mollag 366 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 A last one before I shoot orft on me travels, Fond memories of this Strand St favorite, The Globe, now the Post office I think. The New Strand alongside, often confused with the Old Strand, known also as "The Bullring" and "The Jamaica Inn" a black eye pub in my remembrance. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mollag 366 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Can you imagine a present day Pub having a window display like the Globe ? only fotees of banned folk I reckon. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shake me up Judy 5,197 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Yup, that's a beautiful frontage to The Globe. It looks more like a Harrogate tea shop ! Keep 'em coming Mollag and enjoy yer 'olidays 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Uhtred 9,990 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 46 minutes ago, Shake me up Judy said: Yup, that's a beautiful frontage to The Globe. It looks more like a Harrogate tea shop ! Keep 'em coming Mollag and enjoy yer 'olidays X2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mollag 366 Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Just popped this up in another place, has anyone had the pleasure of a beer in this Bar? Seems it was noted for it's tall barmen, in truth the bar side walkway was raised by a good foot. A little remembered hostelry, the Station Bar, better known as the "Buffet Bar, never was in for a drink but was to visit the dreaded VAT wallahs who inhabit the place now. With the decline of railway use, business reduced too far to keep operating. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Non-Believer 12,596 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 18 hours ago, mollag said: ..... to visit the dreaded VAT wallahs who inhabit the place now..... Are they still there? I remember being given the runaround between there and the then DOT desks in the Govt building on Prospect Hill. About 5 trips back and forward through Athol St in the pissing rain because neither desk knew how to deal with Import Duty that needed to be paid on a motorbike...simply in the name of trying to register it. F-cking clowns. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Donald Trumps 5,536 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 It is fun trying to track down a government department nowadays. Here's no reception & whenever you do enter a building to ask someone, none of them have a blinking clue Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neil Down 7,973 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 7 minutes ago, Donald Trumps said: It is fun trying to track down a government department nowadays. Here's no reception & whenever you do enter a building to ask someone, none of them have a blinking clue Corrected for accuracy 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shasto100 10 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Dogs Home Pub Mug - https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/759781489/manx-mug-dogs-home-pub 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
foxdaleliberationfront 595 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 This thread brings back some memories (or lack of)! The Dogs Home, what a place! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gettafa 6,542 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) 48 minutes ago, foxdaleliberationfront said: The Dogs Home, what a place! It was great a pub of course but so were many pubs back in the day. We hark back to The Dogs Home as the most memorable perhaps, but it's the pub culture generally that has died. Killed off by the six pack, a spliff or two and a Netflix account. Edited December 6, 2019 by gettafa Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NoTail 1,972 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 25 minutes ago, gettafa said: It was great a pub of course but so were many pubs back in the day. We hark back to The Dogs Home as the most memorable perhaps, but it's the pub culture generally that has died. Killed off by the six pack, a spliff or two and a Netflix account. + drink drive laws + smoking ban 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yootalkin2me 917 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 10 minutes ago, NoTail said: + drink drive laws + smoking ban I enjoyed my youth in proper pubs but can totally understand why people would want to stay at home and have a spliff or two along with a bottle or two of Becks....in the autumn and winter...but in the sprint and summer the same said people are missing out, they should have a spliff then head out into town and socialise. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gettafa 6,542 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 8 minutes ago, yootalkin2me said: I enjoyed my youth in proper pubs but can totally understand why people would want to stay at home and have a spliff or two along with a bottle or two of Becks....in the autumn and winter...but in the sprint and summer the same said people are missing out, they should have a spliff then head out into town and socialise. Socialise. Mmmm, ok. A generalisation of course but: There's nothing worse than having a night out when the pub suddenly becomes full with the drink at home mob, pre-loaded pissed up, who go out to the pub near the end of the night 'for the atmosphere' which they have not been a part of forming and who in effect have been slowly killing it off anyway. (Multiply that effect for the coke heads, they are a real pain in a pub atmosphere). The spliff heads are somewhere in between, but in any case usually on a different planet, but still in a world of their own. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Non-Believer 12,596 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 57 minutes ago, NoTail said: + drink drive laws + smoking ban Dogs Home disappeared long before the smoking ban. Killed off by having Marksies and Shoe Zone dropped on top of it. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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