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The Grand Pavilion - or GP as we used to call it is now a leisure centre. The ground floor bar - The Dive which is the white building on the right also closed at the same time. It is also part of this complex. The Commercial has been extended but the bar remains as I used to know it. Remember Sid on the piano?. a nice local's pub. The Alma has been altered inside but the exterior seems the same. The Spread Eagle has recently been renovated, the bar hasn't changed much.The Butterfly has had the interior altered to make one big room. The Pier Hotel seems much the same except for the removal of the front door.The Alexandra is very busy with seasonal visitors. The old Co-op building on the corner of Pier Rd and Queen St is now a pub and nightclub. Remar's pub on the ground floor and Eldons nightclub upstairs. To the right of this building is the site of one of Withernsea's three cinemas - The Savoy. The white building is where the Trocadero used to be - a post pub hot orange. This is where I met my future wife. To the right is the site of Withernsea's other two cinemas - The Kinema and The Cosy, they are now The Victorian Tavern. The George and Dragon in Holmpton has been extended. The Plough at Hollym was not used much by RAF personnel because it lay just off the Patrington to Withernsea road. It now possesses an internet room, one of the computers probably has more memory than our entire radar station possessed. The White Horse at Ottringham - where the BBC radio station was situated, has been modernised, still nice.The Crown and Anchor at Kilnsea on the Spurn peninsular has a fabulous location. In front of the pub is the River Humber, you can see Grimsby docks on the far shore. This is a world heritage site, a stopping off point for migrating birds ( it is visited by twichers from all over the world ). Half a mile behind the pub is the north sea. The beach here is strewn with WW2 anti- aircraft gun implacements and pillboxes. These were of course originally built inland but the coastal erosion in this area is awsome. In less than a 100 years the Crown and Anchor pub could be underwater. Airmen heading south for a leave had to rely on the vagaries of the Humber Ferry to get them across the river Humber, if this was not running then Boothferry Swing Bridge was the quickest route south. The bridge is still there , also the adjacent pub - The FerryBoat. |
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