Well the Brown Cow in the picture is probably the nearest one to NB57, in Bebington. Been shut for the last 12 months or so. Always a bad pub. don’t recall them ever having a football team
2 March 2014
CHARLES EXFORD
That’s the pub that was owned by the boxer who worked as a ‘Bruiser McHuge’ for a drugs gang, and who got murdered in Cornwall in 2011 by the fella who owed the gang a shedload of money, who he (the boxer/landlord of the Brown Cow) was trying to blackmail into going back to Brazil for another non-fair-trade coke run to settle his debts.
Just another day on the ‘roids in sunny Bebington.
2 March 2014
Justmark
That over-designed brick entrance looks like it’s designed to funnel victims into the doorman’s lair.
3 March 2014
Eugene C
Ah ha I’ve spotted that it conceals a ramp, presumably for the use of customers in prams or wheelchairs
3 March 2014
Justmark
Unless there’s a further step at the door entrance, the ramp appears to climb only as high as a single kerbstone. A dropped kerb would have done the same job. What a strange word ‘kerb’ is when you say it more than twice.
3 March 2014
CHARLES EXFORD
OK then let’s really talk pub entrance options. Looks like the place might have been first built with a revolving door, very posh in 1960, but presumably having mixed results after the clientele have enjoyed a few shandies.
It all makes sense with a little context! Love the Brown Cow 3D sign. One of my locals had a revolving door on the vault (the main lounge had a normal door) which might suggest they weren’t considered quite as swish back in the day.
4 March 2014
Ron Moohead
The brown ones don’t dance as well as the black ones
Went to the Dun Cow at Brinklow in the early eighties on the great Mick Pegg’s stag do, It soon degenerated into farce, Freery goes beserk. Mayhem. Police cars.
8 March 2014
Eric olthwaite
@M Exford. Cows have udder what’s, dough?
(Got me coat aleady)
8 March 2014
Eric olthwaite
That’s Mr Exford, not ‘M’.
8 March 2014
Half Matt, half Byrne
In relation to the North West drug trades coming down to the pots of the South West ridge, around the time of that article I served a bloke with a thick scouse accent some meat from the butchery counter. He was accompanied by an Irish woman with an eye patch! A short time after, the drugs ring was busted in a sting on the motorway near Exeter.
26 March 2020
EXXO
Gotta love the Sunday leagues. My days are long gone now, but was watching Mrs E in goal for her team the other week, 8-1 ahead when the oppo threw their toys in, throwing punches all over the shop, undercurrents of racism and all. One of their players was banned from the oppo’s next game but we were just looking online at what happened in that next game, last weekend, and the player who took the place of the banned one was the female spectator who had run on and beat up Mrs E’s skipper in such a truly ruthless manner that suggested she’d been professionally trained to hurt people badly and is currently the subject of possible criminal charges.
6 October 2020
EXXO
Forgot to finish that by saying why I started writing in the first place, which was that facebook stalking the assailant you see she had a chequered career in yes you guessed it, door security.
6 October 2020
EXXO
The local FA finally came through today with their verdict on the above incident, and the bruiser got an eight-match ban (together with three matches for another player). I have honestly never seen such justice in over thirty years “in and around” the Sunday Leagues.
2 December 2020
dr desperate
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edward mccrae
Well the Brown Cow in the picture is probably the nearest one to NB57, in Bebington. Been shut for the last 12 months or so. Always a bad pub. don’t recall them ever having a football team
2 March 2014
CHARLES EXFORD
That’s the pub that was owned by the boxer who worked as a ‘Bruiser McHuge’ for a drugs gang, and who got murdered in Cornwall in 2011 by the fella who owed the gang a shedload of money, who he (the boxer/landlord of the Brown Cow) was trying to blackmail into going back to Brazil for another non-fair-trade coke run to settle his debts.
Just another day on the ‘roids in sunny Bebington.
2 March 2014
Justmark
That over-designed brick entrance looks like it’s designed to funnel victims into the doorman’s lair.
3 March 2014
Eugene C
Ah ha I’ve spotted that it conceals a ramp, presumably for the use of customers in prams or wheelchairs
3 March 2014
Justmark
Unless there’s a further step at the door entrance, the ramp appears to climb only as high as a single kerbstone. A dropped kerb would have done the same job. What a strange word ‘kerb’ is when you say it more than twice.
3 March 2014
CHARLES EXFORD
OK then let’s really talk pub entrance options. Looks like the place might have been first built with a revolving door, very posh in 1960, but presumably having mixed results after the clientele have enjoyed a few shandies.
http://www.20thcenturyimages.co.uk/trolleyed/4/23/1690/index.htm
3 March 2014
JUSTMARK
It all makes sense with a little context! Love the Brown Cow 3D sign. One of my locals had a revolving door on the vault (the main lounge had a normal door) which might suggest they weren’t considered quite as swish back in the day.
4 March 2014
Ron Moohead
The brown ones don’t dance as well as the black ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY
7 March 2014
BrumBiscuit
Warwick has a Dun Cow, does that count? More a music venue than football though.
7 March 2014
CHARLES EXFORD
Cows have udders though.
7 March 2014
Bobby SVARC
Went to the Dun Cow at Brinklow in the early eighties on the great Mick Pegg’s stag do, It soon degenerated into farce, Freery goes beserk. Mayhem. Police cars.
8 March 2014
Eric olthwaite
@M Exford. Cows have udder what’s, dough?
(Got me coat aleady)
8 March 2014
Eric olthwaite
That’s Mr Exford, not ‘M’.
8 March 2014
Half Matt, half Byrne
In relation to the North West drug trades coming down to the pots of the South West ridge, around the time of that article I served a bloke with a thick scouse accent some meat from the butchery counter. He was accompanied by an Irish woman with an eye patch! A short time after, the drugs ring was busted in a sting on the motorway near Exeter.
26 March 2020
EXXO
Gotta love the Sunday leagues. My days are long gone now, but was watching Mrs E in goal for her team the other week, 8-1 ahead when the oppo threw their toys in, throwing punches all over the shop, undercurrents of racism and all. One of their players was banned from the oppo’s next game but we were just looking online at what happened in that next game, last weekend, and the player who took the place of the banned one was the female spectator who had run on and beat up Mrs E’s skipper in such a truly ruthless manner that suggested she’d been professionally trained to hurt people badly and is currently the subject of possible criminal charges.
6 October 2020
EXXO
Forgot to finish that by saying why I started writing in the first place, which was that facebook stalking the assailant you see she had a chequered career in yes you guessed it, door security.
6 October 2020
EXXO
The local FA finally came through today with their verdict on the above incident, and the bruiser got an eight-match ban (together with three matches for another player). I have honestly never seen such justice in over thirty years “in and around” the Sunday Leagues.
2 December 2020
dr desperate
“The first time I met my wife I knew she was a keeper. She was wearing massive gloves”
(Alun Cochrane, quoted in a recently-repeated Pointless Celebrities Christmas special.)
31 December 2020