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 9:11am Hi Philip Many of those still open are "eateries", as we experienced last Friday with a fellow forum member - The Styvechale Arms now being The Styvechale Harvester
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mickw nuneaton	562 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 9:59am Hi all yes I agree there`s not many real pubs left with old school landlords that's why people used to go to pubs for the banter with the landlord
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Mick Strong Coventry	563 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 12:58pm Am I correct in thinking that at one time all of the M&B pubs in Coventry had their own bowling green? Mick Strong
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mickw nuneaton	564 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 1:31pm Hi Mick that's very interesting I know the Walsgrave had one may still be there and the Rose and Crown further down the road and pubs like the Wallace, Pilot and Devonshire Arms all have large car parks at the rear which could have been bowling greens. Oh dear I`ll have to start visiting all these old M&B pubs to find out if its true about the bowling greens!!! Anyone want to help me
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Beesman Cornwall	565 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 1:53pm Hi Philip, I know what you mean about pubs closing. Years ago it just didn't happen. In actual fact when I was a youngster attending Ravensdale School, I remember a pub being built on a piece of waste ground that me and my pals used to play on, namely The Painted Lady on Longfellow Road. I guess this must have been around 1965/66.
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Midland Red Thread starter	566 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 2:39pm On 30th Oct 2013 1:31pm, mickw said: Hi Mick that's very interesting I know the Walsgrave had one may still be there and the Rose and Crown further down the road and pubs like the Wallace, Pilot and Devonshire Arms all have large car parks at the rear which could have been bowling greens. Oh dear I`ll have to start visiting all these old M&B pubs to find out if its true about the bowling greens!!! Anyone want to help me Certainly the Walsgrave still has bowling - the up and over sort (crown green)
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mickw nuneaton	567 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 3:03pm Hi MR I remember the green at the Rose and Crown, as a child my dad used to take me there to watch the bowling, I looked to the pop and crisps
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Wearethemods Aberdeenshire	568 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 3:14pm There used to be a Bowling Green at the rear of the Maudslay on the Allesley Old Road. I'm sure that was an M&B Pub too. I don't think there was one at the 'Bowling Green' pub in Spon Street though! (Maybe Dutchman will know)
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mickw nuneaton	569 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 3:49pm Nice one Wearethemods, just thought of two more, The Bulls Head, Binley Road, and The Holyhead, all of similar design, small parking area to front, very large area to rear. I would have thought that there were not many cars around in the days these pubs were built. I think The Grange had a green many years ago, it had a massive garden which had a toilet block and covered seating area, but that was an Ansells pub
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dutchman Spon End	570 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 3:52pm There was a bowling green some distance behind the original pub of that name. It became separated from the pub when the latter was rebuilt in 1959 and is now just a lawn on the corner of Windsor Street and Wellington Gardens. I always thought rebuilding the pub was a mistake and its eventual closure suggests I was right. Witness to the Gerry Raid of "Moonlight Sonata" (Kaga Simpson)
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mickw nuneaton	571 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 7:26pm Another one bites the dust, just read about the Leg and Cramp (the Chestnut) in Walsgrave closed down and to become flats. Owned by the same company as the Grange!!!!!!
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Mick Strong Coventry	572 of 1703 Wed 30th Oct 2013 7:58pm On 30th Oct 2013 3:49pm, mickw said: Nice one Wearethemods, just thought of two more, The Bulls Head, Binley Road, and The Holyhead, all of similar design, small parking area to front, very large area to rear. I would have thought that there were not many cars around in the days these pubs were built. I think The Grange had a green many years ago, it had a massive garden which had a toilet block and covered seating area, but that was an Ansells pub The Bell in Tile Hill village certainly had one years ago, I remember a little pavilion on the right of it. As you say, now a big car park. Mick Strong
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