Did Ronnie Bird used to run The Romilly?
Mrs daughter about to start working behind the bar..
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Mrs daughter about to start working behind the bar..
Yes
Before that , Canton Cross
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Yes and the Custom House before that - Ronnie was a top bloke who always kept a good pint. Does anyone know which ex footballer and member of Southampton’s FA Cup winning team in 1976 took over as a relief landlord at the Romilly when Ronnie went on holiday one year?
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the other bob wilson
Yes and the Custom House before that - Ronnie was a top bloke who always kept a good pint. Does anyone know which ex footballer and member of Southampton’s FA Cup winning team in 1976 took over as a relief landlord at the Romilly when Ronnie went on holiday one year?
I never knew that he was landlord of the Custom House?
I knew he was landlord of the pub opposite the old ice-rink (Golden Cross?).
As kids in Llandaff North, we would knock on the door of his modest semi-detached and ask him for his autograph. He was always happy to oblige, in fairness.
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the other bob wilson
Yes and the Custom House before that - Ronnie was a top bloke who always kept a good pint. Does anyone know which ex footballer and member of Southampton’s FA Cup winning team in 1976 took over as a relief landlord at the Romilly when Ronnie went on holiday one year?
Peter Rodriguez (spelling?).
I think he had family in the Cardiff area, so that's why I chose him?
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Yes
Before that , Canton Cross
Who are you calling ****,****?
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Peter Rodriguez (spelling?).
I think he had family in the Cardiff area, so that's why I chose him?
Peter Rodrigues, from Docks family but he was a Llanrumney boy. His Uncle Johnny had The Boar’s Head, just a bit further down Leckwith Rd than the Canton Cross.
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Peter Rodriguez (spelling?).
I think he had family in the Cardiff area, so that's why I chose him?
Apologies, my memory of Cardiff pubs has gone to pot in the years since I stopped drinking - Ronnie was the landlord of the Golden Cross, not the Custom House.
As a kid, Peter Rodrigues lived a few hundred yards from the Romilly, but it's not him - this bloke had no connection with Cardiff apart from playing here for Southampton a few times..
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the other bob wilson
Yes and the Custom House before that - Ronnie was a top bloke who always kept a good pint. Does anyone know which ex footballer and member of Southampton’s FA Cup winning team in 1976 took over as a relief landlord at the Romilly when Ronnie went on holiday one year?
On one of our mini-breaks, in the Cotswolds, me and the Mrs had a quality night (and later), drinking with the landlord of a pub in Moreton-in- Marsh.
He played in that team, but can’t remember his name, wonder if it’s the same fella.
Part of me, seems to remember him as a short, stocky, midfielder/winger (but this was in my Stella drinking days :hehe:) god knows what time we got out of there, it was pointless going to bed :hehe:
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On one of our mini-breaks, in the Cotswolds, me and the Mrs had a quality night (and later), drinking with the landlord of a pub in Moreton-in- Marsh.
He played in that team, but can’t remember his name, wonder if it’s the same fella.
Part of me, seems to remember him as a short, stocky, midfielder/winger (but this was in my Stella drinking days :hehe:) god knows what time we got out of there, it was pointless going to bed :hehe:
Don’t ask me how, but just asked the Mrs and she said his name was Jimmy Steele, just looked him up and she was spot on
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the other bob wilson
Yes and the Custom House before that - Ronnie was a top bloke who always kept a good pint. Does anyone know which ex footballer and member of Southampton’s FA Cup winning team in 1976 took over as a relief landlord at the Romilly when Ronnie went on holiday one year?
got to guess peter rodrigues
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got to guess peter rodrigues
Have you read the thread? :hehe:
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BLUETIT
Don’t ask me how, but just asked the Mrs and she said his name was Jimmy Steele, just looked him up and she was spot on
Well done to your Mrs, Jim Steele it was. I seem to remember him saying he'd worked a lot in the west country when we had a chat with him in the Romilly (this would have been about twenty years ago I'd guess) - he was a centreback, hard bastard as I remember it.
His Wikipedia entry mentions the pub in Moreton In Marsh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steele_(footballer)
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Have you read the thread? :hehe:
thanks :facepalm: im going back to try and workout spotify:hehe:
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the other bob wilson
Apologies, my memory of Cardiff pubs has gone to pot in the years since I stopped drinking - Ronnie was the landlord of the Golden Cross, not the Custom House.
As a kid, Peter Rodrigues lived a few hundred yards from the Romilly, but it's not him - this bloke had no connection with Cardiff apart from playing here for Southampton a few times..
? The Peter Rodrigues who we sold to Leicester and eventually captained Southampton to a Cup Final win is definitely a Cardiff boy, ex Ball Road scholar.
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? The Peter Rodrigues who we sold to Leicester and eventually captained Southampton to a Cup Final win is definitely a Cardiff boy, ex Ball Road scholar.
I think you may be misreading what I said Mr Parker.
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the other bob wilson
I think you may be misreading what I said Mr Parker.
I’m confused... who had no connection to Cardiff apart from playing here for Southampton a few times?
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splott parker
I’m confused... who had no connection to Cardiff apart from playing here for Southampton a few times?
Jim Steele.
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- Kafka has entered the chat :hehe:
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- Kafka has entered the chat :hehe:
What a Metamorphosis!
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splott parker
? The Peter Rodrigues who we sold to Leicester and eventually captained Southampton to a Cup Final win is definitely a Cardiff boy, ex Ball Road scholar.
He was indeed had a plaque on the wall somewhere at Llanrumney University Of Life
