beds cherry
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That was more 50's and 60's. Lots of women due to the Lace industry. Sadly wasn't the same in the 90's!
Although the UPS call centre I was working in was a bit of a meat market
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MB1980
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Some good choices. May visit some of that shortly when I start todays workout!
Chemical Brothers sets are decent. Like you say, usually more underground sound compared to their own tracks/songs.
Yes Hot n Horny on Thursday. More commercially type dance in main room, typical pop - modern and old upstairs. Used to go there if I had Friday off work, bank holidays etc.
Dusk till Dawn was on old Millenium club site. Had expensive funktion-one sound system installed. Avoided drum n bass nights. Usually tech house/house music there most weekends. They had some very good dj's play, but would frequently be poor turn outs... particularly as wasnt that big a club anyway. Sort of names that'd have people queuing to get in, if in places like London.
Proper messy, intense atmosphere there. Particularly downstairs in the dungeon.
. Insane bass, throbbing through you. Probably not most peoples idea of a fun place to go, unless really into dance music and/or substances of some kind. Wreckheads paradise I guess... or hell. Struggling to recall tbh
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HamJDW
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I think the Pembroke was also known as Shades? It was the vogue for scousers to live in Bournemouth in the 80's and it seemed like most them took up residence in that pub.That would have been March 88, (1-2)the Daley run and dribbled shot and the Platt chip at the South end.
My dad grew up in Bourne Estate in the 60's, and his mates would always go into Bmth. Their local was the Pembroke - probably the first pub they came to LOL.
Then the Lord Nelson on the Quay for what seemed like every Sunday night when I was growing up
fritter
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The Pembroke pub was at the back and the small bar run by Jack who was partial to whiskey and a lock in. The Pembroke shades was at the front. I always saw them as 2 entirely separate places.
Worked with George for a few years. West Ham is his team.
Good job they didn't merge with Fed Ex.Although the UPS call centre I was working in was a bit of a meat market
Working for a company called FED UPS might have been interesting
MB1980
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giveittoted
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I thought it was the other way round, The Pembroke (Arms) fronting onto Poole Hill and The Pembroke Shades tucked away on West Hill Rd. As I was told (late 60's) the one on West Hill Road was a catering workers pub. It did nothing to attract general punters or holidaymakers. Having worked, in the late 60's, in a number of hotels and restaurants in Bmth on holiday/weekend jobs, you could see why some of the dodgier catering workers would want somewhere well away from holidaymakers, hotel guests or restaurant customers.
I found this on X
We were introduced by a frazzled librarian, who said "Alex, this gentleman wants to know the history of the West Cliff area" (I told him about the Pembroke Shades, the most violent pub in B'mth, closed in a police raid in 1990. Now the Goat & Tricycle ...)
SlowDownDerek
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I remember looking into that a few years back and it's all a big connected mess in that block. I think there are three separate establishments, which have been connected at various times in history. Pembroke Hotel at the front and two pubs at the back (now combined as the Goat and Tricycle).
If you look at the listed buildings list
41-45 Poole Hill is listed with 17-21 West Hill Road; 5-11 Poole Hill is listed with 39-41 West Hill Road. 27-29 West Hill Road is the former Pembroke Arms and 13-31 Poole Hill is the former Pembroke Hotel.
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fritter
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The entrance to the Pembroke Arms was definitely round the back, as it says in West Hill Road. Maybe that was a separate entrance to both the Pembroke shades and the Pembroke hotel? It was a very small bar, probably same door as the goat and tricycle. I don't recall a walk through. Although there was a tiny upstairs room up some rickety stairs which housed a folk club and some nights some of the BSO used to practice up there.
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SlowDownDerek
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Was it not just two separate pubs next to each other? It still looks like two separate pubs tbf.
zigger zaggar
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The Shades was definitely on West Hill Road and the entrance to the Pembroke Arms was definitely on Poole Hill when I used to go in there for an underage pint on a Saturday after visiting Armadillo Records. They were all kind of connected though and the courtyard which is used by the G&T had the stairs up to that old function room that I remember going to the occasional gig.
beds cherry
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Yes I think the Pembroke days ended mid 80's. Dad took up running and less drinking.
Well if you know running clubs - slightly less drinking
beds cherry
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When my dad & his mates were in there, the landlord was a brummie called Perry, a villa fan. They all went to watch the league cup final in 74 v Norwich with him.
fritter
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Free Express Folk Club / BC Club / Wessex Traditional Folk Club / Pembroke Arms, 29-29 West Hill Road, Triangle, Bournemouth
The Goat and Tricycle formerly the Pembroke Arms (Photograph John Cherry).
Built around the 1860s, the Pembroke Arms and the Pembroke Shades were originally two separate premises. The Arms was a stand alone pub (on the left of the above photograph) and the Shades was connected to the Pembroke Hotel (the building on the right) which had its main entrance in the Triangle (see photograph below). The hotel became the the Hotel Cosmopolitan in the 1980s but finally closed its doors for good in the 1990s. The two bars are now one pub trading as the Goat and Tricycle and have been been a Grade 2 listed building since 1984. In the late sixties and seventies the Pembroke Arms was home to the very successful Wessex Traditional Folk Club on Friday nights, the BC Club on Wednesday’s and the Free Express Folk Club every Sunday. Founded in the summer of 1970, the Free Express Folk Club was organised by John Dowell and the maker of Bond Guitars, as played by Mick Jones of The Clash, Andy Bond. Over the years, they booked Mike Silver, Derek Brimstone, Martin McCarthy, Martin Simpson and Decameron on a regular basis. Another regular was John St. Field, who changed his name to Jackie Leven and formed the hard edged Doll by Doll in 1977 with Wimborne resident Jo Shaw.
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The Goat and Tricycle formerly the Pembroke Arms (Photograph John Cherry).
Built around the 1860s, the Pembroke Arms and the Pembroke Shades were originally two separate premises. The Arms was a stand alone pub (on the left of the above photograph) and the Shades was connected to the Pembroke Hotel (the building on the right) which had its main entrance in the Triangle (see photograph below). The hotel became the the Hotel Cosmopolitan in the 1980s but finally closed its doors for good in the 1990s. The two bars are now one pub trading as the Goat and Tricycle and have been been a Grade 2 listed building since 1984. In the late sixties and seventies the Pembroke Arms was home to the very successful Wessex Traditional Folk Club on Friday nights, the BC Club on Wednesday’s and the Free Express Folk Club every Sunday. Founded in the summer of 1970, the Free Express Folk Club was organised by John Dowell and the maker of Bond Guitars, as played by Mick Jones of The Clash, Andy Bond. Over the years, they booked Mike Silver, Derek Brimstone, Martin McCarthy, Martin Simpson and Decameron on a regular basis. Another regular was John St. Field, who changed his name to Jackie Leven and formed the hard edged Doll by Doll in 1977 with Wimborne resident Jo Shaw.
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SlowDownDerek
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Free Express Folk Club / BC Club / Wessex Traditional Folk Club / Pembroke Arms, 29-29 West Hill Road, Triangle, Bournemouth
The Goat and Tricycle formerly the Pembroke Arms (Photograph John Cherry).
Built around the 1860s, the Pembroke Arms and the Pembroke Shades were originally two separate premises. The Arms was a stand alone pub (on the left of the above photograph) and the Shades was connected to the Pembroke Hotel (the building on the right) which had its main entrance in the Triangle (see photograph below). The hotel became the the Hotel Cosmopolitan in the 1980s but finally closed its doors for good in the 1990s. The two bars are now one pub trading as the Goat and Tricycle and have been been a Grade 2 listed building since 1984. In the late sixties and seventies the Pembroke Arms was home to the very successful Wessex Traditional Folk Club on Friday nights, the BC Club on Wednesday’s and the Free Express Folk Club every Sunday. Founded in the summer of 1970, the Free Express Folk Club was organised by John Dowell and the maker of Bond Guitars, as played by Mick Jones of The Clash, Andy Bond. Over the years, they booked Mike Silver, Derek Brimstone, Martin McCarthy, Martin Simpson and Decameron on a regular basis. Another regular was John St. Field, who changed his name to Jackie Leven and formed the hard edged Doll by Doll in 1977 with Wimborne resident Jo Shaw.
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Great site that. This is the image
HamJDW
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Thanks for posting that Fritter. Wonderful site! A young Keith Moon would have been with The Beachcombers in Boscombe. Didn't realise Lagland Street in Poole had such a rich music history. Hard to imagine the the original Drifters playing at Hamworthy Lib!!Free Express Folk Club / BC Club / Wessex Traditional Folk Club / Pembroke Arms, 29-29 West Hill Road, Triangle, Bournemouth
The Goat and Tricycle formerly the Pembroke Arms (Photograph John Cherry).
Built around the 1860s, the Pembroke Arms and the Pembroke Shades were originally two separate premises. The Arms was a stand alone pub (on the left of the above photograph) and the Shades was connected to the Pembroke Hotel (the building on the right) which had its main entrance in the Triangle (see photograph below). The hotel became the the Hotel Cosmopolitan in the 1980s but finally closed its doors for good in the 1990s. The two bars are now one pub trading as the Goat and Tricycle and have been been a Grade 2 listed building since 1984. In the late sixties and seventies the Pembroke Arms was home to the very successful Wessex Traditional Folk Club on Friday nights, the BC Club on Wednesday’s and the Free Express Folk Club every Sunday. Founded in the summer of 1970, the Free Express Folk Club was organised by John Dowell and the maker of Bond Guitars, as played by Mick Jones of The Clash, Andy Bond. Over the years, they booked Mike Silver, Derek Brimstone, Martin McCarthy, Martin Simpson and Decameron on a regular basis. Another regular was John St. Field, who changed his name to Jackie Leven and formed the hard edged Doll by Doll in 1977 with Wimborne resident Jo Shaw.
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zigger zaggar
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Ah yes that's it! The pub with it's entrance on Poole Hill where that DYMK is now was called simply the Pembroke or maybe the Pembroke Hotel IIRC. The Shades and the Arms were next to each other on West Hill Road. Three separate pubs all Pembroke Something Or Other all connected.Free Express Folk Club / BC Club / Wessex Traditional Folk Club / Pembroke Arms, 29-29 West Hill Road, Triangle, Bournemouth
The Goat and Tricycle formerly the Pembroke Arms (Photograph John Cherry).
Built around the 1860s, the Pembroke Arms and the Pembroke Shades were originally two separate premises. The Arms was a stand alone pub (on the left of the above photograph) and the Shades was connected to the Pembroke Hotel (the building on the right) which had its main entrance in the Triangle (see photograph below). The hotel became the the Hotel Cosmopolitan in the 1980s but finally closed its doors for good in the 1990s. The two bars are now one pub trading as the Goat and Tricycle and have been been a Grade 2 listed building since 1984. In the late sixties and seventies the Pembroke Arms was home to the very successful Wessex Traditional Folk Club on Friday nights, the BC Club on Wednesday’s and the Free Express Folk Club every Sunday. Founded in the summer of 1970, the Free Express Folk Club was organised by John Dowell and the maker of Bond Guitars, as played by Mick Jones of The Clash, Andy Bond. Over the years, they booked Mike Silver, Derek Brimstone, Martin McCarthy, Martin Simpson and Decameron on a regular basis. Another regular was John St. Field, who changed his name to Jackie Leven and formed the hard edged Doll by Doll in 1977 with Wimborne resident Jo Shaw.
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