Re: Favourite pubs and clubs when you were young?
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the other bob wilson
No, this one was in the Wellfield Road kind of area, we used to walk there from the Crwys.
Wasn’t it the Wyvern Rd area, Cathays?
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splott parker
Wasn’t it the Wyvern Rd area, Cathays?
Woodville Rd, Next door to a Brothel.
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Tuerto
Woodville Rd, Next door to a Brothel.
That’s the one, Wellfield Rd is off Albany:xmasthumbup:
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splott parker
That’s the one, Wellfield Rd is off Albany:xmasthumbup:
Funny old road is Woodville, could really be something but it always seems a bit dead. Terrible when the students go home, Cathays is like a Holiday park in January. what the council allowed with the HMO's in that area is nothing short of scandalous. And i'm not knocking students by the way.
Re: Favourite pubs and clubs when you were young?
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the other bob wilson
Yes, that’s what it was called, a few of us from Companies House would stop off there in the mid eighties for a few hours on a Friday afternoon before a night out in town.
From memory Don Rolls was the steward there.
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jeepster
From memory Don Rolls was the steward there.
Whoever it was, he was fine with us - we stopped using it once the pubs opened up for the whole afternoon, but I would gladly have gone there again.
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Tuerto
Woodville Rd, Next door to a Brothel.
Yeah, I meant Woodville when I said Wellfield :xmashomer:
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the other bob wilson
Yeah, I meant Woodville when I said Wellfield :xmashomer:
Bit of ‘brothel deflecting’ perhaps:xmashehe:
Re: Favourite pubs and clubs when you were young?
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the other bob wilson
Whoever it was, he was fine with us - we stopped using it once the pubs opened up for the whole afternoon, but I would gladly have gone there again.
It had a late licence on a Saturday night, very handy after falling out of the Crwys
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Used to start my Friday night in the Greyhound. After a couple of pints of scrumpy I was anybody's
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The pennsylvania, Followed by The Retreat and finished off at The Murrayfield. A wholesome Evening of fun and togetherness,
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Tuerto
The pennsylvania, Followed by The Retreat and finished off at The Murrayfield. A wholesome Evening of fun and togetherness,
We had a version of QVC in Ely years before Sky
Police five would report on a lorry load of microwaves that had been hijacked in the week,, and you knew you could buy one in the Highfields on Friday
Re: Favourite pubs and clubs when you were young?
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olderblue
We had a version of QVC in Ely years before Sky
Police five would report on a lorry load of microwaves that had been hijacked in the week,, and you knew you could buy one in the Highfields on Friday
Bennetton the clothes shop got done over, late eighties. 40 fluorescent puffa jackets were stolen, Lime green, shocking pink etx, they were all the rage back then. You had to wear sunglasses in The Retreat for a month.
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olderblue
We had a version of QVC in Ely years before Sky
Police five would report on a lorry load of microwaves that had been hijacked in the week,, and you knew you could buy one in the Highfields on Friday
Do you recall the time that a lorry full of golf clubs broke down and it was emptied very quickly by the locals
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light up the darkness
Do you recall the time that a lorry full of golf clubs broke down and it was emptied very quickly by the locals
Just making the load lighter so it was easier to push
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light up the darkness
Do you recall the time that a lorry full of golf clubs broke down and it was emptied very quickly by the locals
That would be par for the course in Ely!