primrose, Newtown

loiner99 · Post by **loiner99** » Tue 16 Nov, 2010 10:38 pm

As a new member I have just been browsing some of the messages and someone reminisces (if thats the right word) about the Primrose pub however I know a different "Primrose". One that my parents used to run, in the late fifties, early sixties, up near the skinners arms in Newtown. It was a good old no frills community pub in an area of back to backs which were all cleared (including the pub) in the early/mid sixties. I still have an old b/w photo of the pub with a my parents and a bunch of regulars on the steps.Also at this time my auntie and uncle ran the "Black Horse" in Mabgate

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Tue 16 Nov, 2010 11:26 pm

Wasn't it on the site of what is now Lincoln Green estate?

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Tue 16 Nov, 2010 11:59 pm

http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... 2437686Are this lot owt to do with you Loiner.?Looks lke Geordie Exile was bang on target !

loiner99 · Post by **loiner99** » Wed 01 Dec, 2010 6:09 pm

The photo from Geordie is of another day. It seems it was the same pub but we were the to see its demise as the bulldozers moved in we were one of the last to go. Still serving the needs of the community (and the many demolition workers) I never knew wether it was on Primrose street or Pollard street as it had doors either side. With a little outsales door for the takeaway jugs to be filled and the kids to get packets of Crisps and I seem to remember Nibbits

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Wed 01 Dec, 2010 8:30 pm

what were, are Nibbits? I don't remember them ,or did you mean Niblets Loiner?reading the thread it must have been a good little boozer.

loiner99 · Post by **loiner99** » Wed 01 Dec, 2010 8:45 pm

Do I mean Niblets, maybe I do the memory plays tricks. Whatever they were I remember being allowed to dip them in Eggflip. Maybe the memory loss is kicking in again because Eggflip seems too posh a drink for a Fifties spit and sawdust pub. Could it have been Advocaat ? I dont drink now so dont know if it is still sold

jim · Post by **jim** » Wed 01 Dec, 2010 10:06 pm

I remember them as Nibbits. They were a packet of short, fat, cheesy straw type of nibbles, if I've got it right, Loiner99.

iansmithofotley · Post by **iansmithofotley** » Thu 02 Dec, 2010 8:43 pm

Hi jim,I, too, can remember 'Nibbits' in the early 1950's. You are right with your description. I remember them as not being straight, but slightly 'curly' and they were all different shapes, about 1/4" wide and up to about 2" long. My parents used to buy me them at the local working men's club, along with a bottle of Portello.Ian

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Thu 02 Dec, 2010 9:56 pm

looks like Nibbits are now only made abroad:http://www.typicaldutchstuff.com/smiths ... 2fld5owned by Frito Lay company in USA now.