Pub memories

[lisa_lomas]

Forgive me for butting in on the conversation.
Does anyone remember the big lion that used to lie in the garden of the Welcome Stranger pub in Sedlescome Road North? I think it was probably made of fibreglass.
I spent many a happy hour playing on and around that as a kid with my cousins in the late 70's/early 80's and I wondered if anyone knew anything about it, where it came from and where it went etc? and why on earth was it there?

[AlanStagGriffiths]

The Crown Inn - unfortunately closed it's doors in April this year. he present owners are rejigging the building and the bar areas may reopen as a bar/restaurant/bistro.

[Callum0804]

Hi. Does anybody have any memories of a pub called the pied piper around 78 79/80 the landlord worked for the daily mirror as a printer his wife ran the pub with the help of their son ( name also escapes me) but he did the DJing and looked like an adult version of the devil boy in the omen

[Geoff]

Hi. Does anybody have any memories of a pub called the pied piper around 78 79/80?

The name Pied Piper doesn't ring any bells with me. I can't find any mention of it on David Russell's website either.

[Gerry Glyde]

Name rings a bell. Somewhere around town centre I think.

[Jules382]

The Pied Piper was renamed The Manor, but I can't remember exactly when, guessing at the 80's/90's. The Manor has now closed and was at the junction of St Mary's Road and Manor Road

[Callum0804]

Yeah thanks everyone. I did remember the said landlord his wife and devil son relocated to the duke of Wellington in islington. But yes jules it was on the corner of manor road It's amazing how very few people remember it and that there is NO mention of it anywhere It was my local when I was 17 as I lived two doors away.

[Gerry Glyde]

17?
You would now have to produce a id if you look under 25!

[Callum0804]

In the 70s mate we were all in pubs at 14 onwards 25p for a pint of mild, be rude not to haha ......... Scallywags did not care either , in fact I don't remember a pub or club that did really ..

[Gerry Glyde]

My first on my own was on a bike ride to Rye and back. Stopped at Robin Hood at Icklesham and remember that I asked for 'a pint of beer' rather than lager or bitter etc.........and they still served me. The good old days