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Originally Posted by yoller
I think the pub Jimbob was referring to was the one next to the county court on the corner of Pilgrim Street and Chester Street - on derekdwc's map, you can see a building next to the court marked PH. Also, I think the Glass Barrel has been marked wrongly on the map - isn't it the next building up, other side of Albion Street? It's interesting to see that the UAB was also once a pub.



I agree the Glass Barrel was on the other corner of Albion St.


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Bentleys The pawnshop was the last shop on exmouth st Conway st. give ur pawn ticket in through a little hole paid what was due got ur belongings back.


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Originally Posted by derekdwc
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Clarendon Hotel Chester St

In the previous posts was the waste ground with the billboards where the UAB used to be top of Market St


Where the waste ground is with the billboards, that must have been the Ranelagh Hotel. The street directory you posted has that at No 2 and the Glass Barrel at No 14. If the Clarendon was there the Ranelagh and the Clarendon would have to be touching each other.


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I thought this was next to hornblowers on the corner ??


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To explain where ?? im most prob wrong but wasnt there a building there ages ago ??

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I remember Fotocam, they used to do the custom work on my rifles! Custom slings, sights and silencers!


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Always went there for parts at one time dead cheap sold shotie cartridges 75p boxes of 25 1980s only one in b/head then and since went expensive may be his son took over. didn't have to show ur licence in them days.


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Originally Posted by hoseman
I remember Fotocam, they used to do the custom work on my rifles! Custom slings, sights and silencers!


Was fotocam opposite the outside market in market st. It seems that there where 2 shops that sold air rifles etc and 2 jewelers. The gun type shop and jeweler thats fresher in my mind were in market st between argyle st and hamilton st. Talking to Jimbob this morning there was also a gun shop and jewelers in market st between hamilton st and chester st.


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If it's of any use, here's a map from about 1970 which shows the numbering & also some of the pubs. By that time, the Ranelagh, at No.2 had disappeared, in fact the numbers 2-6 now are part of the building No. 86 Chester St. From my (fading) memory, the shop where I bought a pistol was about No. 30.
Also a postcard I bought recently on e-bay, taken, I'd guess, from the upper floor of the Hamilton Vaults.

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Pity the name of the pub wasn't shown next to County Courts

must have been a pickpockets dream

I wonder what the punishment was if caught then and what it would be today
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Foto Cam is at about 25 or 27, next to post Office i think!!


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Originally Posted by yoller
I'd agree that the pub WAS the Ranelagh Hotel. As you walked up Market Street towards Chester Street, it was directly across the road on the corner. The UAB was definitely not a pub in the 1950s, but I don't know about before that.


Just been talking to someone trying to find out the name of the pub next to the county court, no luck yet, but he reckons the county court, Pilgrim St was turned into the uab/brew, said he went there loads.


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According to the directory page posted by derekdwc, the pub next to the court was the Clarendon, numbers 109 & 111 Chester St. You can just see it on the map I posted.


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Originally Posted by chriskay
According to the directory page posted by derekdwc, the pub next to the court was the Clarendon, numbers 109 & 111 Chester St. You can just see it on the map I posted.


correct Chris, But was the chap right then was the courts turned in to the uab/brew.


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what does the brew part mean

Sounds like something to do with beer

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