the_holgate_roof
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Yeah, think it was Malones Pizza shop for a while, then that moved over the road further up Wilson St.Bar fresco was turned into a Pizza Shop (or did i just imagine that?)
Yeah, think it was Malones Pizza shop for a while, then that moved over the road further up Wilson St.Bar fresco was turned into a Pizza Shop (or did i just imagine that?)
It was 1.50 trebles when I first started going out, it was great. used to go either there or madison for 50p hooch before empireI always remember it being hit and miss whether Bar Fresco was open or not in the early 2000's. I remember being out on a Monday or Tuesday and it'd be open, back out on a Friday and it'd be closed. We'd always head over that way for £2.50 trebles and then head over to the Royal Exchange before going down to Jumpin' Jacks. It was so much better for a night out than it is now.
The renovation round there is badly needed so this is certainly welcome and hopefully it'll lead to a nicer walk down to the Riverside on a matchday. Whichever way you walk at the moment seems to be full of derelict buildings or graffiti everywhere.
The people repairing the Station car park wanted to fill the cornerhouse with concrete as a cheap option but were denied permission.Did anybody else hear the story that they were going to fill the entire Cornerhouse with cement?
That building is being renovated and turned back into office space.What a dump the old Wickers World building is over the road as well.
the entrance/exit was on the corner of the building. There was the main bar on the right side of the building and a smaller bar to the back left. The dj booth was somewhere around the middle of the venue.worth noting the fresco building is 4000 square foot total which is about 371 square meters, so about the size of 3 detached 4 bed houses in Teesside - some of that will be store rooms and office etc but I cant see a pizza shop taking up that entire unit even if their sign is wrapped all the way around it. I don't remember bar fresco even taking up the entire unit, I recall you went in / out via the door on the left hand side and bar was on the right hand side?
There we go! Put that to bed!Late 80's early 90's what became Fresco was Malones. It was massive and you could sit in. I went most Saturdays after work before going in the snooker place over Dundas Arcade. I distinctly recall watching a lass coming out of The Old Mint and gyrating herself on one of the old Victorian bollards outside. I remember a place called The Waffle Iron under the flyover nearby too. Dutch pancakes and the like.
The problem with all that area is elephant in the room which is the abomination known as the fly over. I would be reluctant to see any significant investment in that area until that was removed. Who on earth is going to want to sit on those seats with all the pollution from the fly over around. It would be interesting to see if the council even considered air quality before spending on that new seating area
I thought Fresco became Malones but my memory is not what it was.There we go! Put that to bed!
There is 3 years between the streetview pics in 2009 showing bar fresco livery and 2012 which shows ancient looking malones livery with the fresco signage taken down. Malones would have to have opened up, **** down almost immediately and rotted for that 3 years for it to look like that imo. News articles also refer to it as bar fresco building, not malones pizzeria building, which suggests that's what it most recently was and with the poster above saying it was a sit in place, I'd fully remember that if it was post 2000 but 80s/90s I'd have had no interest so the timelines match upI thought Fresco became Malones but my memory is not what it was.
I went in both but cant remember which way round. Malones did move to a smaller shop on Wilson street though so would make sense Fresco was after.There is 3 years between the streetview pics in 2009 showing bar fresco livery and 2012 which shows ancient looking malones livery with the fresco signage taken down. Malones would have to have opened up, **** down almost immediately and rotted for that 3 years for it to look like that imo. News articles also refer to it as bar fresco building, not malones pizzeria building, which suggests that's what it most recently was and with the poster above saying it was a sit in place, I'd fully remember that if it was post 2000 but 80s/90s I'd have had no interest so the timelines match up
If you look closely at the malones signs you can see stuff has been stuck on the top of it which is probably the black bar fresco signs
I’m afraid you’d need to live in the south east for that scale of investment.The flyover is an eye saw. Would be amazing if they could replace that section of the 66 with a a tunnel
The best we could hope for would be for the A66 to be rerouted to its original plan, which was through Riverside Park industrial estate, and the A66 flyover becoming a tramway/garden bridge as part of a new improved integrated Teesside transport infrastructure.I’m afraid you’d need to live in the south east for that scale of investment.
thanks for confirming, surprised no photos of it online that I can seeJust learned Royal Exchange has shut down . Seriously, moved away 2000 and never been out in boro since. Definitely remember Malones under flyover so must have been late 90s. It was huge for a pizza shop, not surprised they moved somewhere smaller.