The Silver Jubilee
I was up from Coventry visiting my Mum & Dad at kenton Bar on June 7th. Two Jubilee things struck me as odd- our rather insular estate (Cheviot View, also called the Leach Estate after the builder) had put out the flags, although on closer inspection, the banner appears to have twisted upside down.
Another change was that the Man on the Moon Pub in town had been renamed the Jubilee, which probably didn’t go down too well with the clientele who tended to be denim wearing heavies.
The Man on the Moon was renamed to that title in 1969 after the Apollo 11 Moon landing, originally being called the Man in the Moon.
I can remember visiting the Pub at some stage after April 1976, arriving just as large numbers of Geordie Scuffers were pouring out. I was witnessing the tail end of a raid (i was legally old enough by then, although I had been drinking in there for at least 18 months sporadically). and was bemused to find a mate of mine looking miserable at the Bar- he was eighteen the next month and had had his collar felt…
I used to booze with a guy from cov. he never mentioned the man on the moon pub,but he did witter on about a pub called the three tuns and a nightclub called park lane,man on the moon is a crap name for a pub it sounds like a wetherspoons house.
Comment by marty — August 23, 2008 @ 6:05 am
The Man on the Moon was in Newcastle, Kenton being a suburb of it on the way to the airport.
I remember the three Tuns, I don’t know which club Park Lane was, possibly renamed from Mr. George or the City Centre Club in my time.
Comment by Shades — August 23, 2008 @ 8:52 am