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We have received the following e-mails if anyone can help or wishes to respond: Dear Secretary;
This is not a question about ‘Real Ale’ although I do support the efforts of CAMRA having attended many beer festivals in the past.
I am an old Walsallian – born at top of Pleck Rd near the canal bridge and still Walsall through and through although I have only been back a couple of times since I moved away in 1971.
For some time I have searched on the internet for ‘old Walsall pubs – 1940`s, 50`s, 60. etc but have not been very successful.
As a twenty years old I used to often frequent The Falcon on corner of Walhouse and Lichfield Road but I used to often go to another pub on same side as The Falcon just a few yards up Walhouse Road opposite Greatorex Social Club. Also I was often in a little pub on Lichfield Road just before Walsall Arboretum, you could also walk through this pub and come out in Ward St.
I am now 71 and have met a fellow Walsallian in Spain where we moved to when I retired four years ago, we often chat about Walsall pubs but I have forgotten the names of those two pubs. Is it possible that one of your members may know them?
It is nice to see the Rose and Crown in Birchills is still doing the business – I spent many happy weekends there when it was kept by Tommy Taylor and latter by Jimmy Kempson in the 60`s and early 70`s. The Navigation used to be a fantastic pint of beer but it had closed when I last visited the area – a real shame. I also used to go in the pigeon fanciers pub The New Inns on corner of Green Lane and Hospital St – I think the New Inns went to Bliss Hill Museum in Telford.
Is the Bricklayers Arms still in service on the Wisemore and the Walsall Arms in Chuckery?
Next time I come to UK I will have to do a pub crawl around some of the pubs that I knew so well. From what I have heard there is going to be a road right through the ground where our old house stood in Pleck Road.
Best Regards. John Barnes
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