Originally Posted by BiscuitsAB

what pubs are still in town?

Greyhound, Nelson's, Dolphin and King's are still going as is Crown & Anchor/Tiff's. Choughs closed down a few months back and the G Spot went years ago.

The three choughs is gone, had my first pint of tanglefoot there the year it came out.

The story behind the Choughs, if it is indeed true, is that the landlord sold up some land to make flats, then the flat tennants complained about the noise of kicking out time (well, dur, don't move next to a fcuking pub then) hence the shut down.

Is the Railway still 24hour?

Originally Posted by chocolate_frog

The story behind the Choughs, if it is indeed true, is that the landlord sold up some land to make flats, then the flat tennants complained about the noise of kicking out time (well, dur, don't move next to a fcuking pub then) hence the shut down.

Is the Railway still 24hour?

Forgot about the Railway. I believe 24 hour opening still happens but not every night anymore due to complaints about noise.

Yeah the Landlord had stopped trying for years as all the squaddies just went there because you were told that's where everyone went. When they rebalanced the trades and there were no squaddies the locals wouldn't touch the place.

To be honest it had been a long time since the choughs had been anything like a decent pub so no great loss.

I Lori the little brummie fella with the glasses still in The Dolphin?

Originally Posted by BiscuitsAB

Yep. Bowling alley!!! fuck, we had the naffi bar with a couple of pool tables upstairs. 85 through to 89. Cook house was 20 yards from the block, sunday morning brunches after a heavy saturday night such things are memories made from.

Pool tables? They were snooker tables in my day. Septic rubbish, hrrmph. (Mumbles into pint of Badger).

Originally Posted by jimmys_best_mate

Greyhound, Nelson's, Dolphin and King's are still going as is Crown & Anchor/Tiff's. Choughs closed down a few months back and the G Spot went years ago.

What about the white heart, that was the first pub into town on the way down from camp.

I used to live in those old blocks just past the cookhouse Anson B Block rings a bell, I was Trials Troops School of Sigs. I used to wake up with bits of plaster that had fallen off the walls on my bed in the morning. I always remember the blocks emptying at lunchtime just as Neighbours had finished and everyone heading back to work.

I t hink the White Hart became the Damory Oak.

What was the name of that thatched pub out of the back of camp?

I used to run out the back gate, down to the pub, have a few and then run back up. It had a significant fire in the thatch but was renamed the Pheonix.

Originally Posted by Flaggie

Pool tables? They were snooker tables in my day. Septic rubbish, hrrmph. (Mumbles into pint of Badger).

my mistake they were snooker tables.

Originally Posted by chocolate_frog

I t hink the White Hart became the Damory Oak.

What was the name of that thatched pub out of the back of camp?

I used to run out the back gate, down to the pub, have a few and then run back up. It had a significant fire in the thatch but was renamed the Pheonix.

tarrant arms?