| The Swan is closing 17:05 - Sep 10 with 11384 views | jasondozzell |
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Hope someone rescues it. [Post edited 10 Sep 17:06]
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| The Swan is closing on 19:02 - Sep 10 with 1777 views | Dubtractor |
| The Swan is closing on 18:55 - Sep 10 by GlasgowBlue |
I've had a beer or two in there with Warky1970, Bojk and Burer. Sitters may have been there but it was that long ago he was probably in the garden with a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps whilst the grown ups were drinking. |
I had a beer with Burer in there too.
Back in the days where had a few forum meet ups. |  |
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| The Swan is closing on 19:08 - Sep 10 with 1755 views | GlasgowBlue |
| The Swan is closing on 19:02 - Sep 10 by Dubtractor |
I had a beer with Burer in there too.
Back in the days where had a few forum meet ups. |
Yeah met loads of TWTDers in pubs back then. People with different views were more civil to each other back then.
Speaking of which I introduced Metal Hacker to Mach Foreign Blue at Old Trafford the week before last. He hasn't mellowed. |  |
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| The Swan is closing on 19:25 - Sep 10 with 1708 views | HairBearBunch |
| The Swan is closing on 17:33 - Sep 10 by Blue_Heath |
The latter three were staples back in my drinking days. |
What, like before the building behind the Churchmans ? I never knew that ... |  | | |
| The Swan is closing on 20:05 - Sep 10 with 1620 views | You_Bloo_Right |
Last time I was in The Swan, admittedly some years ago, it must have taken me 5 minutes to walk from the front door to the bar - every step required strenuous effort to unstick each foot from the carpet. |  |
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| The Swan is closing on 20:38 - Sep 10 with 1565 views | WeWereZombies |
| The Swan is closing on 18:44 - Sep 10 by Dubtractor |
The toilets used to be pretty grim in there tbh. The company evidently wasn't much better. |
Well thank you very much...Actually in the early 1970s the all Irish public bar was quite forbidding but the rest of us with our long hair and greatcoats in the saloon were pretty lively. Only pub I've been in where I have ended up sitting next to an archaeologist who was working on, I think, what was to become the underground car park and he said 'here, look at this' and unfolded a piece of cloth containing a centuries old skull - a bit like yours but without the blond wig. |  |
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| The Swan is closing on 21:11 - Sep 10 with 1505 views | BlueBadger |
| The Swan is closing on 18:20 - Sep 10 by Mullet |
I met Dub in there once. The toilets smelled. I didn’t go back. |
What was the deal breaker? Dubbers or the bogs? |  |
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| The Swan is closing on 21:12 - Sep 10 with 1503 views | BlueBadger |
| The Swan is closing on 18:55 - Sep 10 by GlasgowBlue |
I've had a beer or two in there with Warky1970, Bojk and Burer. Sitters may have been there but it was that long ago he was probably in the garden with a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps whilst the grown ups were drinking. |
He wasn't sat with you, he was sat near you? | |
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| The Swan is closing on 21:44 - Sep 10 with 1457 views | north_stand77 |
| The Swan is closing on 17:46 - Sep 10 by WeWereZombies |
The Vaults was right next to Mannings but slightly underground, hence the name...The Crown and Anchor was just along from Debenhams and closed down to become W H Smiths.
The Cock and Pye ?
The Bandbox ?
The Queens Head ?
Oxborrows Hotel ? |
They were my era too!
Plus The General Gordon and Traceys night club - ipswich was very different then. |  | | |
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| The Swan is closing on 22:14 - Sep 10 with 1409 views | stonojnr |
| The Swan is closing on 17:10 - Sep 10 by hype313 |
Strange, always seems a busy pub |
ah time to remind people that busy pubs...ie with high turnover, do not always equal profitability, or even sustainability. |  | | |
| The Swan is closing on 22:20 - Sep 10 with 1392 views | stonojnr |
| The Swan is closing on 20:05 - Sep 10 by You_Bloo_Right |
Last time I was in The Swan, admittedly some years ago, it must have taken me 5 minutes to walk from the front door to the bar - every step required strenuous effort to unstick each foot from the carpet. |
must have been a different pub, as Id go so far as to say even in the 90s, the area from the front door to the bar was never carpeted, and it certainly isnt now or has been for years. the little section beyond the bar with the pool table/jukebox and corridor to the toilets used to be carpet, but not the bar.
https://www.instagram.com/past | | | |
| The Swan is closing on 22:39 - Sep 10 with 1340 views | stonojnr |
well youve got to ask who though ? aiui the pub was on a freehold lease till 2034, and so the current leaseholders have decided even on a freehold, not on tenancy with a pubco/brewery screwing them over, the numbers just dont work for them anymore.
and if it doesnt work for them, why would it be different for anyone else ?
but I havent been to the Swan & Hedgehog for nearly 2 years now, and only once to the Spread Eagle, why mention the Spread Eagle well that lease is up for sale too btw
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/
I sense my Heritage Open day weekend might be spent wandering round pubs that look about to close :( | | | |
| The Swan is closing on 00:05 - Sep 11 with 1264 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| The Swan is closing on 22:20 - Sep 10 by stonojnr |
must have been a different pub, as Id go so far as to say even in the 90s, the area from the front door to the bar was never carpeted, and it certainly isnt now or has been for years. the little section beyond the bar with the pool table/jukebox and corridor to the toilets used to be carpet, but not the bar.
https://www.instagram.com/past |
Foiled by my failing memory. Distinctly remembered the sticky carpet but clearly filled in gaps about where exactly it was. | |
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| The Swan is closing on 00:24 - Sep 11 with 1246 views | floridablue |
| The Swan is closing on 17:46 - Sep 10 by WeWereZombies |
The Vaults was right next to Mannings but slightly underground, hence the name...The Crown and Anchor was just along from Debenhams and closed down to become W H Smiths.
The Cock and Pye ?
The Bandbox ?
The Queens Head ?
Oxborrows Hotel ? |
All pubs I frequented in my youth and with memories from all of them. Bandbox was where I met my first wife (another 2 since!) and a regular haunt in the mid 70s.
Queens head was a regular hang out before entry into the Baths Hall nightclub on the opposite corner. One of my most vivid memories was the night a gang of West ham fans stayed behind after the game and got savagely attack by a mob of Town boys who left the Queens for the Baths Hall with massive intent to confront their mob. That was probably year 70. My first ever beers were in the Mulberry Tree late 60s as a young teenager | | | |
| The Swan is closing on 01:12 - Sep 11 with 1213 views | Benters |
| The Swan is closing on 17:46 - Sep 10 by WeWereZombies |
The Vaults was right next to Mannings but slightly underground, hence the name...The Crown and Anchor was just along from Debenhams and closed down to become W H Smiths.
The Cock and Pye ?
The Bandbox ?
The Queens Head ?
Oxborrows Hotel ? |
I’d been in the Cock and Pye.
Can’t remember the others.
It’s the age you know.
White Horse,and the place that looked like a old theatre ? |  |
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| The Swan is closing on 01:17 - Sep 11 with 1209 views | Benters |
| The Swan is closing on 19:08 - Sep 10 by GlasgowBlue |
Yeah met loads of TWTDers in pubs back then. People with different views were more civil to each other back then.
Speaking of which I introduced Metal Hacker to Mach Foreign Blue at Old Trafford the week before last. He hasn't mellowed. |
Mach bless him I still converse with him now and again.
The first time I met him was when I was with Brogan at Brentford.
He said ‘Hello Bentaz’ in some foreign tongue. | |
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| The Swan is closing on 01:25 - Sep 11 with 1198 views | hoppy |
| The Swan is closing on 22:39 - Sep 10 by stonojnr |
well youve got to ask who though ? aiui the pub was on a freehold lease till 2034, and so the current leaseholders have decided even on a freehold, not on tenancy with a pubco/brewery screwing them over, the numbers just dont work for them anymore.
and if it doesnt work for them, why would it be different for anyone else ?
but I havent been to the Swan & Hedgehog for nearly 2 years now, and only once to the Spread Eagle, why mention the Spread Eagle well that lease is up for sale too btw
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/
I sense my Heritage Open day weekend might be spent wandering round pubs that look about to close :( |
They’ve also got the Salutation, so all the live music that had been booked at the Swan will be moving to The Salutation now. |  |
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| The Swan is closing on 07:04 - Sep 11 with 1115 views | WeWereZombies |
| The Swan is closing on 01:25 - Sep 11 by hoppy |
They’ve also got the Salutation, so all the live music that had been booked at the Swan will be moving to The Salutation now. |
Back in the Seventies I used to know an ex. Irish Guardsman who would go into The Salutation and chat with Kevin Beattie (who drank in there for a bit of peace and quiet, it was the most unfashionable pub in town in those days.) | |
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| The Swan is closing on 07:10 - Sep 11 with 1102 views | Bluemike31 |
Takes me back to my youth with all these pub names, late 70's into the 80s.
Every Friday and Saturday night in the Swan, Cock &Pye, General Gordon, Black Horse, Halberd, Salutation, Coach & Horses, etc etc.
One that sprung up a bit later was Dukes, had some really good nights in there too.
Oh for those days again !!! | | | |
| The Swan is closing on 07:19 - Sep 11 with 1088 views | MattinLondon |
| The Swan is closing on 07:04 - Sep 11 by WeWereZombies |
Back in the Seventies I used to know an ex. Irish Guardsman who would go into The Salutation and chat with Kevin Beattie (who drank in there for a bit of peace and quiet, it was the most unfashionable pub in town in those days.) |
Isn’t that still the case with The Salutation? Certainly was the case when I lived in Ipswich - has it had a change of image? It was the pub equivalent of the Churchmans. |  | | |
| The Swan is closing on 08:08 - Sep 11 with 1003 views | TheMover |
| The Swan is closing on 18:30 - Sep 10 by Trequartista |
It's where the Thomas Wolsey is now. |
Was it also called The Toad and Raspberry at some point?
Also used to frequent The Crown and Anchor and Ths Great White Horse, amongst others. | | | |
| The Swan is closing on 08:11 - Sep 11 with 999 views | WeWereZombies |
| The Swan is closing on 07:19 - Sep 11 by MattinLondon |
Isn’t that still the case with The Salutation? Certainly was the case when I lived in Ipswich - has it had a change of image? It was the pub equivalent of the Churchmans. |
Can't really say, all I have ever done is poke my head around the door and think 'nah, not for me' - same for The Falcon. Although someone posted on here a while back about seeing a quite young Terry Butcher in thrall to a fully denimed Paul Mariner as they had a drink in The Saluation before going over the road to watch Iron Maiden at The Gaumont. | |
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| The Swan is closing on 08:21 - Sep 11 with 982 views | LRB84UK |
| The Swan is closing on 17:08 - Sep 10 by Benters |
That was a great pub in its time. |
Back in 2001, as a 17 year old, I met a friend in the Swan for a drink, took a bit of a shine to the barman. Married him in 2006 and we've just had our 20th wedding anniversary. The Swan holds a lot of happy memories for me from the early 2000s. It was always full back then, no matter what time of the day or what day of the week it was. | | | |
| The Swan is closing on 08:36 - Sep 11 with 956 views | hype313 |
| The Swan is closing on 01:25 - Sep 11 by hoppy |
They’ve also got the Salutation, so all the live music that had been booked at the Swan will be moving to The Salutation now. |
In all my years of drinking in Town, I've never set foot in The Salutation, back in the 90's it just looked like Heaven's waiting room, and I haven't ever felt the urge to give it a go, is it a bit more livey these days? [Post edited 11 Sep 8:46]
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| The Swan is closing on 08:50 - Sep 11 with 935 views | soupytwist |
| The Swan is closing on 22:39 - Sep 10 by stonojnr |
well youve got to ask who though ? aiui the pub was on a freehold lease till 2034, and so the current leaseholders have decided even on a freehold, not on tenancy with a pubco/brewery screwing them over, the numbers just dont work for them anymore.
and if it doesnt work for them, why would it be different for anyone else ?
but I havent been to the Swan & Hedgehog for nearly 2 years now, and only once to the Spread Eagle, why mention the Spread Eagle well that lease is up for sale too btw
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/
I sense my Heritage Open day weekend might be spent wandering round pubs that look about to close :( |
I hope the Spread Eagle carries on. As someone who drives to games from Essex my son and I don't tend to go to the pub too often before a game but that's our (my) choice if we do.
A decent pint from Grain Brewery. |  | | |
| The Swan is closing on 09:01 - Sep 11 with 916 views | NthQldITFC |
The brevity of the title puts me in mind of the scene in the Tube station in Battle of Britain, where the starey-eyed old fella comes along in shock, and says "They've got the King's Head", as if Hitler himself had specifically targeted that establishment.
Our attachment to pubs, and our comfort in the form in which we're used to them is quite a powerful thing, n'est ce-pas? |  |
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