**STOP PRESS** Spread Eagle public house being refurbed!

[GNH]

I drove past our beloved drinking establishment earlier to day to find it is closed for 1 week for refurbishemnt.

Is this the first time in living memory that it is being "done up"? What will it look like afterwards? Will there still be plastic glasses?

So many questions.....I want answers!

 

[Smiffy]

Yep. It's having a complete re-fit by all accounts.

Hopefully it will be a bit more modern.

 

[bucket&spade.f.c]

Well as I seem to spend far to much time in there lately for some reason - i have seen the plans and personally I dont think it will look much different just cleaner :)

Plastic until she can apply for her new licence or something but she is pushing for glasses on match day

Also having a party on the 28th after it reopens

 

[DoDTS]

I remember when the Spread had three bars Public, Saloon and Private.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Not before time.Here's to real glasses at the Spread.:thumbsup:

 

[tottenham541]

and they still wont get sky sports:thumbdown:

 

[markw]

and they still wont get sky sports:thumbdown:

why should they get sky :P we are very rarely on it

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

and they still wont get sky sports:thumbdown:

Last time we played at Orient (28/12/09) i asked the landlord in the Coach and Horses why he did'nt have it any more, as the season before it was showing a game. He said the license fee for a pub had shot up to around £17k per year and as the pub only got a decent crowd in for Orient home games, it was'nt worth his while.
Unless the Spread has a function of some kind going on, i doubt they get the numbers in on a sunday afternoon, monday/tuesday night etc, that they do when we are at home so its not worth their while.

 

[pickledseal]

Last time we played at Orient (28/12/09) i asked the landlord in the Coach and Horses why he did'nt have it any more, as the season before it was showing a game. He said the license fee for a pub had shot up to around £17k per year and as the pub only got a decent crowd in for Orient home games, it was'nt worth his while.
Unless the Spread has a function of some kind going on, i doubt they get the numbers in on a sunday afternoon, monday/tuesday night etc, that they do when we are at home so its not worth their while.

I agree Sky have priced lots of pubs out of it... However I guess the flip side is that you defo loose punters on a Sunday afternoon, Mon eve. Lose lose for the small independent boozer.

 

[DTS]

I think my nan (MoDoDts) and my late grandad (DoDoDtS) had there wedding reception there and I have always loved a drink there as it feels like a working open air museum where I can step back in time and be a guest at my grand parents wedding.

 

[TrueBlue]

Liz who now runs the spread is a good girl that pub has improved so much of late :whistling:

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Liz who now runs the spread is a good girl that pub has improved so much of late :whistling:

When did that Gillingham geezer go?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

When did that Gillingham geezer go?

Dunno but he was a lazy,unfriendly so and so.Well rid.:thumbsup:

 

[TrueBlue]

Dunno but he was a lazy,unfriendly so and so.Well rid.:thumbsup:

Yeah he buggered off

 

[Benfleet A1]

The grunpy old git who used to have the Spread is a lad at work grandfather. Even he says he was a lazy swine who let his wife do it all while he sat on the end of the bar doing the crossword. Last year I believe there was a spat in the bar and she took a right hander which put her right off the pub game which is the main reason they left. I believe they have gone back to Kent but don't know whether they have another pub or not.

 

[TrueBlue]

The grunpy old git who used to have the Spread is a lad at work grandfather. Even he says he was a lazy swine who let his wife do it all while he sat on the end of the bar doing the crossword. Last year I believe there was a spat in the bar and she took a right hander which put her right off the pub game which is the main reason they left. I believe they have gone back to Kent but don't know whether they have another pub or not.

Yeah she took a slap bless her and so I hear he virtualy did **** all.

Pub is in much better hands!!!

When you next coming out for a session like old times Al?

 

[ldnfatso]

Cricko saw it being built! :cricko:

 

[Gremlin]

I agree Sky have priced lots of pubs out of it... However I guess the flip side is that you defo loose punters on a Sunday afternoon, Mon eve. Lose lose for the small independent boozer.

Not just Sunday and Monday but also before and after Saturday games (the televised 13.00 / 17.15 kick-offs) and midweek evenings too (Champions League, for example).

I find it hard to believe that the investment, if properly advertised, wouldn't pay off in the long run.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Not just Sunday and Monday but also before and after Saturday games (the televised 13.00 / 17.15 kick-offs) and midweek evenings too (Champions League, for example).

I find it hard to believe that the investment, if properly advertised, wouldn't pay off in the long run.

Can't they at least get the games transmitted from another source, like that Publican lady in Portsmouth. She won her case, so anyone can now do it at a small fraction of the cost of Sky.

 

[TrueBlue]

Went in there tonight and I must say I am very impressed!!! Place looks twice as big!!!