Blyth, Cowpen, Windmill Inn

[blythian]

Windmill is still open as a pub for now, don't know whats happening now :/

[winshipstreetlad]

When it was said thar Gene Vincent was at the Roxy? BLYTH.Could it of being Vince Eager?
As I saw Gene Vincent ! Along with Eddie Cochran, Big Bopper, and a load of others at Newcastle . But cannot remember GV being at Blyth? Could be an age thing? With me!

The stars from the Roxy VInce Eager Joe Brown Billy Fury and others all went horse ridding on Blyth beach, on horses from Strachans?? Stables? I meet them all and remember it quite clearly.

[Yossarian]

I remember a Straughan's stables down by where Solingen estate is now - that might have been them.

[winshipstreetlad]

Yes that was them but it was a long time ago. But I remember it as if it was yesterday. Happy Days.

[dolly dimples]

 Just another Blyth snippett....dear old Kitty Brewster pub being re- furbished,  and will be opening soon as Premier meats..
 it is just a stones throw from the large ASDA store,
                                Dolly
 

[Michael Dixon]

  Dolly,

  It was the dear old Foresters Arms for me ! But still sad!

Michael                                                                                     

[Yossarian]

I drank at the Foresters Arms just twice - and I was well under age too.

I don't know if it's true, but I have heard that the Masons Arms in Blyth is to be developed by a supermarket chain. I also noticed the other day that they have started removing the roof from the Queen's Head at Guide Post, apparently prior to demolition. I believe this to be a very old inn, which I visited occasionally many years ago - legally this time.

Keep photographing those pubs, both inside and out, because you never know when they will cease to be.

By the way, does anyone know exactly how many years of drinking history will be obliterated when/if the Queen's Head is demolished and the Masons becomes a shop?

[blythian]

I drank at the Foresters Arms just twice - and I was well under age too.

I don't know if it's true, but I have heard that the Masons Arms in Blyth is to be developed by a supermarket chain. I also noticed the other day that they have started removing the roof from the Queen's Head at Guide Post, apparently prior to demolition. I believe this to be a very old inn, which I visited occasionally many years ago - legally this time.

Keep photographing those pubs, both inside and out, because you never know when they will cease to be.

By the way, does anyone know exactly how many years of drinking history will be obliterated when/if the Queen's Head is demolished and the Masons becomes a shop?

It's the Joiners, not the Masons ;)Though theres nothing on the Planning Portal about change of use...maybe just renovating

[AlisdairGB]

Unfortunately I don't think that "Change of Use" permission is need to change from a pub to a shop. You need permission for any structural changes, or extension, but not for the change of use.

That was the furore about the pub in Seaton Delaval ( the Victoria and Albert ?) that Tescos wanted to buy to open as Tesco Express.