When I worked in the City I used to drink at a pub on the corner of Steelhouse Lane and Newton street. Forget its name but I knew it as 'Gilhooleys' (Sp?) Anyone recall it?Many a Friday evening I have flown home in a partial haze from the bar there. I've not used a pub for some twenty odd years now and clubs, I guess some thirty. The prices they began charging together with my growing older decided me a glass at home was just as refereshing. Sad ain't I.
Phil,Pubs and hospitals serve much the same purpose. What do you say?
na hospitals patch you up after you been in the pub. like the meadway.and some bods throw you through the window
Roy,If there was one thing I was able to do well, it was drink not a thing to brag I know but who amongst us does not have issues in their past they are not proud of. I have frequented pubs in the city centre, I have frequented pubs in the suburbs, I have drank in night clubs, working mens clubs, drinkers and shebeens. In fact I have drank everywhere and anywhere you could buy a drink.That being said my first pint cost me 1/1d and it was in the Sportsman, Saltley Rd, Neachells and it was bloody awful, but I soon acquired a taste for it. I remember going to the Bowling Alley & Ice rink not long after it opened and my mates played bowling while I stood at one of the little side bars and drank a measure of everything on the price list from top to bottom and because I still felt sober I restarted at the bottom working my way up.Everything was great until I got outside into Edgbaston Street. I must have fell in love with the pavement, because the next thing I knew I was flat on my face kissing it. Such happy memories.Phil
Saves using the door. The Meadway used to be a good pub my grandad used it now and again, I followed him when old enough or big enough to see over the bar.
PeteI used the Meadway for a time around 82-83 and I drank in the bar and I never saw the slightest sign of trouble in there. Yes it was a bit of a rough pub,but so were many of the pubs I used so perhaps I was used to it.
Pete.I think a lot of pubs closed not for the lack of customers but for the ever growing number of smackheads.
phil. before i moved here to wales.i lived across from that pub. it got so bad they shut it up. shame as you say it was a good pub.