| Does anyone help? 22:08 - Sep 13 with 11163 views | sully49 |
Can anyone help my mate from Leeds asked me why is Wind Street known as Wine Street? |  |
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| Does anyone help? on 22:47 - Sep 14 with 2007 views | Darran |
| Does anyone help? on 20:50 - Sep 14 by Darran |
So tell everyone what I've lied about.
Bet you don't answer. |
Looks like I'm right again. |  |
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| Does anyone help? on 22:53 - Sep 14 with 2010 views | ImAlrightJack |
| Does anyone help? on 22:13 - Sep 13 by Lohengrin |
Because it's not "Wind" as in gust of, rather it's "Wind" as in meander.
Same spelling, both are nouns, but have different meaning entirely. |
Or as in winding up a watch! 😂😂😂😂 |  | | |
| Does anyone help? on 23:14 - Sep 14 with 1996 views | Loyal |
| Does anyone help? on 12:52 - Sep 14 by jack247 |
That is utter bollocks. You called people who disagreed with you villagers |
I lived in a village for a number of years, I'm not sure it was an insult,
Plenty of outdoor spaces. |  |
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| Does anyone help? on 23:25 - Sep 14 with 1992 views | Gowerjack |
| Does anyone help? on 22:24 - Sep 14 by FieryJack |
Yes - it was the Burroughs Arms, one of the roughest pubs I've ever been in anywhere. It's now a Spanish bodega place, I think.
One saturday night I counted 7 separate fights in there. Most of the punters were alcoholics or psychos or down and outs. During all this fighting I can remember the whitewashed tyre around the dartboard falling onto someone's head.
That well known Swansea character, Hank, used to drink in here. He tried to sell me some gear & I declined.
The youngest of the Craven brothers was in here one night with his notorious mother & threatened to kill me. Luckily, he didn't - he did that to someone else several decades late.
The optics behind the bar were covered in sailors' caps.
At that time - late 70's early 80's - there were still a few street working women at the bottom end of Wind St. One of them approached me in the Burroughs and offered me out - to do the business in the underpass that used to be there. Unbelieveable!
Wind Street had a proper rough port city ragged edge to it back then - with its sailors and tarts and ruffians and chancers.
Rough as Ar*3 holes back then - It's 20 times busier today, but far tamer and totally characterless in comparison. |
Yep
That's pretty much how I remember it.
The Burrows was an astonishing place the like of which don't exist anymore.
That underpass was nasty, Doras maybe even more so... ( sorry Kev ! ) but I loved living there ..
There were also some decent proper pubs ...The Adelphi & The Duke and a proper cafe in Taylors tea rooms.
Another world. |  |
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| Does anyone help? on 14:43 - Sep 15 with 1935 views | FieryJack |
You're right there, Gower - about the pubs: it was another another world. Preferred the Duke as it was to what it is today. It was a proper pub then, with one or two tiny snug bars, if I remember right, one of which was always crammed in the day with old blokes smoking pipes and watching the horse racing on the telly.
Dora's - that's another story: got done over by the bouncers there one night - they never wore suits and shirts, so you could never tell who or where they were. I'm sure they used to mingle on the dance floor and deliberately provoke fights. Bad-ass place.
I'm starting to sound like an old man!
One of the few proper pubs left in the centre of Swansea - one that hasn't been renovated to death - is the Queens Hotel on Gloucester Place. Only visit Swansea once or twice a year these days, but always find time for a pint or two in there. |  | | |
| Does anyone help? on 21:09 - Sep 15 with 1895 views | Gowerjack |
| Does anyone help? on 14:43 - Sep 15 by FieryJack |
You're right there, Gower - about the pubs: it was another another world. Preferred the Duke as it was to what it is today. It was a proper pub then, with one or two tiny snug bars, if I remember right, one of which was always crammed in the day with old blokes smoking pipes and watching the horse racing on the telly.
Dora's - that's another story: got done over by the bouncers there one night - they never wore suits and shirts, so you could never tell who or where they were. I'm sure they used to mingle on the dance floor and deliberately provoke fights. Bad-ass place.
I'm starting to sound like an old man!
One of the few proper pubs left in the centre of Swansea - one that hasn't been renovated to death - is the Queens Hotel on Gloucester Place. Only visit Swansea once or twice a year these days, but always find time for a pint or two in there. |
Yep.
The Queens is the only decent pub left in the City Centre.
When we visit Liverpool we often pop in here...
http://www.thecaledonialiverpool.com/
A great pub good beer,conversation and music.
It's such a shame we have nothing like it down here.... [Post edited 15 Sep 2016 21:13]
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| Does anyone help? on 21:24 - Sep 15 with 1877 views | exiledclaseboy |
Last time I was in the Queen's it stank of wee. Not sure if it was the pub itself or some of the patrons. We're spoiled these days, expecting our pubs not to smell of bodily fluids or worse. [Post edited 15 Sep 2016 21:24]
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| Does anyone help? on 21:43 - Sep 15 with 1861 views | Gowerjack |
| Does anyone help? on 21:24 - Sep 15 by exiledclaseboy |
Last time I was in the Queen's it stank of wee. Not sure if it was the pub itself or some of the patrons. We're spoiled these days, expecting our pubs not to smell of bodily fluids or worse. [Post edited 15 Sep 2016 21:24]
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Lots of pubs have a whiff about them probably always have its just that the fag smoke used to mask it.
The Sloop in St Ives is a prime example. | |
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| Does anyone help? on 21:59 - Sep 15 with 1845 views | Darran |
| Does anyone help? on 21:24 - Sep 15 by exiledclaseboy |
Last time I was in the Queen's it stank of wee. Not sure if it was the pub itself or some of the patrons. We're spoiled these days, expecting our pubs not to smell of bodily fluids or worse. [Post edited 15 Sep 2016 21:24]
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The Gower Jack had probably just left. | |
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| Does anyone help? on 22:50 - Sep 15 with 1823 views | jacktar |
| Does anyone help? on 14:43 - Sep 15 by FieryJack |
You're right there, Gower - about the pubs: it was another another world. Preferred the Duke as it was to what it is today. It was a proper pub then, with one or two tiny snug bars, if I remember right, one of which was always crammed in the day with old blokes smoking pipes and watching the horse racing on the telly.
Dora's - that's another story: got done over by the bouncers there one night - they never wore suits and shirts, so you could never tell who or where they were. I'm sure they used to mingle on the dance floor and deliberately provoke fights. Bad-ass place.
I'm starting to sound like an old man!
One of the few proper pubs left in the centre of Swansea - one that hasn't been renovated to death - is the Queens Hotel on Gloucester Place. Only visit Swansea once or twice a year these days, but always find time for a pint or two in there. |
Never had any problem with Dora's. I can remember on a particularly good night out, waking up in a seat in the corner with all the lights in the place on and a cleaner hoovering up around me. God knows what time it was but no hassle, just got up staggered up the stairs and walked home .................. I think. |  |
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| Does anyone help? on 22:57 - Sep 15 with 1817 views | jacktar |
Wind Street was never the same after they closed the Green Shield Stamp Catalogue Shop.
Who remembers that place then?
I think it became the first Argos store in town if my memory serves me right. | |
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| Does anyone help? on 07:08 - Sep 16 with 1758 views | Gowerjack |
| Does anyone help? on 22:57 - Sep 15 by jacktar |
Wind Street was never the same after they closed the Green Shield Stamp Catalogue Shop.
Who remembers that place then?
I think it became the first Argos store in town if my memory serves me right. |
A small single story building on the RHS heading to the docks.
I smoked my 1st joint in the car park behind. | |
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| Does anyone help? on 08:33 - Sep 16 with 1741 views | jacktar |
| Does anyone help? on 07:08 - Sep 16 by Gowerjack |
A small single story building on the RHS heading to the docks.
I smoked my 1st joint in the car park behind. |
Those were the days aye.  | |
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| Does anyone help? on 08:36 - Sep 16 with 1741 views | perchrockjack |
Bower.
What?
You been to a Liverpool pub -lived to tell the tale.
Did you get robbed, stabbed or approached or see any bin rustlers.
Enjoy it.
Tell the cocks down there .
Anyway, yeah long time since I been mainly as I worked around there. It was a pretty dangerous place at times and red light area.
Changed for the better and now much gentrification..awful lot of buildings work nearby
Liverpool has many warts but for music especially its staggering and frankly I don't know how it manages to produce such talent.
It's totally Liverpool talent that keeps live music scene so good.
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| Does anyone help? on 09:50 - Sep 16 with 1716 views | dickythorpe |
The Cross Keys is a tidyish pub, even the Pumphouse down the Marina. The Queens is half decent but where has the stuffed Bear gone?? |  | | |
| Does anyone help? on 10:02 - Sep 16 with 1714 views | ItchySphincter |
| Does anyone help? on 11:44 - Sep 14 by Gowerjack |
The Coach
Where me & Mrs Gowerjack met.
Ended up running the place and living upstairs.
Happy Days |
I played there a few times in the early 90's. I think we used to load in from the back and play down stairs - does that sound right? Pretty sure we used to play in a basement. Can you still go down there? |  |
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| Does anyone help? on 16:17 - Sep 16 with 1683 views | jackb |
No ones answered the question yet, why is it pronounced wine??? |  | | |
| Does anyone help? on 16:20 - Sep 16 with 1681 views | Darran |
| Does anyone help? on 16:17 - Sep 16 by jackb |
No ones answered the question yet, why is it pronounced wine??? |
Probably because it's not. | |
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| Does anyone help? on 16:27 - Sep 16 with 1675 views | Darran |
| Does anyone help? on 20:33 - Sep 14 by perchrockjack |
I understand many are apparently under the influence if the sites most venal liar and interloper but look at the title and see when how and by whom it drifted into this.
Anyone not seeing wind st is a stain on a once proud city needs a lobotomy.
Next time, I ll illustrate how our lovely kings way has been destroyed forever.
I've got family in Swansea too, plenty of them all born bred jacks
Finally since when did neath people love Swansea . Pitiful stuff.
All neathie and port talbot and Turks I knew hated anything Swansea.
This is the truth .this is uncomfortable. |
You still haven't told everyone what I've lied about too. | |
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| Does anyone help? on 16:46 - Sep 16 with 1664 views | sully49 |
The old No sign wine bar was a fantastic watering hole too. Iremember the Goose too.
Was the RAOB Club the Buff, I think, around there also? | |
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