Recent calls for the derelict Station Hotel in Meir to be demolished, set me thinking about some of the pubs that this town has lost over the years. I helped to compile an application for listing the iconic King’s Arms, that sadly went ignored by English Heritage – and I have personal connections with another pub that was bulldozed in 2009. This was the Thorley, which was nobody’s darling at the time of its demise. Back then, local residents told The Sentinel of its reputation for drug dealing and unsavoury behaviour. The poor old pub was variously lambasted as “never a family pub” and – inevitably – an “eyesore.” Don Roberts, who ran the Thorley between October 1993 and October 2006, countered at the time: “It was a rough and ready estate pub, but I brought my children up in there. “If I knew about people using, selling or dealing drugs, I wouldn’t have my children around. I had a great time there.” It wasn’t meant to be this way. Back in 1960, the Thorley opened as Ind Coope’s new house, standing on the corner of Brookwood Drive and Stansmore Road. The brewery envisaged Continental-style drinking, with patrons taking their… Read full this story
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