Lost pubs in the Southend area

[Rob Noxious]

It's a long while since I've lived in the Borough/City but I had a memory (from where I know not quite why) of a small pub on the arterial road just east of The Fairway junction and before the Progress Road junction. It had a bar on the right which had a pool table in. I went there in 1979 but don't recall seeing it for many years since. Was it called 'The Fairway'? I tried looking it up on 'the google' without any clues arising. Do any older 'Zoners recall it?

 

[Benfleet A1]

Yep, it was The Fairway, white building with green/gold signage as I recall. Think it's a block of flats now.

 

[Tinks]

Yep - it was called the Fairway - used to go there a bit and it is all flats now

 

[Rob Noxious]

Thanks Al and Jackie. I only went there once and didn't stay for long but the memory of it just came into my mind for some reason and I was curious as to what became of the place.

Here's another ... the Cork and Cheese down below in the Vic Circus development. I haven't been there in years. Is the pub still there?

 

[Mad Cyril]

Thanks Al and Jackie. I only went there once and didn't stay for long but the memory of it just came into my mind for some reason and I was curious as to what became of the place.

Here's another ... the Cork and Cheese down below in the Vic Circus development. I haven't been there in years. Is the pub still there?

The pub is gone but the space it occupied is still there. I tried peeking through a gap in the shuttering but couldn’t see if the bar and fittings were still there.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Thanks Al and Jackie. I only went there once and didn't stay for long but the memory of it just came into my mind for some reason and I was curious as to what became of the place.

Here's another ... the Cork and Cheese down below in the Vic Circus development. I haven't been there in years. Is the pub still there?

Hi Rob. This is from the Southend Echo.

Said to be Southend's best-known real ale pub, the Cork and Cheese in the Victoria Plaza shopping centre closed its doors in 2007.

At the time, landlord John Murray said trade had dropped during the Victoria Plaza redevelopment scheme, which disrupted trade. With the subsequent ban on smoking in public places looming, the landlord decided to call it a day.

The pub was later demolished.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Thanks Al and Jackie. I only went there once and didn't stay for long but the memory of it just came into my mind for some reason and I was curious as to what became of the place.

Here's another ... the Cork and Cheese down below in the Vic Circus development. I haven't been there in years. Is the pub still there?

It's funny, I don't remember The Fairway at all, despite presumably having passed by many times, to and from the 29 bus stops from where I lived in Grovewood Avenue usually having gone via a friend's house in Pargate Drive.

I do remember the Cork and Cheese. Used to be one of our go tos after work for a good old session when I worked at the old Midland Bank in the High Street - spent many a drunken Friday night in there in the mid to late 80s! Paul Miller used to be the landlord back then, he sold up and moved out to Le Touquet.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Here's another ... the Cork and Cheese down below in the Vic Circus development.

Which was initially named 'The Joint & Jar' when it first opened in the 70's.

 

[rigsby]

It's a long while since I've lived in the Borough/City but I had a memory (from where I know not quite why) of a small pub on the arterial road just east of The Fairway junction and before the Progress Road junction. It had a bar on the right which had a pool table in. I went there in 1979 but don't recall seeing it for many years since. Was it called 'The Fairway'? I tried looking it up on 'the google' without any clues arising. Do any older 'Zoners recall it?

Yes The Fairway. I seem to remember more than one pool table.

Back in the early 80's us lads would pile into someones Cortina or Capri and head off to the Fairway as it was the easiest place to get some cue time without having to wait 5 or 6 games.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Thanks, my fellow 'Zoners, for the above information.

I remember having a cheeky pint before (playing) a game for Southend Collegians in early '81 at a pub near Garons Park. Was it The White Horse or The Golden Goblet? I can't recall. I think it must also be gone now as when I was last driving around there in October, I couldn't see it (sadly).

This list came up in my search for info. >

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/19469998.16-forgotten-pubs-now-closed-southend/

 

[kaymac]

Golden Goblet became the Rusty Bucket and is now MacDonalds.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Golden Goblet became the Rusty Bucket and is now MacDonalds.

It wasn't a great pub by any stretch but it deserved better than that.

Thanks for the knowledge though, kaymac.

 

[Mr Plow]

Golden Goblet became the Rusty Bucket and is now MacDonalds.

It also went under the name 'The Invisible Man' as well (it's last name before being demolished I think?).

 

[Mad Cyril]

Golden Goblet became the Rusty Bucket and is now MacDonalds.

It was a dump.

 

[LCBB72]

I am sure that before the Fairway became a pub it used to be some sort of club .

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

I seem to remember its predecessor being something called the double six or something like that. Lots of jags outside which I still associate with dodgy dealing although BMW seems to be the car of choice now.
My abiding memory of the Fairway was it was where a team I used to play with in the Borough Comb went for a drink after so called training. Bob the manager was a real character but a lot of tragedy in his life. His wife was murdered he developed heart trouble married a nurse and eventually died. Anyway my first son was very ill when born. He actually died but they got him going again and I've now got 4 grandchildren from him. He was in the London hospital and my wife was staying on the ward with him. I told Bob all this and said he'd got respitory distress. Bob said that's what you get every Saturday. Absolutely the right thing to say. He lifted a hell of a lot of gloom. Great bloke.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

It was a dump.

The go to pub after Sunday morning football at the Youth Commemoration Ground now called Waitrose.

 

[PrawNZ]

Foresters!

 

[TrueBlue]

Use to drink in ‘Motels’ which became ‘Charlie’s Bar’ far too much £1 a pint though!

 

[Mad Cyril]

Drummonds
The Ivy House
Monk and Fisherman