Please could anyone help with info regarding my grandparents restaurant which was somewhere in Mollington/Backford up until about 1964 when it was demolished I believe. I think it was on a busy roundabout somewhere and used to host lots of coach parties.Any memories, anyone? Thanks

If my memory serves me right, it was on the A517 (Backford to Shotwick road) near the roundabout where the A540 (Chester High Road) crosses. On LH side heading towards Shotwick. There's a filling station (if it's still there)almost on the same spot now.

Maybe someone else can verify ??

i think you are right pinzgauer, i was only young but remember it there

Thanks sunnyside. A relief to know there are still a few grey cells left in the old swede !!!

you certainly know how to make a woman feel good pinzgauer lol.

Oops sorry. I was actually referring to myself and my "iffy" memory! Yes, I suppose as a chat-up line, I could have done better. ha.ha. Hides back under rock !!

no problem pinzgauer, the true does hurt, i am a dinosaur lol.

I still refer to the roundabout as the Coq D'Or

so do i tatey, some things don't change do they? people don.t know were i am on about .

the coq dor was a hotel on the A41 on the roundabout just past the garden centre on the right hand side on way to chester - backford border , it was demolished mid sixties . And a very smart woman started to build a new hotel on the same site , it was halted because she had money troubles , in fact she had none.

Solvas, you're right. I remember that concrete building, it was started but never finished.

The coq d'or was at the junction of A41 and A5117. I fell asleep after a "heavy lunch" in a lecture there in the mid 1960's.

I think there was a change of ownership and it was then called The Mercury inn before it closed and was then demolised.

that is correct greybeard.

Thats right, I remember it as the Mercury Motor Inn

The Coq d'Or closed in the 1960s with plans for a new motel. The building was demolished and the steelwork for the new motel was errected. This 'skeleton' remained for many years until the site was sold and the Wirral Mercury Motor Inn was built (I think they removed the old steelwork and started again). This was later re-named the Penguin.