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[Sunny Villa]

Think of Glasgow and ITK

[KingstandingVilla]

Hello mate hope you're well. Last seen you Wembley...well Kilburn in the club behind the houses

[ez]

The Charlie is now is a bunch of maisonettes.
I can just imagine you now sfx412..pissed up and staggering through the gulley, on your way down Parkeston Cresent.

I used to do that, I grew up on Gainford

I lived on Langholm Drive for a few years.

[Sunny Villa]

. Yeah all good still stateside .my lad who was with me was over the Blues game
Hello mate hope you're well. Last seen you Wembley...well Kilburn in the club behind the houses

[KingstandingVilla]

hey pal, you still about ? ever get over for games now ?

[PeterWithe]

From reading the early part of this thread, The Beggars Bush was posh at one time, there were women in there?

And bloody hell, 15 years since Ashley Blake had the Oscott Tavern. I saw him not long ago.

[dave shelley]

My mate and his missus ran the Beggar's Bush back in the late seventies early eighties I think it was.

[KingstandingVilla]

My mate and his missus ran the Beggar's Bush back in the late seventies early eighties I think it was.

Before my time. I started using the pubs round there in 1989/1990 when I left school, prior to that I used to go to Ruskin Hall on game days and eves and have a few cheeky beers

[Somniloquism]

From reading the early part of this thread, The Beggars Bush was posh at one time, there were women in there?

And bloody hell, 15 years since Ashley Blake had the Oscott Tavern. I saw him not long ago.

Compared to some of the others on or bordering Kingstanding, definitely.

The "Charlie" was well named and although the 80's rebuild brought some respectability, the Kingstanding soon took on the King Charles clientele when that shut.

Still remember The Mount being on the mount. God knows how many tonnes of earth was removed when that was rebuilt at "sea level".

[PeterWithe]

I take it the Mount is what is now the Mexican place.?
The King Charles, I cant picture where that would have been as there are shops all around that junction.

[dave shelley]

I take it the Mount is what is now the Mexican place.?
The King Charles, I cant picture where that would have been as there are shops all around that junction.

As you approach along the King's Road from the Sutton direction, you come to a crossroads with Finchley Road on the left, cross the King's Road and that was where the Charlie stood on the right nearest to Kingstanding Circle.  My old pair met each other there for the first time.

[waringpongo]

This discussion takes me back to my early years. I left Kingstanding about 1976 aged 15. I remember a girl in my class at kingsrise juniors brother got killed playing chicken across the road from the Charlie when her parents were in the pub. I remember the mount on a hill so they must of moved a mountain to lower it and can't think why they would do that. We used to walk to Sutton Park over waste land by the Charlie and also we had the Pimple to play on. I got punched in the head a few times in Finchley Park. Happy memories.

[KingstandingVilla]

I take it the Mount is what is now the Mexican place.?
The King Charles, I cant picture where that would have been as there are shops all around that junction.

As you approach along the King's Road from the Sutton direction, you come to a crossroads with Finchley Road on the left, cross the King's Road and that was where the Charlie stood on the right nearest to Kingstanding Circle.  My old pair met each other there for the first time.

My dad was/ is a musician and him and a fellow musician played at the Charlie regulary, I was on a fishing trip in Northern Ireland and met a guy in a boozer in Bellaghy who lived in Kingstanding years before, and when I mentioned my dads name, straight away he said "guitar player and your moms named Shirley, tall with permed hair " only thing he got wrong was my moms name..small world at times, I couldnt buy a drink that night. This fella had took a shine to me as he knew me dad and bought my ale all night.

[Somniloquism]

I take it the Mount is what is now the Mexican place.?
The King Charles, I cant picture where that would have been as there are shops all around that junction.

The old folks home/ flats was it's replacement.

[dicedlam]

I take it the Mount is what is now the Mexican place.?
The King Charles, I cant picture where that would have been as there are shops all around that junction.

As you approach along the King's Road from the Sutton direction, you come to a crossroads with Finchley Road on the left, cross the King's Road and that was where the Charlie stood on the right nearest to Kingstanding Circle.  My old pair met each other there for the first time.

That's correct dave, the Charlie was on the corner of the kings rd and Hartley Rd. I think they built maisonettes on it. 
It was my regular from the mid-seventies up until I left the country. When I was a kid, my nan (who lived on Tottenham Crescent) used to send me to the Charlie outdoor to collect my grandads mild in the used Alpine pop bottles. You also used to get money back for any returns (which was a regular occurrence for my grandad after having a skin full in the pub).
IIRC, the gaffers name was Mac, a big irish guy.