Old public house

[Eccoray]

What was the pub called at the bottom of Granville Road,Queens Road,and St Marys Road.It was not The Truro,or The Royal Standard.It was brick pub,and has been gone for a long time now.It's just one of those names that we cannot remember.

[depoix]

What was the pub called at the bottom of Granville Road,Queens Road,and St Marys Road.It was not The Truro,or The Royal Standard.It was brick pub,and has been gone for a long time now.It's just one of those names that we cannot remember.

not sure,was it the vine?

 

i know it was hit by a runaway bus many years ago,my dad worked on rebuilding it, there is a thread on here somewhere about it,but it was ages back

[Eccoray]

It was smashed into as you say,and I have been in the pub.Its one of those things,that as we get older,and the mates in the pub get older,that we cannot remember.Been pas a thousand time as a kid,and a grown up,but it has gone from the memory banks.I know it,but???

[Zaytsev]

not sure,was it the vine?

 

i know it was hit by a runaway bus many years ago,my dad worked on rebuilding it, there is a thread on here somewhere about it,but it was ages back

 

The one at the very bottom was called the Montgomery Hotel.

 

It was a single storey building having had it's upper floors blown off in the blitz.

 

A bus did indeed crash into it.

 

How do I know this... I lived there between 1969 and 1971 at the grand old age of 5, my mum and dad were the landlord and landlady.

 

I would love a picture if anyone has one.

[Fareast]

Bombed in the Blitz ? Lorries crashing into it ? I suppose a punch up would be the least of your fears in THAT pub !

[the_rudeboy]

I would love a picture if anyone has one.

We were only talking about this pub at work the other week. Afraid we couldn't turn up a piccy though.

[Zaytsev]

Bombed in the Blitz ? Lorries crashing into it ? I suppose a punch up would be the least of your fears in THAT pub !

 

Not at all the frequent punch ups on the cobbles outside on any given Friday or Saturday night was a joy to behold for a 5 year old.

[Eccoray]

FYTC...Did your mom and dad move from Colley Ave to the pub?.If they did it was my mom and dad that they had moved with from Galsworthy Rd,and I used to call in the pub to see them when you were small.

[ricky36]

it was not a bus that crashed into it it was in fact a lorry that belonged to a company on Denby street Joseph Smiths was the name of the company. and the driver was killed

[Zaytsev]

FYTC...Did your mom and dad move from Colley Ave to the pub?.If they did it was my mom and dad that they had moved with from Galsworthy Rd,and I used to call in the pub to see them when you were small.

 

Yes it is. They took the pub over from my my dads cousin Terry. I was born on Galsworthy Road.

 

Please PM me with more details.