Cat’s Lives
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Pub on Linthorpe Road. I know it from at least ‘96.
Does anyone know the history?
One of Boro’s longest running pubs?
Does anyone know the history?
One of Boro’s longest running pubs?
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johnsmithsno2
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I'd be surprised if it was.
HarryVegas
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Definitely old, mind. I remember playing there 30 years ago and it was old and scruffy then. Was The Empire then.
motownjunk
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Did it used to be Chaplins?
update looks like it was liberties in town.
update looks like it was liberties in town.
Carlos Fandango
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It used to be the Labour Club.
Norman_Conquest
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I was hoping this would be about Ernest Shackelton or his right-hand man Frank Wild who was born in Skelton.
Back to the thread - Looking at that picture, wouldn't you think the council would install a cycle lane.
Back to the thread - Looking at that picture, wouldn't you think the council would install a cycle lane.
sweet_left_foot
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The empire is the swatters Carr now isn't it?
Norman_Conquest
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That was what I was thinking.
Norman_Conquest
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Swatter Carr - This has been a public house for more than a century. Mostly, the three-storey building (which extends along Victoria Road) was the Empire (not to be confused with the nearby Empire Theatre – now a nightclub). The Empire was originally named the Empire Hotel. The building is recorded in the 1891 census as the Swatters Carr Hotel Public House – Swatters (or Swathers) Carr after the isolated farmhouse, first recorded on a map dated 1618.
sweet_left_foot
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Good. Its been 35 years since I've been in either.
HarryVegas
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Me too. I'm probably dazed and confused. Happens whenever I get up too quickly.
Norman_Conquest
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Swatters was me and my son's meeting place before the match. A few might scoff because it's a Weatherspoons but the beer was good in there and never any trouble.
Sammysmiths
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Was reopened as Chaplins late 80’s I think and my cousin Alec Mac was the first landlord. He left there to become landlord at The Cleveland for many years
It was the Middletown Social Club and then became a pub and function room called Chaplins. In the 1980s I think.
The Jenkins, father and son, had it for a while as a music pub.
I remember Senseless Things playing there at the end of 80s. When I was involved in Mbro Music Collective our PAs strained to cope with the size of the upstairs room but we did use it from time to time. Bigger capacity than old Empire.
The Jenkins, father and son, had it for a while as a music pub.
I remember Senseless Things playing there at the end of 80s. When I was involved in Mbro Music Collective our PAs strained to cope with the size of the upstairs room but we did use it from time to time. Bigger capacity than old Empire.
Fattyfoggon
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The Empire was a great pub in the late, seventies earlier eighties often would meet or start there before going to the match or the Rock Garden
Emmersons_BrazillianDong
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His son Craig is my first cousin. Small world isn't it?
Cat’s Lives
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Thanks all.
So it was Chaplins until the 90s and now IE. Must make it 30 years old?
Along with Isaac Wilsons and The Central must be one of the oldest in the town centre?
Swatters Carr used to be called the Tavern and the House back in the day(mid to late 90s).
So it was Chaplins until the 90s and now IE. Must make it 30 years old?
Along with Isaac Wilsons and The Central must be one of the oldest in the town centre?
Swatters Carr used to be called the Tavern and the House back in the day(mid to late 90s).