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Offline ADVILLAFAN

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #270 on: September 21, 2023, 12:48:07 PM »
You've lost me with the Rat Pan. Must have closed before I was going.

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #271 on: September 21, 2023, 12:55:43 PM »
Think it opened up again fairly recently before swiftly shutting again.


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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #272 on: September 21, 2023, 12:56:50 PM »
https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=39244.0

The Aston Tavern when I first started going down  in 88.

Then a guy I worked with at VP suggested we start drinking in the Upper Grounds as it was closer.

I still shiver thinking about that place - colloquially known as the rat pan - NICE

They even gave us 'honourary memberships' because we worked on the gates.

Offline Des Little

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #273 on: September 21, 2023, 12:56:54 PM »
I’d love it if all this pissing the fans off the Villa are doing led to viable business cases for re-opening the old boozers near the ground. You’d think the club might even be interested in the Aston Hotel and the Rat Pan.
The Brittania , if I had some backing I'd lob to open that again.
And the The Swan & Mitre.
Beautiful buildings that will be gone forever

Hope not but sadly I think you’re right.

Not forgetting the Eddies.  That was a great boozer too.

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #274 on: September 21, 2023, 12:59:56 PM »



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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #275 on: September 21, 2023, 01:17:26 PM »



never been in that one , i take it thats long gone

Offline Mister E

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #276 on: September 21, 2023, 01:21:08 PM »



Yup. Used to go in there pre-match in the seventies.

Online London Villan

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #277 on: September 21, 2023, 01:42:47 PM »
It hasn't changed much on the outside - it's now some sort of event venue. Must have been shut for at least 10 years?

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #278 on: September 21, 2023, 01:59:35 PM »
There used to be a pub half way up Witton Road on the left hand side which I can't remember the name of now. It's been closed for years now. From memory, it wasn't terrible.

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #279 on: September 21, 2023, 02:12:37 PM »

Offline Chris Harte

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #280 on: September 21, 2023, 05:57:22 PM »
Have some memories of being in the Ratpan with my dad as a kid (I believe so, anyway, looking at the photos of the place)

Typed the Ratpan into Google and came across this photo. Some great flags, there! Deportivo La Coruna away in 93 I reckon:




It is Deportivo. A young me was in amongst that lot. Really, thirty years ago? Bleedin'ell!

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #281 on: September 21, 2023, 06:22:10 PM »
There used to be a pub half way up Witton Road on the left hand side which I can't remember the name of now. It's been closed for years now. From memory, it wasn't terrible.
Guild Arms ?

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #282 on: September 29, 2023, 12:14:45 AM »
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Offline Three Spires Villa

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #283 on: September 29, 2023, 04:53:27 PM »
There used to be a pub half way up Witton Road on the left hand side which I can't remember the name of now. It's been closed for years now. From memory, it wasn't terrible.
Guild Arms ?

Yes The Guild Arms, just up from the Sacred Heart

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Re: The Holte Suite
« Reply #284 on: September 29, 2023, 05:47:39 PM »
I'm confused. I've gone through the posts on here and am still not sure what changes there are in The Holte Suite / Lower Grounds, other than refurbishment and a change in name (not even sure if I'm right about that. Can someone summarise the changes for me. i used to arrive, show my ST and pay a small fee to get in. Is that not the case any more? Sorry if I've missed something.

 


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