Pubs in Birmingham - Man United (a)

[dave.woodhall]

Damo, the flats are where the old snooker club used to be , probably 100m further up the A45 adjacent to the Bp.
What a place for flats ! Landlocked either side of the A45 next to a petrol station . Nice .

The new inn is a block away from the old swan site.
I'm sure the Aero (old prefab building) went early 90's .

Good to see you have your finger on the pulse mate 

Agree about the location of the flats. I have no recollection whatsoever of the snooker club. I didn't realise about The Swan. When was it knocked down? Late eighties? The bloke I knew who had an interest in the old Aero had it in the nineties so he probably had it just before it went. It would have been around '96/'97 when I went in there and he had it to the best of my recollection. It was an old prefab thing as you say.

The Swan must have been converted into Ansell's offices with a small lounge remaining in the mid-eighties, then they were gone by about 1991.

[silhillvilla]

I remember around 86, The Swan was the place to be seen.
If you weren't dressed appropriately or looked under age you weren't passing the bouncers.

[Virgil Caine]

Didn't The Swan at Yardley advertise itself as the largest pub in Europe or of having the longest Bar in Britain or some-such?

[dave.woodhall]

Didn't The Swan at Yardley advertise itself as the largest pub in Europe or of having the longest Bar in Britain or some-such?

Biggest pub in Europe.

[silhillvilla]

Didn't The Swan at Yardley advertise itself as the largest pub in Europe or of having the longest Bar in Britain or some-such?

Longest bar by linear metre.  Guinness book of records

[Damo70]

I remember around 86, The Swan was the place to be seen.
If you weren't dressed appropriately or looked under age you weren't passing the bouncers.

That would have been when my old gaffer had it. They used to have a lot of Wet T-Shirt Competitions. I know because he was still showing off his collection of pictures of girls with eighties hairstyles, wet 'The Swan At Yardley' T-shirts and no bras ten years later. Either that or they had one wet T-shirt competition on one occasion and took a hell of a lot of pictures.

[silhillvilla]

Bloody hell, wet t-shirt competitions ! The very epitome of late 80'' Britain.

[conman]

yeah them flats were futher up the cov road from the wagon and horses/aldi
they were half built for years after some firm went bust or something
and yes in the mid 80s the swan and the new inn were a few minutes walk away and both open at the same time

[conman]

another old one on the cov road
the malt shovel ,,,,top of muntz street where the number 8 crosses

[Damo70]

another old one on the cov road
the malt shovel ,,,,top of muntz street where the number 8 crosses

I used to go in The Malt Shovel at lunchtimes in around 2001/2002. The gaffer was an Asian guy called Steve. There always used to be a group of old West Indian guys playing dominoes and slamming them down so hard it made you jump.

[rob_bridge]

The snooker club was called The Triangle.
Used to go there when we were 14/15/16.
Always remember they did rounds of toast and butter at about 5p a go.

The Triangle.  I'd forgotten all about that place. I think it was used in one of the episodes of Give Us a Break which starred Paul McGann back in mid 80s.

It was Aldi that replaced Wagon and Horses.


Has the Malt Shovel gone now.

[silhillvilla]

Straddling the Sheldon / Marston Green border there was a pub by the park, was it The Bell Inn ? Not sure that's still there anymore either

[dave.woodhall]

Straddling the Sheldon / Marston Green border there was a pub by the park, was it The Bell Inn ? Not sure that's still there anymore either

Turned into a Thai and I think it's closed now.

[silhillvilla]

Straddling the Sheldon / Marston Green border there was a pub by the park, was it The Bell Inn ? Not sure that's still there anymore either

Turned into a Thai and I think it's closed now.

Shame, I guess the location didn't help.
Pretty sure the pub on common lane (George V) used to be The Chlemsley ? No idea why that name though as you'd think Chelmsley Wood would be more appropriate a location.

[Nev]

Straddling the Sheldon / Marston Green border there was a pub by the park, was it The Bell Inn ? Not sure that's still there anymore either

Turned into a Thai and I think it's closed now.

Shame, I guess the location didn't help.
Pretty sure the pub on common lane (George V) used to be The Chlemsley ? No idea why that name though as you'd think Chelmsley Wood would be more appropriate a location.

It did and The Cornerstone and Red Rooster at one time.

Does anyone know if The King of Bohemia has survived the cull? It was on a side road just off Sheldon Heath Rd.