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Shocking news

Terry Naylor
Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
edited April 2009 in Not Sports Related
The halfway house (The Gallion?) to Margate are now flats!!!!

Sad sad sad

Did anyone ever drink in there?

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  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,915
    Yeap, I drove past it on Monday, and was really shocked.

    I thought that it would always stay a pub, but lets face it, who drives down to Margate now days!? It gets no passing trade anymore.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    I'm not surprised. That's the way things are going

    Yorkshire Gey = McDonalds
    Welcome Inn = Flats
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,001
    Is that the one thats in Only Fools and Horses? Where they're on the Jolly Boys Outing?
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Crossways - Burger King
    Castle - KFC
    Carpenters Arms - Next
    Man of Kent - Fire Station extention

    That's just Eltham!
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    not personally, but my dad used to stop there for a pint when we went for a day out to the Kent coast in the late '50's early 60's. Happy, happy days. From memory our car was a Standard Vanguard.
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,680
    Boozers closing down all over the place. Smoking ban/no money in the game/influx of immigrants etc Worryingly though, a Wetherspoon is about to open in Sidcup.
  • CAFCBourne
    CAFCBourne Posts: 3,791
    [cite]Posted By: stop shouting[/cite]Boozers closing down all over the place. Smoking ban/no money in the game/influx of immigrants etc Worryingly though, a Wetherspoon is about to open in Sidcup.

    Spoons the most boring non descript places on earth, i know they are cheap but why would you!!
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    [cite]Posted By: Plaaayer[/cite]Is that the one thats in Only Fools and Horses? Where they're on the Jolly Boys Outing?

    Yup, thats the one.
    Started to really decline when the (tory, spit!!) government put an end to "beano's" by banning alcohol on coach partys.
    Wasn't just us fotball "hooligans" who were banned from drinking, oh no, under that Bloody Woman....................
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    I went to Margate on stag in 2001 the boozer was rammed packed!

    Stoped there on the way back and there was a disco on loads of sorts!!!!
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    [cite]Posted By: CAFCBourne[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: stop shouting[/cite]Boozers closing down all over the place. Smoking ban/no money in the game/influx of immigrants etc Worryingly though, a Wetherspoon is about to open in Sidcup.

    Spoons the most boring non descript places on earth, i know they are cheap but why would you!!
    cheaper away days :)
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  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,915
    RSVP is Bexleyheath is closed too!!
  • F-Blocker
    F-Blocker Posts: 3,409
    [cite]Posted By: Chirpy Red[/cite]Crossways - Burger King
    Castle - KFC
    Carpenters Arms - Next
    Man of Kent - Fire Station extention

    That's just Eltham!
    Man of Kent was always owned by the fire brigade is my understanding.

    Re. the 'spoon in Sidcup - that's actually refitting & re-opening the Hogs Head.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,251
    Weatherspoons are shit no mark pubs. You have to wait ages for a drink even when there are only 2 other people in the entire place!

    Good place to go hoodie slapping though
  • Daggs
    Daggs Posts: 1,344
    [cite]Posted By: miserableold-ish git[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Plaaayer[/cite]Is that the one thats in Only Fools and Horses? Where they're on the Jolly Boys Outing?

    Yup, thats the one.
    Started to really decline when the (tory, spit!!) government put an end to "beano's" by banning alcohol on coach partys.
    Wasn't just us fotball "hooligans" who were banned from drinking, oh no, under that Bloody Woman....................

    I don't want to stop you slagging of a Government from about 25yrs ago. But it would be more accurate to say the Roman Galley (i think that's what it was called) Started to go downhill when the new dual-carriageway went in and left it somewhat stranded.
  • JVL
    JVL Posts: 284
    And what's happened to teh Welcome Inn on Well Hall Road, a couple of doors up from my dentists???

    You can tell I haven't had a check up for a bit.
  • C_f_W
    C_f_W Posts: 1,433
    edited April 2009
    [cite]Posted By: JVL[/cite]And what's happened to teh Welcome Inn on Well Hall Road, a couple of doors up from my dentists???

    You can tell I haven't had a check up for a bit.
    Finally bit the bullet totally - now flats. you can get as dewy eyeed about how great it was 20 years ago, by the time it was finally flattened it was really time to go
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,648
    [cite]Posted By: JVL[/cite]And what's happened to teh Welcome Inn on Well Hall Road, a couple of doors up from my dentists???

    You can tell I haven't had a check up for a bit.

    Been closed for a couple of years, planning permission was not granted for it to be turned into flats. Luckly it burnt down and planning was granted for flats to be built. ;-0)
  • JVL
    JVL Posts: 284
    There was an absolutely beautiful Victorian Thames Water pumping station building, on the Ravensbourne river (what Deptford Creek turns into) in Brookmill Park, on Brookmill Road just between St John's BR and Elverson Rd DLR stations, that I used to cycle past on my way to Deptford. Just stunning.

    That was mysteriously burnt down a few years ago and that hideous arts centre thing went up immediately.

    I always wondered how much those kids were paid to get rid of it, and also noted the mild irony of burning down a water works.

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