Mundane facts about your day...

[Trumpet]

Tried to put on the new skirting board. Swore at the new skirting board, swore at the dogs, swore at the mitre saw, swore at the skirting boards again, opened a cider.

Cider, you can swear by it.

 

[staffordjas]

I believe it is open, not been in there in 20yrs though.... Sticky sticky carpets....

I used to go in regularly years ago , and always found it spooky. Always used to say I'd hate to be working there and left alone when all the customers had gone. Was surprised to see a light bulb on at one of the downstairs windows as I drove past yesterday.

 

[Glam]

If only we had a pub expert who could advise us.

Where are we going find one of those? Int any on this Forum.

 

[Thehooperman]

Where are we going find one of those? Int any on this Forum.

I do remember going in the Wagon in the 70s but can't remember who the landlord was or the name of the barmaid who served me. How can we find out this vital information?

 

[Glam]

I do remember going in the Wagon in the 70s but can't remember who the landlord was or the name of the barmaid who served me. How can we find out this vital information?

I work with the daughter of the current Landlord and his wife.

 

[Gramaisc]

I do remember going in the Wagon in the 70s but can't remember who the landlord was or the name of the barmaid who served me. How can we find out this vital information?

@darts22 might have info on the Waggon..?

The relevant page of his book is not available, unfortunately.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...ford north gate inns alehouses waggon&f=false

 

[Noah]

Been a while since @darts22 was on here.

 

[Gramaisc]

Been a while since @darts22 was on here.

He was here in August last year.

 

[Noah]

He was here in August last year.

So over a year ago?

 

[Gramaisc]

So over a year ago?

He had a couple of posts about the Crown & Anchor outbreak in Stone, his last posts before that were in 2018, when he was being harassed by a badger - maybe it got him?

 

[staffordjas]

I do remember going in the Wagon in the 70s but can't remember who the landlord was or the name of the barmaid who served me. How can we find out this vital information?

My main memories are preventing newly ' driving test passed" hubby to be, whacking his front end of his Avenger into another car whilst reversing on the Wagon carpark.

 

[littleme]

I used to go in regularly years ago , and always found it spooky. Always used to say I'd hate to be working there and left alone when all the customers had gone. Was surprised to see a light bulb on at one of the downstairs windows as I drove past yesterday.

I'll try to have a look next time I drive past during opening hours..... I always thought it spooky/scary too..... It was our last stop on the way home from town in the olden days before the Antelope closed

 

[proactive]

I'll try to have a look next time I drive past during opening hours..... I always thought it spooky/scary too..... It was our last stop on the way home from town in the olden days before the Antelope closed

Never found it spooky, just shite.

 

[staffordjas]

I'll try to have a look next time I drive past during opening hours..... I always thought it spooky/scary too..... It was our last stop on the way home from town in the olden days before the Antelope closed

My brother had his wedding reception in The Antelope. Think that was the first and last time I ventured into the Amtelope.

 

[BobClay]

I lose EVERYTHING! I have 4 tape measures in one toolbag and still can't find one!

Sometimes months, or even years later, you inadvertently find a missing tool all dusty and covered in cobwebs in some dark corner or under a chair or down the back of something. There's no doubt in my mind there's a dark malevolent demon who's sole task is to move things about and hide them in awkward places. One day I'll catch it at work, and show it how an entire toolbox filled with tools can be fitted into a small hole ....

 

[littleme]

My brother had his wedding reception in The Antelope. Think that was the first and last time I ventured into the Amtelope.

The Antelope was the last resort, literally! At the top of the Rd, easier to stagger home!

 

[Mudgie]

I do remember going in the Wagon in the 70s but can't remember who the landlord was or the name of the barmaid who served me. How can we find out this vital information?

It's not a pub I've often used, much preferring as I do the Coach and Horses, so I don't know who kept the Waggon and Horses in the 1970s but about fifteen years ago it was leased by a Mr Griffiths who clearing up on a Saturday or Sunday morning would find empty cans, from supermarkets, left by customers who only bought their first pint of the evening, so no surprise that it then closed for a year or so.
I do though remember a Bents Brewery sign on the pub in the 1970s.

 

[proactive]

It's not a pub I've often used, much preferring as I do the Coach and Horses, so I don't know who kept the Waggon and Horses in the 1970s but about fifteen years ago it was leased by a Mr Griffiths who clearing up on a Saturday or Sunday morning would find empty cans, from supermarkets, left by customers who only bought their first pint of the evening, so no surprise that it then closed for a year or so.
I do though remember a Bents Brewery sign on the pub in the 1970s.

If only you'd mentioned The Four Crosses you'd have the Holy Trinity of Stafford pubs.

 

[PeterD]

Is the mention of a pub like Candyman, mention a pub, a town where a pub might have been or a town where a pub would be quite good, as long as it was a "proper pub" say it and Mudgie appears talking about the old days.

 

[Mudgie]

If only you'd mentioned The Four Crosses you'd have the Holy Trinity of Stafford pubs.

I never used the Four Crosses much either - but with living not far away often used the Four Crosses at Hatherton including on my eighteenth birthday and New Year Eves, and about thirteen years ago when they had a "£1 menu"