I’ve noticed a growing trend over the last few years, particularly in village gastropubs, to paint pubs and restaurants in shades of grey. Recently I’ve even noticed houses being painted grey. My father tells me that when he was an agricultural rep in Yorkshire during the 1950s grey was a very common colour for farms. This state of affairs came to an end once the stocks of wartime surplus battleship grey came to an end, though some farmers still use it to this day.
I really should have taken more photos to illustrate the point, but my blogging, like the road to Hell, is paved with good intentions. Fortunately, as we were passing Nottingham’s newest pub this morning we noticed it was grey and Julia snatched a photo through the window.
The word “newest” in this context, means most recently renovated.
After being empty for 10 years the pub formerly known as The Peggers Inn narrowly escaped being known as Pubby McPubface, a trend in public votes that seems to be eternally amusing to some people. It is, as you can see, now known as The Fox and Grapes, the name with which it opened . This link shows some of the architectural detail, including the fox and some grapes.
It’s being run by Castle Rock Brewery, I thought I’d give it a mention as I quite like Harvest Pale and if they read this they may send me some. They probably won’t, but I just thought I’d have a go. Julia’s niece works there, so it won’t harm to help the company along.
That’s about it for the moment – grey, pub, Castle Rock Brewery. That just leaves the murder.
In 1963 the Pretty Windows murder made the national headlines. As you’ll have gathered if you looked at any of the links above, the pub was generally known as the Pretty Windows and the landlord was brutally stabbed in slightly mysterious circumstances. Why, for instance, was he wearing a suit to walk his dog that night?
The murder, despite the assistance of Scotland Yard, was never solved.
After the photo raid we went home – see here for the Magpies.
These links are a bit of a bother as they take me to posts that I have already read. Or they would if I clicked on them.
They are there for the newer readers, particularly if I’ve posted several times in a day. I would hate people to miss them. 🙂
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Grey was the predominate color of school buildings when I was young.
An interesting murder. I wonder if it will ever be solved. Is the brewery haunted?
Doesn’t seem to be any haunting. 🙂
I have noticed the preponderance of grey too. Here’s hoping you get a supply of Harvest Pale!
You never know…
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I was told many years ago, that after the murder at the Pretty Windows, the Murderer used to still drink in the pub. This was related to me by regular customers who claimed they knew the guilty party!
That’s one of the things about an unsolved murder – it’s not the same as not knowing who did it! Interesting to know about this as I didn’t arrive in Nottingham until the late 80s and knew nothing about it.
They are still there
They are like that – always hanging round.
Just a sec. Nipping back to the magpies
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Do let us know if anyone is murdered.
We have had a number of famous murders in Nottinghamshire, apart from the Pretty Windows murder.
John Knifton has covered a few of them.