Nikola Zigic- FEANikola Zigic- FEAI'm not sure we can trust H to be right at the moment. You may be backing the wrong horse here.
Wrong
Hey, I am not saying you are wrong, I am just saying you have had a sensationally bad week and probably need to lay off the fscts for a while.
The ticket thing came from the club via an OSC Chair, waddya want me to do. Back in the day that sort of thread would have been praised on here, it's gone soft.
I wasn't referencing the ticketing!!
Oh shit yeah, the club shop incident 😂
Nikola Zigic- FEAYeah Hopwas is a nice area, there are some nice pubs in the town centre - The Old Bank House for instance.
The Tamworth Tap has been voted the best beer garden in the country a couple of times running I think, a lovely garden built into the castle walls. I'm not into real ale myself but it's very popular.
The castle and the castle grounds are very nice.
Agreed that the Snowdome looks tatty now, it's where my gym is and we take the babs swimming there and it's ok inside but the building itself is dirty.
The town centre had a lot of potential with old buildings etc but like a lot of towns they were flattened for brutalist shite in the 60s whereas similar places like Ashby and Lichfield kept their roots. A shame.
Shopping wise the town centre is a shit hole, I agree with that. Some surrounding estates on the edges of town are very run down, I live on the north side which is traditionally older and nicer so I don't see it.
There's certainly much, much worse places in the Midlands and within Birmingham itself.
Tamworth Tap won the award for best overall pub in th UK the past two years. I think it's a great place.
Oh really, I just thought it was the garden. That's good.
CharcyBluesince62 F.E.A.Not fussed either way about Tamworth, but think people have been harsh on the Town itself, it is what it is and it's ok. Bonus points for having an actual castle.
Very funny that Huddersfield got done though, these were the divs who were claiming they'd do both us and Wrexham a few short weeks back, for that alone, well done Tammuth.
its a bit of a mix but there are nice bits, that run of pubs around the Tame Otter and the area is nice. The town around all the leisure stuff has gotten a bit scruffy.
Seeing someone from your manor of Rugeley calling it a shithole or similar earlier in the thread seemed a bit odd. There is definitely Blues there, even if outnumbered but that is the same all over the Staffs way. There is a lot more in Lichfield than people realise.
Yes, I'm very careful of using the phrase 'it's a shithole' considering where I currently live.
Same I'm from Burntwood, it's hardly salubrious.
Is it still the springtree/field and peartree estates that are a big part of rugeley. jock and geordie mix due to the pits and powerstation.?
BRUMBEATIs it still the springtree/field and peartree estates that are a big part of rugeley. jock and geordie mix due to the pits and powerstation.?
It's been a while, but I remember those two estates well (I live just outside Stafford on the Rugeley side). I played in a band at a place, some time ago, called the Navigation - I think that was on the Springfield. It wasn't a great place (not bad though) and I think someone like the Drifters (or similar) had played there just before. I did go out with a girl from the Pear Tree very briefly - she was lovely, Italian decent, but I think she was worried about what her brothers, who were quite protective(!) might do to me. Actually, i think it was me that was more worried.
Jocks and Geordies though, yes - at least it used to be like that.
Thanks tam, the ex came from that area and always said it was a tough area more so than rough, i always and still do like the old horns up the road also eton lodge was ok..
Eaton Lodge is no more - I had my engagement party in there, although I don't think that played any part in the decision to demolish it. My father in law lived in Rugeley, although he was from Peckham - his parents were killed in WWII in a bombing raid, and he befriended a chap in the army from Rugeley. His parents took him in the after the war, so father in law ended up there. I've been in the Horns a few times - it's nice up at Slitting Mill.
What a loveley/sad story about your fil,yep noticed some years back eaton lodge had become a housing est..
Yeah, Tam's right about Roojelly (lived here since I was about 10 when Mom and Dad moved out of Brum). Was a bit like the Wild West growing up - what a mix, Brummies, locals, Geordies, Jocks came down for the pit and power station as well. Then the Cannock yamyams (if feeling brave) would sometimes pop over and inevitably get chased out again.
As a late teen it was lively in town on a Saturday night - even livelier when the flying pickets (miners, not the band) were hitting the place during the Miners strikes.
The Springies (Springfields) and the Pear tree estates were places you didn't wander around unless you were with mates from there.
Eaton Lodge (my wedding Reception) long gone but replaced by the Stags leap (decent for food). Place seems to have quietened down now as all the loons have got older, not really Sin City anymore. All the big employers are gone (Pit, Power Station, Thorn EMI, even the big Amazon w/house). The Horns is great, good ales and the food is the best in Rudge and reasonable - right next to the Horns pools and forest as well.
Mostly vile and wolves, though the Blues are around,
'Come to Rugeley and you won't see,
A Power Station or a Colliery,
We don't eat chocolate and we don't eat fudge,
We are the Zulus, from Rudge.'
😁
I have resided in Rugeley since late May 2018 and genuinely it's lovely, the kids are great and respectful, no issues, everyone is freindly especially our neighbours and around the pubs and shops etc.
Where we live it's so quiet and peaceful, no smell of dope in the air, looks like I'll retire and see out my days here.
I was born in Burntwood and its home, I lived there for 58 years but we're happy here.
A good decision.
Moved away from Rugeley a good few years ago, didn’t realise the Amazon warehouse is gone. That was the big news and purported saviour of the town back in the day.
As long as the Vine is still going I’ll always have a place to go if I find myself back in town any time
Vine is doing ok - I love it myself, proper ale brewed in it's own micro brewery next door. Really underrated boozer imo. Me and the dog love a walk down there in the summer, pint out front in the sun and then a walk around Elmore park.
Amazon didn't do much for the town in the end - it's reputation for how it treated workers meant that no locals would work there, they had to bus staff in from Walsall and Wolverhampton, mostly new arrivals to the country. No loss to us at all.