?Name of a Pub in Nuneaton

[Noel Wincote]

There was a pub in Nuneaton right side of Tuttle hill called the The Rose Bowl before being knocked down and moving to the top of the hill across from what was then the white horse which still stands today well for the time, I have a picture of it next to the canal
Your Noel W

[avm228]

Actually, i've just had a thought (although i'm probably clutching at straws).

I remember seeing details for a death for a Kath Gilbert somtime in the ?1990's (I think), and the death was registered in Foleshill.

I can't see that at all in the indexes, but I do see this:

Death reg Jan 1999

Catherine GILBERT
Date of birth 10 Sep 1894

Nuneaton & Bedworth
Register number: B35C 
District and Subdistrict: 7681B 
Entry number: 78


Anna

[Al in Vane]

In answer to Noel the pub is actually called the Punch Bowl and is on the right near the top of Tuttle Hill as you approach from Birmingham. The White Horse is on the right going in the same direction and it is at the bottom of the hill next to the canal. Some years ago it became a sort of night club called The Crazey Horse but a couple of years or so down the line became a Chinese Restaurant and I believe it is closed now.
I had considered those two as being the one that fayl was after but both had a car park in front although the directions indicate they would be on the wrong side of the road.
I will dig those Year Books out again next time I am in the Library and see if I can find a Cath Gilbert in charge of a pub.
Al

[avm228]

Unfortunately the 1960 BT phone book for the Coventry area (covering Nuneaton) shows nobody called Gilbert on the Nuneaton telephone exchange at all.

The only Gilbert in the area who looks as though he's a publican in 1960 is this one:

GILBERT W., Royal Oak Hartshill - phone no. Chapel End 260

http://www.royaloakhartshill.co.uk/

Could they have lived in Hartshill rather than Nuneaton itself? Could this be Walter/Wally?

Anna

[Al in Vane]

I think you have cracked it Anna!
Hartshill is regarded as Nuneaton but only just. Taking Fay's original memories of the route she would have either have turned left in Chapel End and up a slight hill then left into Oldbury Road and the Royal Oak is on the right or it sounds like she went further and turned left at Windmill Corner at the top of Tuttle Hill then left just past the Anker and up what is a very steep climb into Hartshill and the Royal Oak is left and then right. Hardly a built up area but to a small child the row of houses would perhaps seem like it. If they went the latter route it is the long way round, something like two miles further, but the views across the Trent Valley to Charnwood are worth every penny! I have often walked up that lane from the valley gasping for a pint in the Oak or round the corner to the Stag and Pheasant on the Green!

[fayl]

Well everyone,  as Al in Vane has said - I think you have cracked it Anna.

Just looked at the web site for the Royal Oak and it does look very similar - although  it's frontage looks bigger than I remember,  but trying to recall a pub 50 years on - when as a small child all that interested you was a bottle of Vimto.

As soon as I have a free weekend (unfortunately my Mother is in hospital so my time is very limited at the moment) then I will get my husband to take me out there and let you all know if this is the pub.

Thank you all so much for your help.

Regards
Fay

[Noel Wincote]

Sorry for the Mistake found out it's the Punch boel Today but i Still Have a Picture of it And a  Friend of mine as One facing down the hill

Sorry again Noel W

[Al in Vane]

No problem Noel, I have trouble remembering what day it is at times!!

Fay, In Library and just decided to look at Nuneaton Observer for 1960 and first one I looked at, guess what? Mr W. Gilbert licensee of the Royal Oak, Hartshill who was connected with Hartshill Old Boys (Football team).
Took a couple of photo copies, not bad considering they are off a film of a newspaper.
If you drop me your details on a PM I will send them off snail mail with my compliments.
Al

[fayl]

Al that would be great - what a bonus.

Just gonna drop you a PM.

Again everyone - thank you so much for your help.

Regards
Fay