Re: Over 40s bars/cattle market city centre

Rags

Albert - Lord Birmingham

Spike

number8

The Custard House 40 years ago

WHAT a pub.

RIP.

Whatever rough pub people can tell me they used to drink in "back in the day" - I can always pull out my Custard House card and know it can't be trumped.

The Happy Trooper, the Broadway & The Merrymaker were rougher in my opinion. Having said that, as a person that has drank in most rough pubs in Birmingham over the years, it depends what night and who is in there as far as pubs being rougher than each other.

In my younger days I drank in Costermongers which had a bit of a reputation but I can’t say I saw anything bad happen in there.

I think it all depends on your age ..... many pubs go through phases of being fine and then bloody awful ... so depends which years you were frequenting them

for example ... The Windsor in Cannon Street in the 70s - if you used the entrance that was in Needless Alley to get into the back lounge you usually wouldn't be allowed in as someone was always on "lookout". Once whatever "deal" was going on had been completed then he lowered his arm and let you in.

You could buy car radios so cheap in there that you could make a decent profit reselling them.

I hear it's quite posh in there now