Redtucks Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Sad news for the many that eat and drink there pre-match. http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Blaze-destroys-Dovecote-pub-near-Bristol-road/story-21293658-detail/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmax Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 And us locals MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Sad news for the many that eat and drink there pre-match. http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Blaze-destroys-Dovecote-pub-near-Bristol-road/story-21293658-detail/story.html ....it was a lovely pub - a great shame. With all the pub closures and now this, Bristol must only have about half the pubs it had 30 odd years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 very sad, lovely stead and kidney pudding last time I visited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolskRed Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 very sad, lovely stead and kidney pudding last time I visited Thought he went to Huddersfield but obviously not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tts_city Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 very sad, lovely stead and kidney pudding last time I visited What ? he isnt at huddersfield anymore ? a bit to good for pie filling, could still do a job in league one imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 RIP Jon Stead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRaw Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 RIP Jon Stead I assume thats Rest In Pie....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid in the Riot Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Terrible food and delayed my commute into work by 20 mins. But sad for a lovely 17th Century building and glad no one was hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Peacock Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It's like boats - unlucky to change the name.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Cyril Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Not had a lot of luck that pub.....under water in the winter and under flames in the summer. Hope it kept the insurance premiums up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Was a good place to take customers prior to taking them to the gate for a game..... been around a long time... real shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myol'man Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It's like boats - unlucky to change the name.............. Ah yes, The Smyth Arms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippy273 Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It's like boats - unlucky to change the name.............. A name you'll remember in a good or bad way so you won't forget. RIP The Smyth Arms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Bad news this. Lovely old pub, decent food & a real gem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1ackbird Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 The waggon before that wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 One of the pubs I used right back in the old First Division days. 15 years later went on to become one of the only child friendly pubs ( a novelty then but too many these days!!) I could find when the children were young. Excellent Christmas Dinner 18 months ago, even though getting in was tricky through the flooded car park. Real shame, a great old country pub - not completely to my taste in it's most recent incarnation perhaps - and hopefully it'll rise again from the ashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It's like boats - unlucky to change the name.............. It's also unlucky to name a boat 'Bristol City' - two boats of that name were torpedoed by German U boats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Cyril Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It's also unlucky to name a boat 'Bristol City' - two boats of that name were torpedoed by German U boats. And we all know what them Germans did to the Bristol City chippy in 1941... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 And we all know what them Germans did to the Bristol City chippy in 1941... ...and they bombed the main two tier Grandstands that were later rebuilt as the Dolman Stand and Williams Stand. What did Bristol City ever do to Herr Adolf Hitler and the German people to deserve that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTFiGO!?! Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It's also unlucky to name a boat 'Bristol City' -Cockney rhyming slang? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTFiGO!?! Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 What did Bristol City ever do to Herr Adolf Hitler and the German people to deserve that?Hitler was a deluded, yet prowed, maniac. My guess would be that he ordered his bombers to leave Eastville alone, as he saw them as one of his own, but to specifically target 'the teds' as he'd harboured a life long resentment about our superiority. Interestingly, Churchill was determined to issue gas masks to the British public as he could see the potential of a Hitler gas attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Used to be the first pub outside Bristol and closed half an hour later on Saturdays. Cue mass rush of drunken motorists looking for a last pint... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modmuffin Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 I used to work there back when i was young, it was the smyth arms "Harvester"then My first job shame to see the place destroyed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busterrimes Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It was a favoured lunchtime haunt for a few of my teachers when I was at Ashton Park School. You could see them rushing over the school grounds to get there. I used to go there quite a lot when I lived in Ashton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modmuffin Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It was a favoured lunchtime haunt for a few of my teachers when I was at Ashton Park School. You could see them rushing over the school grounds to get there. I used to go there quite a lot when I lived in Ashton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modmuffin Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 yes thats right...i served my old teachers on many a friday afternoon, they could sink a few in a hour!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Hitler was a deluded, yet prowed, maniac. My guess would be that he ordered his bombers to leave Eastville alone, as he saw them as one of his own, but to specifically target 'the teds' as he'd harboured a life long resentment about our superiority. Interestingly, Churchill was determined to issue gas masks to the British public as he could see the potential of a Hitler gas attack. Didn't Herr Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe drop a huge bomb known as a 'Satan' somewhere near Eastville - but it failed to detonate? Anyway, Ashton Gate was bombed but the Germans missed Billy Wedlock's pub but the lowlife traitors of the Bristol Council agreed for the Wedlock's pub to be destroyed a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted June 26, 2014 Admin Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 It was a favoured lunchtime haunt for a few of my teachers when I was at Ashton Park School. You could see them rushing over the school grounds to get there. I used to go there quite a lot when I lived in Ashton I used to go in there with the teachers, they let me get on with it when they realised I was a lost cause Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bs3 Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Used to be the first pub outside Bristol and closed half an hour later on Saturdays. Cue mass rush of drunken motorists looking for a last pint... Was it half hour on a Sunday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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