A pint at Crewe

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A pint at Crewe

Post by stansoffstump » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:20 pm

Going to Crewe on Saturday. Does anyone have any tips for a pint before the match. Last time we went we ended up in the South St Club but it now looks like just a snooker club. If I remember rightly we got beat on the day with Ade & Gifton up front, both looking as if they'd never seen a football before never mind played with one!

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Local cricketer » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:29 pm

Hope the chippy is still going. Was a highlight off any trip to crewe back in the day

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by ClaretTony » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:37 pm

Local cricketer wrote:Hope the chippy is still going. Was a highlight off any trip to crewe back in the day
Went for an under-23 game and the chippy wasn't very good

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Crewe claret » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:38 pm

If you turn left out of gresty road onto nantwich road and go to the traffic lights there is a pub called the Cheshire inn or go straight across at the traffic lights and about 200 yards there is a bar called The Beer Dock that sells craft beer,I live in Crewe so I speak from experience !,

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Leisure » Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:27 pm

Crewe claret wrote:If you turn left out of gresty road onto nantwich road and go to the traffic lights there is a pub called the Cheshire inn or go straight across at the traffic lights and about 200 yards there is a bar called The Beer Dock that sells craft beer,I live in Crewe so I speak from experience !,
Is there a Wetherspoons? :D
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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:33 pm

Would think it would be prime for a top quality spoons on the station tbh

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Crewe claret » Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:34 pm

Leisure wrote:Is there a Wetherspoons? :D
Unfortunately yes
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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:38 pm

Crewe claret wrote:Unfortunately yes
Does it spoil the otherwise rural idyll of a major national rail hub? ;) :lol:

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by dougcollins » Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:02 pm

Is the fine little bar on the station still there?

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by CaptJohn » Wed Jul 17, 2019 7:57 pm

Leave the "Chippy" alone. My Uncle used to own it, god rest his soul.
My cousin, who inherited it, was not really interested and flogged it.
Haven't been in there since I went in after we lost in the dark days leading up to the Orient Match. My Uncle, who was an Evertonian, just gave me a bag of chips and said nothing. Wise man!

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Quicknick » Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:04 pm

I was a student there in the early 80s. Okay, things change, but there used to be a right rough and ready boozer on the main road just up from the ground: The British Lion. What's more it's still there. I've just checked on GoogleMaps. Turn left at the end of Gresty Road on to the A534, and a couple of minutes walk will bring you to it. It's on the left.

Good choice going to Crewe and not Vale.

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Crewe claret » Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:42 pm

Quicknick wrote:I was a student there in the early 80s. Okay, things change, but there used to be a right rough and ready boozer on the main road just up from the ground: The British Lion. What's more it's still there. I've just checked on GoogleMaps. Turn left at the end of Gresty Road on to the A534, and a couple of minutes walk will bring you to it. It's on the left.

Good choice going to Crewe and not Vale.
That pub is still going and it's nicknamed The Pig for obvious reasons ,you get some rough customers in there

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Herts Clarets » Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:52 pm

My first visit to Crewe was 85/6 season. I travelled with Nelson Gasworkers and we stopped in Sandbach. For about 2 hours. When we pulled up at the ground, a copper opened the coach door, smelt ale on Andy Brennan and promptly nicked him. Anyone else fancy saying something goes the same way as your leader. The warmest of welcomes to Gresty Rd.

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Quicknick » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:03 pm

Crewe claret wrote:That pub is still going and it's nicknamed The Pig for obvious reasons ,you get some rough customers in there
I got that impression. It was after our finals in 1983. A pub I used to really like was the Hop Pole. Remember it, Crewe Claret?

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by burnmark » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:04 pm

Crewe claret wrote:That pub is still going and it's nicknamed The Pig for obvious reasons ,you get some rough customers in there
Is ‘The Barrell’ still open? I was a student in Alsager and used to go in there if we popped over to watch a Crewe game midweek for something to do.

There was also ‘Steam’ Nightclub in the town centre - goodness me. That attracted a certain clientele!! Always remember going there for the first time and Jimmy Quinn the ex Reading striker was on the door.

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Quicknick » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:57 pm

burnmark wrote:Is ‘The Barrell’ still open? I was a student in Alsager and used to go in there if we popped over to watch a Crewe game midweek for something to do.

There was also ‘Steam’ Nightclub in the town centre - goodness me. That attracted a certain clientele!! Always remember going there for the first time and Jimmy Quinn the ex Reading striker was on the door.
Burnmark, you were a student at Alsager College? So was I. When did you go?

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Crewe claret » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:18 pm

Quicknick wrote:I got that impression. It was after our finals in 1983. A pub I used to really like was the Hop Pole. Remember it, Crewe Claret?
Ha my brother used to live opposite the Hop Pole it used to be my second home before I got married ,its still going strong very popular
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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by burnmark » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:20 pm

Quicknick wrote:Burnmark, you were a student at Alsager College? So was I. When did you go?
2001-4
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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Quicknick » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:31 pm

Crewe claret wrote:Ha my brother used to live opposite the Hop Pole it used to be my second home before I got married ,its still going strong very popular
It was a fantastic pub. I used to share a terraced house on Richard Street ... with two Blackburn Rovers fans and one girl. Imagine: in 1979-80, we went down to division 3, they went the other way. Two really good lads, though. One of them, Frank, sadly died of cancer in 1986 aged 34.

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by Quicknick » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:32 pm

burnmark wrote:2001-4
1979-83 me.

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Re: A pint at Crewe

Post by stansoffstump » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:55 pm

Hey thanks creweclaret ,we may even try them both!

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