Nostalgia - What are your memories of Stafford?

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cookie_monster

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Biggin said:
The firkin was the the forrester and firkin and the sheridan but not sure if it had any other names in between. Sheridan was of course known as one of stafford's famous playwrights, however, he was born in Dublin and did represent stafford as an MP. but I'm sure if he was alive today, he would want to be an honourary staffordian, like meself.
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it was also the wig and pen for a time.

the sun aka o'neills aka the sun (again!)

faces aka newt and cucember aka litten tree.

the noahs ark aka the surgery

whats the hops called now, im sure thats changed its name.


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Andreas Rex

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cookie_monster said:
whats the hops called now, im sure thats changed its name.
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Tis The Island now. Been there a few times since it's changed names, but there never seems to be anyone there!
 
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oops, i missed the most infamous of them all!

top of the world, the colosseum (including fatty arbuckles and the other name the down stairs bit got for a while) through to zanzibar.....affectionately known as the bag.


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Didn't the Shrewsbury Arms turn into a Mexican restaurant or something a few years back? I don't remember cos it's when i was living in London, but i'm sure i've heard people mention it..
 
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Andreas Rex said:
Didn't the Shrewsbury Arms turn into a Mexican restaurant or something a few years back?
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blimming heck, yeah- id forgotten about that.

muchachos or something like that....i think they painted the outside purple.

i used to like the shrew.


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cookie_monster said:
top of the world, the colosseum (including fatty arbuckles and the other name the down stairs bit got for a while) through to zanzibar.....affectionately known as the bag.
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don't pretend you remember when it was "top o' the world"!! honestly, you're desperate to be old before your time..

what the hell was the downstairs bit called after fatty's burned down and it reopened? i'm sure you went to the opening night, cookie.. that boxer-cum-DJ was there.. wassisname..
 
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dirtybobby said:
don't pretend you remember when it was "top o' the world"!! honestly, you're desperate to be old before your time..

what the hell was the downstairs bit called after fatty's burned down and it reopened?
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i dont remember it being top of the world....i meant infamous as in thats probably the place that has had the most name changes and facelifts in stafford. jeez, bobby, i dont want to feel any older than i already am! :angry:

i think the downstairs bit was called club zeus or something like that...im sure it was something to do with the colosseum connection.


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cookie_monster said:
dirtybobby said:
i'm sure you went to the opening night, cookie.. that boxer-cum-DJ was there.. wassisname..
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no.

i was probably too old. :rolleyes:


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i'm sure you did.. it was called "Indigo" i think, and as andreas says Nigel Benn was DJing on the opening night..
 
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dirtybobby said:
i'm sure you did.. it was called "Indigo" i think, and as andreas says Nigel Benn was DJing on the opening night..
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im fairly sure i didnt.

indigo? was that the night that took over after the demise of swoon? now that was a good night out!


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max powers said:
Go onto you tube and search for (stafford northern soul). Some great footage from Top of The World 1983.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTaa0rj0qY

Good find! Skill point awarded.

Sales of Talcum Powder must have been huge in the eighties.
 
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Downstairs club zeus thingy place was called Twenty's about 20 years ago.
It was full of TV screens

Forester/sheridan/wig was called Dappers post Sheridan pre Wig i think.

How about Pitchers Tavern?
Dougals and a twiddley diddley Irish bar beginning with O'
 
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rich upsetter

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as mentioned on another thread, joxers used to be called the chains. my dad remembers going in there (must be 30 odd years ago) when the gallery used to be the court and he said all the crims and lawyers used to drink together in there.
 
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TENSHON said:
I stumbled across this pic and thought it was Wayne Manor for a minute. It is in fact the old Coton Hill Alysum on the site of the Stafford District Hospital on the Weston Road. Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as The institution for the Insane of Staffordshire and the Adjacent Counties. The hospital was built in a Tudor style and features included its own chapel, cinema and dance hall, sports facilities, gardens, orchards for growing fruit and vegetables and farm. The building remained until 1976 when, apart from the chapel and the lodges, it was demolished and the new District General Hospital was built on the site.
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age'd parent, going by your personal details, do you remember this place?

It was only on researching the old archives that I found the building once existed.
 
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TENSHON said:
who remembers 'isabel the locomotive' that was located by victoria park until 1980.
[url]http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4118/isabelrw8.jpg[/url]
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1984 was the year she went...

Wow! I remember climbing on Isabel when I was really little! :D (I have a good memory)
Was sad that it got taken away and wondered what had become of her. Glad she got restored :D

http://www.amertonrailway.co.uk/amertonlocoisabel.htm
 
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Rie said:
TENSHON said:
who remembers 'isabel the locomotive' that was located by victoria park until 1980.
[url]http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4118/isabelrw8.jpg[/url]
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1984 was the year she went...

Wow! I remember climbing on Isabel when I was really little! :D (I have a good memory)
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you can't possibly remember, surely?? if she really was taken away in 84, that's less than a year after you were born.. you would have barely been crawling, let alone climbing on things! and i doubt you'd remember much from that age either :strange:
 
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dirtybobby said:
Rie said:
TENSHON said:
who remembers 'isabel the locomotive' that was located by victoria park until 1980.
[url]http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4118/isabelrw8.jpg[/url]
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1984 was the year she went...

Wow! I remember climbing on Isabel when I was really little! :D (I have a good memory)
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you can't possibly remember, surely?? if she really was taken away in 84, that's less than a year after you were born.. you would have barely been crawling, let alone climbing on things! and i doubt you'd remember much from that age either :strange:
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It's one of my earliest memories :P
My mum used to take me there and it's something that's stuck on my mind, as my much-loved granddad was a train enthusiast
 
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