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[Youri McAnespie]

Greenalls.

Another reason I probably liked it as I liked the advert at the time.

And The Brooklyn was Greenalls so they probably smelled similar. 😊

[Youri McAnespie]

The Higher Nags shut up shop in 1929.

Had their finger on the pulse with the name of The Lower Nags, then.

[MickyD]

Lower Nags was Magee Marshals. Hence the MM high up on the façade.

[MancWanderer]

Am I remembering correctly that the Lower Nags was underneath M&S or was it slightly further along.

Hated the place but we often started there. Foul keg bitter and that revolting Grunhalle

Only Greenall’s pub I willingly went to was Fannies when Frank owned it and Ian Greaves used to drink there. Rammed with 16 year olds supping copiously

[little whitt]

2 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I've asked these questions of a few older heads and never been given a satisfactory answer - The Lower Nags Head, my elder sister (two appleseeds on a lollystick) and her boyfriend used to take me in here when I was about six, never go to drink in it though...

A. Where was the Upper Nags Head and why was it non-existent (circa 1982/83)?

B. What became of The Lower Nags Head - I remember it was in a basement, so surely didn't become a shop?

C. What brewery was it? I'm sure I remember a Whitbread sign...

Anyway, I loved it in there - had a video jukebox, those afternoons spent in there (and with my old man at a similar age in The Sweet Green, Brooklyn or Bob's Smithy Inn) probably whet my whistle for my own escapades later on.

it was called Olivers  when I started supping 1987 

[little whitt]

just seen one of them homeless types with a sign at the lights 

homeless and hungray  on a bastard mobile 

[MickyD]

57 minutes ago, MancWanderer said:

Am I remembering correctly that the Lower Nags was underneath M&S or was it slightly further along.

Hated the place but we often started there. Foul keg bitter and that revolting Grunhalle

Only Greenall’s pub I willingly went to was Fannies when Frank owned it and Ian Greaves used to drink there. Rammed with 16 year olds supping copiously

M&S was at one end of the block, Burtons at the other with three shop fronts between. Centre was the entry to Lower Nags Head, another was Dunne &Co and can’t remember the third one. 

[Rudy]

1 minute ago, little whitt said:

just seen one of them homeless types with a sign at the lights 

homeless and hungray  on a bastard mobile 

Might be ordering a takeaway

[Rudy]

2 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Greenalls.

Another reason I probably liked it as I liked the advert at the time.

And The Brooklyn was Greenalls so they probably smelled similar. 😊

The Brooklyn shut now?

[dave2980]

Just now, Rudy’s Message said:

Might be ordering a takeaway

More likely to be on the phone to his dealer

[MancWanderer]

3 minutes ago, MickyD said:

M&S was at one end of the block, Burtons at the other with three shop fronts between. Centre was the entry to Lower Nags Head, another was Dunne &Co and can’t remember the third one. 

Of course!! I had in mind that M&S went all along the front but it didn’t it went all the way back up Mealhouse Lane. Cheers Micky yeah I remember those steps going down into the place

[Youri McAnespie]

1 minute ago, Rudy’s Message said:

The Brooklyn shut now?

Shut about eighteen months ago maybe two years even. 

Lord's College have it (rented)  now, but the same mate with the ivy conspiracy theory reckons that's just to put daylight between it being a pub in a wood and some millions spinning 'development'. 

[Youri McAnespie]

6 minutes ago, MickyD said:

M&S was at one end of the block, Burtons at the other with three shop fronts between. Centre was the entry to Lower Nags Head, another was Dunne &Co and can’t remember the third one. 

Was it an independent watch shop/jewellers? 

Or another old bloke shop? Greenwoods or a sensible shoe shop? 

Edited May 22, 2020 by Youri McAnespie

[Rudy]

2 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Shut about eighteen months ago maybe two years even. 

Lord's College have it (rented)  now, but the same mate with the ivy conspiracy theory reckons that's just to put daylight between it being a pub in a wood and some millions spinning 'development'. 

Kinell there’s not many boozers left round there then. Southfields? 
Shuttle on Highfield gone as well

[MickyD]

1 minute ago, Rudy’s Message said:

Kinell there’s not many boozers left round there then. Southfields? 
Shuttle on Highfield gone as well

Not much call for pubs in predominantly Muslim areas really.

pubs in non-Muslim areas are closing in their hundreds all over the country so what chances pub in an area where folk don’t support the business.

[Rudy]

Just now, MickyD said:

Not much call for pubs in predominantly Muslim areas really.

pubs in non-Muslim areas are closing in their hundreds all over the country so what chances pub in an area where folk don’t support the business.

Very true, plus the houses across the road from Southfields are very err err Muslim-esq. 

More Columns than Rome

[Youri McAnespie]

The (Duck and) Shuttle went ages ago, think it's a Costcutter now? 

Southfields does cheap pub food and that's kept them ticking over until now. 

Think the Walkers put a covenant on the land as various parties have applied to build on the tennis courts and bowling green but it's been denied and they're still there - dilapidated as fuck, but there. 

[Youri McAnespie]

4 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said:

Very true, plus the houses across the road from Southfields are very err err Muslim-esq. 

More Columns than Rome

There's an estate near Parkfield Road, I forget the name, anyhow they're those small 60/70s grey concrete council houses, used to have steel windows and a little cubbyhole for the bins, no fences and just a small strip of grass in front. 

Someones bought about three of them and knocked them through - stuck columns along the front. 

Looks like sommat done in Photoshop rather than reality. 

Edited May 22, 2020 by Youri McAnespie

[Zico]

2 hours ago, Casino said:

http://lostpubsofbolton.blogspot.com/2014/10/higher-nags-head-holdens-vaults.html

I always thought the beacon up rivi pike was built in relation to the Spanish armada

Seems not

[little whitt]

9 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said:

Very true, plus the houses across the road from Southfields are very err err Muslim-esq. 

More Columns than Rome

🤣🤣🤣

[Youri McAnespie]

57 minutes ago, little whitt said:

it was called Olivers  when I started supping 1987 

Hadn't they got delusions of grandeur and started serving food at that point? 

Sommat about basement bars, apart from Bergeracs ,  even though coke was my tipple in the nags - being very very underage. 

Used to go in Oscars as a young adult - mainly to rinse the Monopoly machine (ditto The Canary, The Hogshead, The Blue Boar, Arkwrights up Halliwell and the snooker room of the Crown and Flick) but I'd linger after I'd emptied the machine for the seedy atmosphere and cheapish and lethal pints of Lowenbraü. 

Always full of suited pisscans from The Wellsprings and elsewhere... 

[fatolive]

1 hour ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Was it an independent watch shop/jewellers? 

Or another old bloke shop? Greenwoods or a sensible shoe shop? 

Ciro citerio or something like that , or was that later 

[Youri McAnespie]

Think Dunne and Co. moved elsewhere (Market Place? ) and Ciro Citterio - outfitters to Ritzy clientele par excellence, moved in... 

[miamiwhite]

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

M&S was at one end of the block, Burtons at the other with three shop fronts between. Centre was the entry to Lower Nags Head, another was Dunne &Co and can’t remember the third one. 

Wasnt it Next ?

[miamiwhite]

6 minutes ago, fatolive said:

Ciro citerio or something like that , or was that later 

Ciro Citerio was originally above where Boots is now.