Coventry Pubs

There's a pub in Staverton near Cheltenham called 'The House in the Tree' but of course that isn't Coventry!

I asked my mother, aged 94, and nothing came to her mind immediately. She's going to mull the question over and talk to a friend who's into old Coventry history and see what they can shake loose in their memories.

The 40-Thieves/Busters Nightclub was like a cave inside if that's what you were thinking about?

No, wasn't Busters. That place was my third home during the 80s Second home being the Styvechale Arms. I reckon I must have got it mixed up with a pub I'd been in somewhere else, like Warwick or Kenilworth or even further afield.

All - the old Black Horse in Spon End will be demolished this weekend so get those final photos in while you can Pub History Link

I wonder if they will let me have the sign off the side??

I think the signs have already gone, Mick.

The Black Horse is no more. I know it's not been a pub for years but I'm delaying having to drive through there as it honestly feels like the heart has been ripped out of Spon End.

My great-grand uncle, John Lines (1843-1932), married Mary Jane Keene in 1972. She was a daughter of John and Mary Keene, who ran the Black Horse in the mid-1800s.

The one slight positive I'm hearing is that the pub sign is being passed on to the family of a former landlord.

As pub demolitions are the current 'hot' topic (!), another view of the Walsgrave Road White Lion coming down.

Pre-'elf 'n' safety! Not only the workers, but the public too!

Let's just hope it wasn't the former who ripped out a load of fixtures and fittings that allowed the pub to be removed from the listed building status!!