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Brighton Pub Name Changes
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Isn't the Reservoir the old Cobden?
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The Mary Packs - The Red Lion Hove
mune ni kamome
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The Adur=Blue Lagoon I think
The Large One
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Nope.
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Is it still the Cobden then?
16bha
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What's the Somerset in St George's Rd, Kemptown called now?
Southover Street Seagull
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The Cobden Arms has never changed it's name as far as I'm aware but used to have a back entrance in Luther Street.
The Reservoir reverted to its original name after being called the Edwardian.
KNC
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Actually, The Railway - The Nightingale - etc etc
And isn't the Hare and Hounds, The Hydrant now?
Buzzer
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- Oct 1, 2006
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no. The Cobden's still there. Never been in, mind. That big one on London Road was the London to Brighton for a while. I've lost count of the name-changes for the Old Orleans place. The Frock and Jacket used to be opposite. As with that gay friendly bar/disco at the bottom of St James. 20/20 for a time.
KNC
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Was The Thurlow the Raglan Arms prior?
Didn't The Standard used to be the Queen Anne?
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It was the Seven Stars in my day, in the late 60s.
The Cliftonville (Hotel) used to be next to Hove Station. But it's called sommat else now.
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On West Street, 'The Queen Anne' used to have 'The Beer Kellar' in the basement - top joint for foreign totty every summer.
The Spotted Dog was the pub we joked about for being about the only mincer hangout back then.
The Hungry Years was a rock disco!
What was the pub nearer the West Pier, that all the Arabs seemed to like? I used to have to listen on the last bus home, to common disco Doris going on about how lovely Achmed was, and how she really fancied Mahmood and he's really a PRINCE back in Egypt
Before the Hungry Years was a rock disco, it used to be a Bier Keller!
I remember it as the Deryk Carver in the 60s. Black Lion was a different pub, to my memory.
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Used to love The Abinger. Those were the days!
Guilty to remembering all of this and also when the Top Rank was an ice rink
Used to go to the ice rink at the Top Rank Suite every Wednesday. Even Dad used to go and he hated sport of any kind. We were all heartbroken when it turned into a bunch of cinemas.
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Well, at one time it was the William Tell and had a Swiss flag.
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Absolutely and utterly agree.
Yeah, and the May Tree became a housing estate.
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Back to Hove ...
This one's had an extended identity crisis over the years. I only have a hazy recollection of its various identities but its history goes something like
The Sackville
BooBoos
The Sackville
then?
Hove Park Tavern
Plastic pint pots for home games and an incredibly intimidating atmosphere at some games (especially that one v you know who opening day 1974/75)
It's had so many names, that about twenty years ago it had a list of its old names painted on is rounded corner, with all the old names crossed out. I think that was when it became the Hove Park Tav, but had been the Sackville before that (apart from all the other names).
Yep. My old haunt around 1970. The place to be seen in those days, apart from the Kings Club (downstairs of Dr Brightons/Star and Garter or whatever it's called now)
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No it wasn't. Bubbles was somewhere else but I can't remember where.
happypig
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The Eagle > The George Beard > The Eagle
jmsc
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It was the New England Tavern before being the Cobblers Thumb.