A reader contacted us this week to share her memories of The Phoenix pub in Gedling, after it was demolished to make way for new apartments.
Maxine Galinski, whose maiden name was Wigmore, got in touch with Gedling Eye after hearing about the flattening of the boozer on Shelford Road earlier this week.
The pub was her family home when it first opened back in the 1960s.
“The pub was our family home when the pub was first opened by Mum and Dad back in the 60s,” she told Gedling Eye.
“It was a happy and thriving community pub which holds for me and my brother Paul, and I’m sure many of the residents on the estate, many happy memories. We had a lot of good times here.
“It’s sad to see the demise of local pubs which were once the heartbeat of their communities.
“We will raise a glass to its passing and remember all the fundraising by all its customers, staff and mum and dad.”
Hockley Developments will now construct a three-storey apartment block on the site containing 26 self-contained flats now that the pub has been flattened.
The Phoenix pub last traded back in 2019 and there was briefly hope it could be reopened if new tenants were found, but owners the Ei Publican Partnership then announced last year that the pub was being put up for sale for potential development.
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My Uncle David Harrold lived in there lol x