muddycoffee Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 Actually Tonkatoy's pubs website is an interesting source for me as he has some of the bars with short lived names which I missed from my own surveys. Keeping up to date across so many establishments is a truly enormous task. Especially in the town centre where bars can change their name and style very frequently. The most rewarding thing about running a website like this is when you find you have pictures of the same venue across a decade in several different colour schemes.
Texas Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 That's rather a tear jerkin' set of shots muddy. Actually the name 'Kelham Island Tavern' is good, it reminds me of a rolling mills joke ' Where are you going for your holidays?' (Answer) Kelham Island. The Wellington should've been called the 'Red House' and featured blues music. But I'm confused about the Manchester. It faced the river on Nursery Street, to it's right was the approach to Bridgehouses Goods Yard, the Harlequin was in another block on Johnson Street, yeah? The Acorn (Club 60) brings back memories.
Plain Talker Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 Looks like PT was not impressed! Well I have been working on my Neepsend section this weekend. http://www.thewookie.co.uk/pubs/neepsend.htm There is no substitute for legwork and taking your own photographs. Especially when the weather is a good as it has been today. no, TBH, I wasn't over-impressed at the quality. The odd mistake, is, IMO acceptable, but to be full of inaccuracies and errors I felt was not good at all.
Plain Talker Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 That's rather a tear jerkin' set of shots muddy. Actually the name 'Kelham Island Tavern' is good, it reminds me of a rolling mills joke ' Where are you going for your holidays?' (Answer) Kelham Island. The Wellington should've been called the 'Red House' and featured blues music. But I'm confused about the Manchester. It faced the river on Nursery Street, to it's right was the approach to Bridgehouses Goods Yard, the Harlequin was in another block on Johnson Street, yeah? The Acorn (Club 60) brings back memories. That's right, Texas, The Harlequin was round the back of the Wicker and the Manchester, in Johnson St, The manchester has now been renamed as The Harlequin, for some odd reason.
muddycoffee Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 The original Harlequin did look like a lovely pub in the old photo I have seen and had an interesting history. Unfortunately I never visited it while I had the chance. Can you give a more accurate description of where it was, as it is described as a riverside pub and at 26 johnson street. Was it at the other corner of Johnson street to the Manchester, or was it at the edge of the river ?
Plain Talker Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 The original Harlequin did look like a lovely pub in the old photo I have seen and had an interesting history. Unfortunately I never visited it while I had the chance. Can you give a more accurate description of where it was, as it is described as a riverside pub and at 26 johnson street. Was it at the other corner of Johnson street to the Manchester, or was it at the edge of the river ? I can only describe it from memory, as I used to go in there when I worked on the wicker shortly after leaving school. Do you remember the one-way street that ran behind the manchester, which linked up to the wicker? (the 47/48 used to run on it, before the ring road works) Well, the Harlequin was round the back of the Manchester, on that road, going back toward the Wicker. Despite the reports to the contrary, it was not in any way as close to the river as the Manchester is. It was an old-style spit-and-sawdust pub, very basic, very stark, thermoplastic tiles on the floor... it was small, but the food they did was very nice. I used to go in there for my lunch. edit to say just loked at a pre-ringroad map. the harlequin was probably at the junction of Johnson st with either stanley st or stanley lane (looking at this map here http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=53.38768,-1.46446|18|4&loc=GB:53.58283:-1.50653
cdtiman Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 If pt would have read the firt thred it states: Quote Preserve this information for posterity so that others can enjoy it :you should realise that its not supposed to be up to date its what they wrer not as they are in 2008.
cdtiman Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 muddycoffee as i said to tonkatoyyours is a good site as well:thumbsup:
Plain Talker Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 If pt would have read the firt thred it states: Quote Preserve this information for posterity so that others can enjoy it :you should realise that its not supposed to be up to date its what they wrer not as they are in 2008. not sure what a firt thred is, but In answer... So for posterity, then, pubs like the Vulcan or the Jervis Lumb never existed? Or it's a fact, then, that the Ye Olde arrow in "Brod" (sic) Lane is actually the Old Harrow at Gleadless Town End? There's up to date, and there's "accurate", cdt. (same lack of accuracy with the Harrows, as with the Devonshire Arms at Dore, and the DA at Eccy road)
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