Anyone recognise the pub?

[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.

[splott parker]

He was on his uppers when he buggered off in Mike Baldwin's jag

[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 .

[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.

[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.

[old blue]

He was on his uppers when he buggered off in Mike Baldwin's jag

Yeah and ended up in Swansea (Twin Town)

[Taunton Blue Genie]

This is the backroom bar where the dart board used to be before they moved it to the front bar.

They moved the back bar to the front bar?

[Vimana.]

They moved the back bar to the front bar?

Ooof, I bet that was snug.

[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.

[William Treseder]

My nanna was a barmaid in the Lamb and flag in the late 60's / early 70's. Remember as a young kid, when the whole of Cowbridge Rd through Canton was completely flooded, (can't remember exact yr). My mum was watching the news at 10, and all of a sudden shouted out'" there's my mother on the tele!!!!"
There she was in a rowing boat getting a lift home from the pub.
**** knows where the boat came from and who was rowing it! Lol!

[ian gibson]

I remember canton being flooded in 79 I think it was, we were in the corp and the flood water almost reached there, cowbridge road was a lake.

[BLUETIT]

I remember canton being flooded in 79 I think it was, we were in the corp and the flood water almost reached there, cowbridge road was a lake.

Here you go:---

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2016-0.../:xmasthumbup:

What's that fella on about 1.50 think he's going to do with that brush.

He's in 2ft of water.

[William Treseder]

I remember canton being flooded in 79 I think it was, we were in the corp and the flood water almost reached there, cowbridge road was a lake.

Didn't realise it was 79, but memories sometimes play tricks on you. She lived in Kings Rd at the time. My nan are her brothers were stalwarts of every boozer in Canton!!

[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?