Anyone recognise the pub?

[the other bob wilson]

It must be either 37 or 38 years to the day that I went to the Old Hope pub on North Road for a lunchtime Christmas drink with a group of colleagues from Companies House. As the statute of limitations has probably run out on the crime now, I feel reasonably safe in admitting that it was me who knicked the metal tray that the landlady served us a round with that day.

I fell in love with that tray the first time I saw it, because it had the name of every Brains pub around at the time. There must have been at least a hundred names on there and it became my ambition to have a pint in all of them - I think I made it to about 80 per cent of them.

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I've just watched a programme on IPlayer about Christmas records from the 80s and included in it was this video - always preferred the Yazoo version myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX2LuPw0VwI

which was shot in a pub which Sara Cox called something like the Parrot and Whippet, but I noticed that the beer pumps had the Brains Dragon on them.

Now, I'm fairly sure that this is one of the twenty per cent of Brains pubs I never visited, because I can't recognise it (just for a second or two, I thought it might actually have been the bar in the Hope, but it's much too big) - any one recognise it?

[TH63]

I had a quick google and apparently a pub called the dragon in splott, which is no longer there.
Bluetit in 5,4,3....

[ian gibson]

It's The Napier

[BLUETIT]

I had a quick google and apparently a pub called the dragon in splott, which is no longer there.
Bluetit in 5,4,3....

Just finished preparing the veg and on the vodka's

[the other bob wilson]

I had a quick google and apparently a pub called the dragon in splott, which is no longer there.
Bluetit in 5,4,3....

Don't think I ever went there - I went on a proper pub crawl in Splott about twenty years ago, I suppose I might have got in there if it was still open then.

I've been doing some research and came across a thread where someone claims it's this pub in south east London;-

http://www.thecolbyarms.com/gallery/

it looks like it, but there's no evidence of Brains Beer being sold there in those pictures that I can see.

[ian gibson]

Brian Hibbard, the bloke who formed the flying pickets, is a Cardiff lad, hence the Napier being used for the vid.

[BLUETIT]

Brian Hibbard, the bloke who formed the flying pickets, is a Cardiff lad, hence the Napier being used for the vid.

I take it you think it's The Napier

He used to live in Canton/Poncanna as well

[splott parker]

I take it you think it's The Napier

He used to live in Canton/Poncanna as well

Brian was a valleys boy, lived in Florence St, off Carlisle St when in Coronation St

[Leftofcenter]

Brian Hibbard, the bloke who formed the flying pickets, is a Cardiff lad, hence the Napier being used for the vid.

Brian Hibbard from Ebbw Vale?

[BLUETIT]

I would hazard a guess at "The Custom House" or "The Tudor"

Only guesses though, but I played darts all over Cardiff and can't recognize that bar, but I think I've got pi$$ed in there so it's docks area I think.

[ian gibson]

It's definitely the Napier, I used to play darts for the pub and I remember them saying about the video being filmed there.

[the other bob wilson]

It's definitely the Napier, I used to play darts for the pub and I remember them saying about the video being filmed there.

I used to get in the Napier in the early eighties and can't remember it looking like that - if anything, it reminds me of the Lamb and Flag on Cowbridge Road, but I don't think it is.

[ian gibson]

FFS IT'S THE NAPIER.

[BLUETIT]

FFS IT'S THE NAPIER.

Door & dartboard are in the wrong place for the Napier, I THINK

[Michael Morris]

I used to get in the Napier in the early eighties and can't remember it looking like that - if anything, it reminds me of the Lamb and Flag on Cowbridge Road, but I don't think it is.

I may have mentioned it in here (a long time ago) but I went in the lamb and flag many many years ago and got a pint of dark. As I was drinking it I was told I wasn't allowed to watch the porno that was on the tv as I wasn't 18. No problem with having a beer though. (I would have been 16 or 17)

also used to play snooker in the jubilee club after school sometimes. Didn't have a problem getting a pint there either and we'd still have our uniforms on.

[the other bob wilson]

I would hazard a guess at "The Custom House" or "The Tudor"

Only guesses though, but I played darts all over Cardiff and can't recognize that bar, but I think I've got pi$$ed in there so it's docks area I think.

It does look quite like the Custom House - now that was a pub !

[poc]

It does look quite like the Custom House - now that was a pub !

class the custom house loved the place

[ian gibson]

class the custom house loved the place

Great pub, as was the whitehouse (Glastonbury) you could go in there on a Friday night and stay until Sunday the back door in the lane was always open and Howard was always serving beer at any hour.

[splott parker]

I may have mentioned it in here (a long time ago) but I went in the lamb and flag many many years ago and got a pint of dark. As I was drinking it I was told I wasn't allowed to watch the porno that was on the tv as I wasn't 18. No problem with having a beer though. (I would have been 16 or 17)

also used to play snooker in the jubilee club after school sometimes. Didn't have a problem getting a pint there either and we'd still have our uniforms on.

We used the Lamb after playing for Taffs Well in the 70s, the landlord(bit of a character, long hair, dressed like an unmade bed), he used to roll up ripped off bits of beer mat into pellet shapes and fire them around the bar with an air rifle, crazy times.

[ian gibson]

Got banned from the lamb 36 years ago, bastards.

[jeepster]

Got banned from the lamb 36 years ago, bastards.

FCUK you must have done a bad thing

[ian gibson]

FCUK you must have done a bad thing

Rather not say .

[Taunton Blue Genie]

It must be either 37 or 38 years to the day that I went to the Old Hope pub on North Road for a lunchtime Christmas drink with a group of colleagues from Companies House. As the statute of limitations has probably run out on the crime now, I feel reasonably safe in admitting that it was me who knicked the metal tray that the landlady served us a round with that day.

I fell in love with that tray the first time I saw it, because it had the name of every Brains pub around at the time. There must have been at least a hundred names on there and it became my ambition to have a pint in all of them - I think I made it to about 80 per cent of them.

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I've just watched a programme on IPlayer about Christmas records from the 80s and included in it was this video - always preferred the Yazoo version myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX2LuPw0VwI

which was shot in a pub which Sara Cox called something like the Parrot and Whippet, but I noticed that the beer pumps had the Brains Dragon on them.

Now, I'm fairly sure that this is one of the twenty per cent of Brains pubs I never visited, because I can't recognise it (just for a second or two, I thought it might actually have been the bar in the Hope, but it's much too big) - any one recognise it?

Normal people fall in love with the barmaid.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Is this Bob you. Bob?

[the other bob wilson]

Is this Bob you. Bob?

I'd forgotten all about him - that was all his act consisted of if I remember rightly.