Brighton Pub Name Changes

[Eurobound]

i do ive seen it go from sherrys/pink coconut/paradox, over the road was jenkinsons , anyone remember coasters ?? and im tha old i can remember when the gloucester was called MR Ks

Mr Ks was the Birds Nest

 

[woody12a]

Before Birds Nest it was called Bubbles

 

[Deleted User X18H]

The Brunswick - Leek and Winkle - Leek - Caroline of Brunswick
The Edward - The Reservoir
The Admiral Napier - Too Many To List

Isn't the Reservoir the old Cobden?

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The Mary Packs - The Red Lion Hove

 

[mune ni kamome]

Rutland - Ancient Mariner
Stirling - Forager
? - Alibi
Pub by the lagoon??
The Ship (Hove St) - ? - Ginger Pig
Station - Whistlestop

The Adur=Blue Lagoon I think

 

[The Large One]

Isn't the Reservoir the old Cobden?

Nope.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Nope.

Is it still the Cobden then?

 

[16bha]

What's the Somerset in St George's Rd, Kemptown called now?

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Is it still the Cobden then?

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]

Actually, The Nightingale - Finnegans Wake - Grand Central

Actually, The Railway - The Nightingale - etc etc

And isn't the Hare and Hounds, The Hydrant now?

 

[Buzzer]

Isn't the Reservoir the old Cobden

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]

Thurlow Arms - Jurys Out - Caledonian Review Bar - Jurys Out.

Also, noticed yesterday that The Racehorse has changed it's name, can't remember what to though?

Was The Thurlow the Raglan Arms prior?

 

[HovaGirl]

Shark Bar - Heist
The Standard - Culture

Didn't The Standard used to be the Queen Anne?

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and of course on ship street (where the Albion were formed):

The Ship - Oneills - Seven Stars

It was the Seven Stars in my day, in the late 60s.

 

[HovaGirl]

Don't forget what was, for a while, Bertie Belcher's Brighton Brewery Company At The Hedgehog and Hogshead, It's Really In Hove Actually - which was called The Cliftonville when I lived in Hove. But isn't to be confused with at least two other Hove pubs that have also been called The Cliftonville.

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!

 

[HovaGirl]

The Deryk Carver - The Black Lion

I remember it as the Deryk Carver in the 60s. Black Lion was a different pub, to my memory.

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The Abinger.


Smooth types like me would also have tried, usually unsuccessfully, to get a performance out of Disco Doris.

Used to love The Abinger. Those were the days!

 

[HovaGirl]

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.

 

[HovaGirl]

whats the bar near the club shop, in Queens Road? that changes names every tme you blink..

Well, at one time it was the William Tell and had a Swiss flag.

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All this goes to prove that it should be ILLEGAL for a pub to change its name - or at the very least individual name changes should require individual Acts of Parliament.

Absolutely and utterly agree.

 

[HovaGirl]

As for lost pubs apart from the E&C , Snipe now Sainsbury and an old favourite of mine the Coachmakers in Trafalgar Street.

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).

 

[HovaGirl]

Mr Ks was the Birds Nest

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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Before Birds Nest it was called Bubbles

No it wasn't. Bubbles was somewhere else but I can't remember where.

 

[happypig]

The Eagle > The George Beard > The Eagle

 

[jmsc]

Cobblers thumb>Walkabout

It was the New England Tavern before being the Cobblers Thumb.