Coventry Pubs

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I'm the webmaster for Real Ale Rambles. If you look earlier in this thread you will see that this forum and it's contributing members are freely acknowledged and thanked and that people providing photos are credited whenever possible (I do me best tha' knows). RAR is not a commercial site, we make no profits from it, we do it for the love of Coventry and it's rapidly disappearing pubs and buildings. We think the website is unique and will be the definitive guide to pubs and beer houses long after we've all supped our last pint. Having it all in one place for posterity has got to be a good thing hasn't it? If we have offended anyone or missed a creditation we humbly apologise, but here are a couple of points of interest; I have personally been in correspondence with 'Dreamtime' through this very boutique who has given some valuable information about the Navigation and her parents, which is great, and that's the whole idea. Please give us as much as you like, anecdotes especially welcome. The photos on RAR of the Navigation were taken/given to us recently by Paul Kennelly who used to play there regularly in 1968/69 as part of a band called 'Peppermint Kreem' and he has a wealth of photos from that time including shots after the fire all those years later. I will gladly forward any requests to Paul for copies from his scrapbook. I'm crawling this thread as I write to further complete our fantastic website. Our next venture along the same lines will be a record of all the brewers. I hope you'll take the time to have a look at RAR some rainy afternoon and maybe contribute something. Cheers...

I think it was a common thing back in the day for sailors to take on a pub when they retired. they would often name their pubs after their commanding officers by way of tribute

It was on Hertford Street, see here

As there are 30 odd pages to this post, this may have been linked before re a hair fashion parade at the Navigation

So glad to see that the Town Wall Tavern is still with us though the car park round it when I knew it has now disappeared and the landscape changed so much. But the Tavern is still there!! It used to be fun sitting in there with Roman soldiers or cavaliers or whoever was taking a break from their role in the Belgrade that day

Hi all During the eighties & early nineties, Mrs or Ms Wheatly was the landlady of the Stag & Pheasant pub in Lockhurst Lane Foleshill. Her lunches & dinners I consider ranked among the best in Coventry. So much so, that when I knew that I would be working in Foleshill all week, & if Pam was away, I often bought a weekly dinner ticket. £15 for a dinner, drink & pudding for five days or I think £20 for seven. Yummy.

Dreamtime is this you dancing link is Pete Waterman bands Coventry at the Navigation Inn scroll down a little. LINK

Hi Morgana, What an interesting link. Not one of my nights there, it does look like as if that was a little later into the 60's. So many bands did the rounds of the pubs in those days who went on to greater fame. The big room, as we used to call it looks so familiar. Thanks for that.

You're welcome Dreamtime

Hi all. Does anyone have any photos of the Bulls Head pub in the 1980's-1990's please, inside and out? Thank you.

Hi love-thy-label, and welcome to our forum We currently seem to have only one photo of the outside of The Bulls Head pub, and you will find that here in the Coventry Pubs topic. If you type "Bulls Head" into the search box at the top, you will get lots of references listed in a whole range of topics Mods note: this topic may be moved to the Coventry Pubs thread in due course

Reading previous posts about The Navigation pub on Stoney Stanton Road and that no many photo's of it exist if any.Well here is film of the inside of it,Its a hairdressing parade of local woman and their hairstyles the film is from 1957 The navigation pub

What happened to the Hen & Chickens pub in the Butts