RE: THE BEEHIVE SOHO HILL HOCKLEY - 2

#16 by astoness , Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:38 pm

pic 7

#17 by astoness , Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:42 pm

and this one in much happier times...regulars outside the pub before setting off for a day trip..i love this one

#18 by astoness , Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:46 pm

last one too large this should be better..would love to put names to the faces on this one..

#19 by Slow Jo , Fri Jan 10, 2014 7:32 pm

So sad to see the old beehive like that,when I was a kid a old lady who lived two doors up from us use to ask me friday night to get her 2 bottles of nourishing stout,the beehive had a side entry which ran right down to terrace road ,so we did'nt have to go on the main roads,she use to give me 3 pence each time I went,happy days,and let me have the money off the
empties..

My sisters first job when she left school was at dennisons the factory next door.

#20 by astoness , Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:32 pm

jo you are quite right of course about terrace road...i noticed that when i went round the back way..how strange it that because in the past few days your sister is the second person ive heard of whos first job was at dennisons..and yes it is so sad to see the pub in such a state..

#21 by Sheldonboy , Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:20 pm

What a sad end to an old pub. What amazes me is that someone owns these sites before they are allowed to fall into this state.

#22 by astoness , Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:31 pm

I've contacted mitchells and butlers to see if they still own the site...

#23 by The Mitz , Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:45 am

They don't care really, because it's just real estate.
In Shirley on the Stratford Road there is the old CEGB Offices that were bought by a supermarket years ago because they didn't want another supermarket to be able to buy it. It's a mess, and it will always be a mess because they won't spend money on it.

#24 by Sheldonboy , Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:20 pm

Very true those offices have been empty for many years.

#25 by Slow Jo , Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:02 pm

There is a part of telford called hadley ,recently been re developed a super market was invited to have a site there ,tesco said yes providing the council don't allow another one near there for at least 5 years.

#26 by Voltman , Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:28 pm

I can travel five miles to avoid Tesco.
There is one 1000 yards away that I won't use.

#27 by Sheldonboy , Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:29 am

Volty you can travel five miles to avoid me

#28 by Voltman , Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:31 am

If I went five miles it might put me in town.
You are unavoidble in town so I wouldn't take the chance.

#29 by Sheldonboy , Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:07 pm

You could go to town now, I don't think I am there at the moment.

#30 by Voltman , Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:23 pm

You will be.

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