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Anyone recognise the pub?
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?
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I had a quick google and apparently a pub called the dragon in splott, which is no longer there.
Bluetit in 5,4,3....
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I would hazard a guess at "The Custom House" or "The Tudor" :shrug:
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.
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It's definitely the Napier, I used to play darts for the pub and I remember them saying about the video being filmed there.
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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....
:xmashehe::xmashehe::xmashehe:
Just finished preparing the veg and on the vodka's :xmaswave:
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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....
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.
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Brian Hibbard, the bloke who formed the flying pickets, is a Cardiff lad, hence the Napier being used for the vid.
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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.
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.
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ian gibson
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 :xmashehe::xmashehe:
He used to live in Canton/Poncanna as well :xmasthumbup:
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BLUETIT
I would hazard a guess at "The Custom House" or "The Tudor" :shrug:
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 :xmashehe:!
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FFS :hehe: IT'S THE NAPIER.
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ian gibson
FFS :hehe: IT'S THE NAPIER.
Door & dartboard are in the wrong place for the Napier, I THINK :xmashehe::xmashehe:
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This is the backroom bar where the dart board used to be before they moved it to the front bar.
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ian gibson
This is the backroom bar where the dart board used to be before they moved it to the front bar.
Quite possible, as the Napier were shit at darts, so didn't play there for years and when I did the dartboard was in the front bar. :xmasthumbup:
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BLUETIT
Quite possible, as the Napier were shit at darts, so didn't play there for years and when I did the dartboard was in the front bar. :xmasthumbup:
Oi cheeky fecker :hehe: We (the napier) won the Cardiff city mixed darts league back in the eighties.
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ian gibson
Oi cheeky fecker :hehe: We (the napier) won the Cardiff city mixed darts league back in the eighties.
As I said, they were shit, I am talking about the peak times, late 60's/70's.
Tavi, were the top team followed by some shitty hole in Ely.
Then you had Dai Lowrey's mob who traveled from pub to pub every season. :xmaswave:
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BLUETIT
As I said, they were shit, I am talking about the peak times, late 60's/70's.
Tavi, were the top team followed by some shitty hole in Ely.
Then you had Dai Lowrey's mob who traveled from pub to pub every season. :xmaswave:
That shitty hole in Ely was the Highfields and they ruled the roost in the seventies along with the Fairwater pub.
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ian gibson
That shitty hole in Ely was the Highfields and they ruled the roost in the seventies along with the Fairwater pub.
DID THEY BOLLOX :xmashehe::xmashehe:
We were playing there one night and some loony ran into the bar and chucked an AXE at the landlord. :xmashehe::xmashehe:
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Sounds like a regular night in the 'H' :hehe:
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BLUETIT
DID THEY BOLLOX :xmashehe::xmashehe:
We were playing there one night and some loony ran into the bar and chucked an AXE at the landlord. :xmashehe::xmashehe:
Most probably going for the doubles
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BLUETIT
I take it you think it's The Napier :xmashehe::xmashehe:
He used to live in Canton/Poncanna as well :xmasthumbup:
Brian was a valleys boy, lived in Florence St, off Carlisle St when in Coronation St:xmashehe:
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ian gibson
Sounds like a regular night in the 'H' :hehe:
Got a better one than that, one Saturday, sat playing cards in the GROSVENOR (in Splott) all of a sudden the landlords son (Alfie Trask), fires two frigging barrels of a shotgun off through the window.
Apparently he had a grievance against one of the Silver brothers and was aiming at him :xmashehe::xmashehe:
Frigging great days.
PS:-- No one said a word when Mr Plod turned up.
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splott parker
Brian was a valleys boy, lived in Florence St, off Carlisle St when in Coronation St:xmashehe:
Yes Ebbw vale originally, spent many years in Cardiff though.
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ian gibson
Yes Ebbw vale originally, spent many years in Cardiff though.
Ya, PONTCANNA when the £'s started rolling in.
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the other bob wilson
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.
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He was on his uppers when he buggered off in Mike Baldwin's jag
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Michael Morris
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.
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Got banned from the lamb 36 years ago, bastards.
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ian gibson
Got banned from the lamb 36 years ago, bastards.
FCUK you must have done a bad thing:xmashehe:
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jeepster
FCUK you must have done a bad thing:xmashehe:
Rather not say :hehe:.
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the other bob wilson
It does look quite like the Custom House - now that was a pub :xmashehe:!
class the custom house :thumbup: loved the place
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poc
class the custom house :thumbup: loved the place
Great pub, as was the whitehouse (Glastonbury) you could go in there on a Friday night and stay until Sunday :hehe: the back door in the lane was always open and Howard was always serving beer at any hour.
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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?
Normal people fall in love with the barmaid.
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splott parker
He was on his uppers when he buggered off in Mike Baldwin's jag
Yeah and ended up in Swansea (Twin Town)
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ian gibson
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?
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Taunton Blue Genie
They moved the back bar to the front bar?
Ooof, I bet that was snug.
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Taunton Blue Genie
I'd forgotten all about him :xmashehe: - that was all his act consisted of if I remember rightly.
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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!