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75 Sea Road
Westgate on Sea
Above postcard, 1965. |
This is a hotel rather than a pub, but adding it to the site anyway.
Found as early as 1939, but as yet unknown to when it first opened.
John Drouot says the following:- The Ingleton was certainly there in the
1960s: my sister had a Saturday job there. The bar could be accessed by
going down Cedric Rd, the street on the left of the photograph. The hotel
was in Sea Rd, not Westgate Bay Avenue as you state on the web site. The
building is now (2018) a Free House called the "Swan."
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From an email received 15 May 2021.
I am one of 4 sisters. We
stayed every summer until the youngest was 7 – then my mother agreed
to get on a plane with us.
The Pilkington kids (glass family) also stayed with their nanny
in the summer. They sang ‘Dominica, ica ica’.
My father spent time in the bar. My oldest sister sat on the
grass above the beach with boys. I remember 1966 very well – the
teens on the grass yelling when England won the world cup. Lots of
noise from transistor radios (Trannies). I was on the beach below
with mother and young sisters.
Regards,
Chrissie Kimmons.
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From an email received 28 June 2021. This place brings back such
memories… I used to work there clearing tables, cleaning glasses and
stocking shelves back in the early 1970’s when I was 14, just before
immigrating to Australia.
The things I remember most about the place was Sunday lunch times
(back in the day when the pubs closed between lunch and dinner
times). At around midday a local fisherman would bring in his basket
of jellied eels, cockles and other seafood snacks he had caught in
the morning and sell them to hungry patrons. In the background there
would be an old couple that would play the piano in the front room
and sing (he played and she sang). I can almost still picture them
today.
When it was closing time, the doors would be locked and any of
the local regulars who were still there we allowed to stay and have
a drink with the old couple to finish off the day.
Clive Welti. |
LICENSEE LIST
ROWAM Mabel & SIMMONS Madeline 1939+
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