0ff Topic - Old pubs and clubs in Sunderland

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Just reading the opening post is slightly depressing. It's like losing a part of your youth hearing about all those great old pubs disappearing.
 
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Blunham Mackem said:
The Bush, an old bikers pub. Once played a pool match there and felt lucky just to lose the match!!
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I grew up round there, Suffolk St and Athol Road but I never felt it might be a good idea to venture into the place.

As youngsters we used to hang around outside on Saturday nights to watch the fights.
Some of those ladies were vicious.
 
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ADR66 said:
Is the Sunderland Catholic Club still there, I did a gig with my band there in the 70's
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Yes and NO.
As I understand it the Catholic Club folded no so very long ago.
It was bought and renamed and reopened.
THEN for some reason the old name and signage reappeared and it seems to be open again and is once more called The Sunderland Catholic Club.

AT the time you are talking about they used to queue up for the Saturday Night Dance.
The place was jumping.
Even downstairs where I used to go was packed.
 
You can add
The Metro ( downstairs opposite The Boulevarde )
The Londonderry - just closed but plans to re open as a restaurant
Sams Bar ( underneath the Continental)
Gillespies ( I think - bottom of Holmside opposite Joseph's )
The Ship Inn - top of high st west
The White House ( Villette Road )
The Jacobean Club
Annabel's
Fusion

Black Bull is now called Vesta Tilleys

Local estate pubs that have gone:
The Jovial Friar - Ford
The Oaks - Silksworth
The Sportsmans Arms - Silksworth
The Eagle - Pennywell
Ford and Hylton WMC
Earl Percy - Millfield

I think The Salem is now a house as is Earl Percy.

Many happy ( and some vague ) memories of most of them.
 
polyphemus said:
You can add to your list The Hendon Gardens and The Bush (top of Ward St) The Post Office Inn (later called The Winsor Castle) and I understand that The Salem is now boarded up.
It a long time since I was in the one at the top of Suffolk St, over the Road from Mainsforth Terrace, but it's now a Pharmacy. The Blue house seems still to be hanging on, just but The Hendon Grange is still there.
The Toll Bar was flattened for housing some years back. If you wanted a seat on Friday nights you had to be in by 7.30
None of this takes into account of the many little pubs that used to exist along Hendon Road or Tatham St.

I've done my best but there's a limit to how much one person can manage.
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Blue house has gone as well
 
Blunham Mackem said:
The Bush, an old bikers pub. Once played a pool match there and felt lucky just to lose the match!!
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Was knocking about with a lass who's brother was in the Angels. Went in with a really raggedy shirt and jeans and I was still the best dressed f*cker in there, Had some great nights in their kip in (think ) Harrogate street tho. Beer on tap, baseball bats on the wall for decoration.and a never ending supply of bob hope. Boy I enjoyed my youth.
 
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ADR66 said:
Is the Sunderland Catholic Club still there, I did a gig with my band there in the 70's
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Was in there once for a 70s fancy dress do but it coincided with a match, England v Egypt. Cannot remember if it was a qualifier, WC game or what but sitting in the bar downstairs in our garb and remember a bloke saying to the committee man " I wouldnt try selling any tickets to them two they look like right divi's" The cheeky c*nt.
 
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and the Round Robin I think.
Anything you wanted for your house, bricks, fascias, roof trusses windows, garage doors etc you could get from somebody in there very very cheaply.
 
Gil T Azell said:
and the Round Robin I think.
Anything you wanted for your house, bricks, fascias, roof trusses windows, garage doors etc you could get from somebody in there very very cheaply.
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Round Robin still going.

What was that pub over the road to the Mountain Daisy? Is that still there or is it metro lines now.
 
Palatine, Grand, Argo, Continental, Rose and Crown, Annabels, Rosedene, Saltgrass, Red Lions, yes a few, Roker H, Cliff, Blue Bell, Eagle, Wolsey, Duncans, Jamaica V, Clarendon, Bee Hive, Park Inn, Donkins, Top House, Ship Isis, Queens Arms, and of course The Bay Hotel, to name just a few of the top of my head, almost lived in some of these at one time or another,
 
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