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The Connaught estate was built on the site of Connaught Barracks.0
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Diebythesword said:0
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My dear old Dad was a RMP ( London Provost Company) and his office/ guard room was in the Connaught.Starinnaddick said:The Connaught estate was built on the site of Connaught Barracks.He met my Mum at a dance ( She worked in the Arsenal) at Woolwich Town Hall.He was a scouser and loved a scrap , so being a RMP in Woolwich suited him down to the ground.Loved the Army/ Navy Rugby game, he would go toe to toe with the Navy Regulators. But he always had a strong sense of fairness.But he made Woolwich his home, he was on Plumstead Common watching a game of bowls, in his late 70s when two Herbert’s tried to mugger him.(Both white lads ) he broke his walking stick hitting the tallest and the other he couldn’t catch up with the other.1 -
Is the guardhouse for sale? Must’ve missed that0
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If you don’t drink in there as you dislike it, you might not have heard. But it is not a secret and it has been for quite a while now.0
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Saw Troy at The Star Plumstead a few weeks ago for the 2nd time - he is so good live!!!Curb_It said:3 -
I think I would go upstairs if I managed to get a ticket to see him. Do you go to the comedy nights often?1
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He’s not there all week.Curb_It said:I think I would go upstairs if I managed to get a ticket to see him. Do you go to the comedy nights often?2 -
Going Kings Arms Bexleyheath tonight (on the roof) and we go most months to The Star. The MC and artist booker for both is one of our own, the great Tom Toal.Curb_It said:I think I would go upstairs if I managed to get a ticket to see him. Do you go to the comedy nights often?1 -
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Another Woolwich pub almost gone. Bit of a sad sight.
Few of our regular posters known to frequent here, particularly on 17 March.
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And for GAA games.4
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Knew and walked pass that pub since I was a kid going to school and that was a long time ago!
Bull Tavern, gone but not forgotten.3 -
It was well lively with squaddies in my youth when it was called the Ordnance Arms.0
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Different pub. The Ordnance/Gun Pit/O’Connors is on the front of the road, opposite the Arsenal. The Bull Tavern is/was around the corner in Vincent Road.Starinnaddick said:It was well lively with squaddies in my youth when it was called the Ordnance Arms.1 -
@guinnessaddick did you notice a certain ex-barmaid (thankfully ex) from Roses in this video?Curb_It said:0 -
The one sitting next to the man in blue?TelMc32 said:
@guinnessaddick did you notice a certain ex-barmaid (thankfully ex) from Roses in this video?Curb_It said:1 -
The Ordnance has been ripped out and poshed up waiting for something like a Pret or a coffee shop to take on the lease. I don’t think it will be a pub again.Starinnaddick said:It was well lively with squaddies in my youth when it was called the Ordnance Arms.0 -
Yeah, trundled by that the other day and thought the same. 2002 World Cup in The Bull was amazing. Though the body clock became a bit disjointed2
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Surprised she hasn’t closed the pub early.TelMc32 said:
@guinnessaddick did you notice a certain ex-barmaid (thankfully ex) from Roses in this video?Curb_It said:1 -
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Apparently the rent / lease is £75k a year.Curb_It said:
The Ordnance has been ripped out and poshed up waiting for something like a Pret or a coffee shop to take on the lease. I don’t think it will be a pub again.Starinnaddick said:It was well lively with squaddies in my youth when it was called the Ordnance Arms.0 -
IIRC part of the condition of the planning permission to turn the upstairs into a hotel was the ground floor would be retained as a pub/restaurant.Curb_It said:
The Ordnance has been ripped out and poshed up waiting for something like a Pret or a coffee shop to take on the lease. I don’t think it will be a pub again.Starinnaddick said:It was well lively with squaddies in my youth when it was called the Ordnance Arms.2 -
Yes B. She was working in Roses, often doing the Tuesday night shift. We’d pop in after Charlton games and she’d be calling last orders at 10 because it had been quiet and she wanted to go home. The look we’d get if we walked in just before 10. Didn’t bother a couple of times when the roadworks delayed us getting back. Had a word with the manager who told her she was employed to be there til gone 11. Thankfully, no longer a problem.Curb_It said:
The one sitting next to the man in blue?TelMc32 said:
@guinnessaddick did you notice a certain ex-barmaid (thankfully ex) from Roses in this video?Curb_It said:1 -
I realise now that is The Bull. Wasn't it supposed to be rebuilt? I used to drink in what was called the Little Bull in Wilmount Street. Maybe called Princess of Wales.TelMc32 said:
Different pub. The Ordnance/Gun Pit/O’Connors is on the front of the road, opposite the Arsenal. The Bull Tavern is/was around the corner in Vincent Road.Starinnaddick said:It was well lively with squaddies in my youth when it was called the Ordnance Arms.2 -
The original plan was for the building to remain and become a concierge office for the flats that are due to go up behind it and along Vincent Street. Somewhere along the line, that’s gone out the window and they’ve demolished it. It’s hard enough for pubs these days, but local councils really don’t help at all.Starinnaddick said:
I realise now that is The Bull. Wasn't it supposed to be rebuilt? I used to drink in what was called the Little Bull in Wilmount Street. Maybe called Princess of Wales.TelMc32 said:
Different pub. The Ordnance/Gun Pit/O’Connors is on the front of the road, opposite the Arsenal. The Bull Tavern is/was around the corner in Vincent Road.Starinnaddick said:It was well lively with squaddies in my youth when it was called the Ordnance Arms.0 -
I used to have to do deliveries on the Aylesbury Estate back in the 90s.usetobunkin said:
I was a paper boy from WH Smith in Woolwich Arsenal station and I had the Connault as part of my round.R0TW said:Try connault estate back in the day.People used to put the money out for the milkman by the empty bottles.
The money was going missing and I was turned over by a young PC investigating this crime.Searched me from head to toe.But I was as clean as a whistle.Got stopped twice in as weeks.Turned out a crooked milkman was binning the money and not knocking it off the bill.
At the time, the Royal Mail and the Police wouldn't go on there.0 -
I read in todays Mirror that the first Spion Kop in football was that of Woolwich Arsenal.
Woolwich Arsenal's steep earth banking at the Manor Ground was the very first terrace in English football to be nicknamed "Spion Kop", with the name coined in 1904—two full years before Liverpool's Anfield Kop was built and named in 1906
The club built a steep, towering new earth terrace to boost capacity for their 1904 promotion to the First Division, local fans and returning soldiers noted its sharp, brutal incline. They remarked that standing on the steep bank looked just like the soldiers clustered on the hilltop during the Battle of Spion Kop (fought in 1900 during the Second Boer War in South Africa).
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It is being marketed as a restaurant but hardly attractive at the amount being asked.Diebythesword said:
IIRC part of the condition of the planning permission to turn the upstairs into a hotel was the ground floor would be retained as a pub/restaurant.Curb_It said:
The Ordnance has been ripped out and poshed up waiting for something like a Pret or a coffee shop to take on the lease. I don’t think it will be a pub again.Starinnaddick said:It was well lively with squaddies in my youth when it was called the Ordnance Arms.0 -
Slightly off the topic of pubs, but I like the swimming pool that’s opened up there by the square. Take my boys there, and we come all the way over from Shirley/west wickham
It’s a good setup for their ages
ate in that Chinese restaurant by the new build flats called Jinshi yesterday. Not bad either1 -
One of my colleagues is Chinese/italian, mentioned I lived in Woolwich and she said Jinshi has got quite a bit of buzz from the Chinese expat community. The culinary scene in Woolwich does punch above its weight.cabbles said:Slightly off the topic of pubs, but I like the swimming pool that’s opened up there by the square. Take my boys there, and we come all the way over from Shirley/west wickham
It’s a good setup for their ages
ate in that Chinese restaurant by the new build flats called Jinshi yesterday. Not bad either1
