Blyth versus Cowpen

[Phodgetts]

Some other pub names I have come across are,

Boathouse, Golden Eagle (I remember that being built), Joe Cavner's, Taplow's Wine Bar, The Pullman.

Philip

[blythian]

The horse used to be the Labour Club, dunno when the name changed though.
 

[peeem]

blythian, I think it was in the eighties.

 Phodgetts,
Boathouse was the name given to the Pilot Cutter which was previously the Brewery Bar.
Golden Eagle is still there, a carbon copy I believe of the Phoenix at Tynemouth/North Shields which isn't.
Joe Cavners was the Croft.
Pullman is now Last Orders.

[c-side]

OK folks, it's time to drag yourselves out of the pubs and go back to Michael's original question because I learned something today at Woodhorn which might explain it.

A friend who was also researching discovered that they have a few copies of the old 'Blyth Scribe and Woodhut News' from 1898.  In it was a heated discussion on the proposed amalgamation.

It transpires that Cowpen was on the brink of bankruptcy - through it's own mismanagement according to Blyth folk.  The guys from Blyth were reluctant (to put it mildly) to join forces as they saw it as Blyth providing a financial rescue package for Cowpen at their ratepayers expense.

That's about all I managed to glean as it was closing time but it seems that Blyth had the upper hand financially and so, presumably, got to call the shots.

Christine

[emmadog]

Hi Christine just been reading your message.  What a great name for paper and a very interesting article.

Barbara

[c-side]

Surprisingly, if you google the newspaper's name there's a few articles on it.  One even has a photograph of the old wooden hut which forms part of the name!

Christine

[blythboy]

There is reference to the Coup stream/well. Coup is also an old word for a market or to sell.
Used to love the pubs in Blyth but they are uniformly depressing now. can anyone recommend a good one for my next visit?

Regards from cold but sunny Switzerland

Alan

[AlisdairGB]

I know that it's not exactly historic, but the South Beach should be added to the list. (Fulmar Drive, a typical estate pub but a welcome watering hole when the people on this estate want a drink without going to far.)

The South Beach Residents Association also have a welcoming bar/lounge.

[Rosecot]

I found this image on a northumberland.gov website archive (Ref NRO 01215/14) - it's labelled there as being c.1920 and appears to be the Star & Garter Hotel. Unless I'm mistaken, this building is now The Quay pub on Bridge Street (Blyth's No.1 Weekend Party Venue, apparently, according to its own website).

Now I thought (and there are plenty of pictures out there of old Blyth to back this up) that the Star & Garter Hotel was in Nortumberland Street, before it was renamed the Steamboat.

Anyone knaa what was renamed what, when?
Duncan.