Sigma said:
The Lynton Tavern (my poor local!
) when it was The Crossbow, although I was banned from there rather quickly as I was underage.
The "outdoor" at The Trumpet (now the Radford Bank Inn of course) which was like a little off license. Also, the raft races they used to hold in the summer, which were great fun.
I used to work in the Crossbow. Got sent home to change my new cardigan that I was wearing one night as ' Major Carey' didn't like it ! Do you remember the cocktail bar,especially for 'the elite customers'
He got me to make my first ever Irish Coffee for one of the customers and nearly had a fit when I got the cream nicely floating on the top.....then I stirred it up!
I remember that little outdoor and the raft races at the Trumpet. I also remember going in there to buy my first drink of alcohol in a pub. I didn't know what to order and not wanting to draw attention to the fact that I was underage,I wanted to act as though I knew what I was buying. I looked behind the bar,saw a bottle of 'Pale Ale' and asked for that. It was bloody horrible but I still drank it.
We used to walk to Ingestre Hall ,from Weeping Cross & back,to see Medicine Head etc playing there.
Anyone remember the big old derelict houses on Wildwood? One where the Co-op is now and one at the top of Radford Bank,by Weeping Cross junction. We used to play in them and the one on Weeping Cross was reported to have been used for Black Magic rituals and a dead chicken had been found inside. When we went in there were the black magic markings on the floor. Very Spooky
)They had just started to build the houses on Wildwood 1 and there was just fields down to the river behind the old houses . Can't remember the Barn, but I know the one house had one of those big sweeping staircases inside,and downstairs were what must have been the servants quarters. We had great fun inside ,after climbing in through a broken window. We didn't realise at the time how dangerous it really was. The stairs weren't safe and we could have broken ours necks. Although my dad would have killed me himself if he had known where I was!
