The Fox And Goose Public House
Hello from Australia. I was hoping that someone looking through these "memories" might remember The Fox and Goose Public House on Penn Road. I think that this is the picture of it. My mom was the cleaner there for a few years when my sisters and I were young and I can remember sitting on the steps outside the pub collecting car numbers in an old exercise book and drinking a bottle of Vimto and eating Smiths crisps while I waited for mom to finish cleaning, and then we'd walk all the way back home to Warstones estate where we lived, it was such a long way but we never minded then as we didn't have a car and money was very tight so we couldn't catch the bus. Sometimes mom would stop on the way and if it was near lunchtime she would buy sixpence-worth of batter bits from the fish and chip shop that we passed on the way home and we'd think it was such a treat if a little bit of fish had somehow made its way in to the batter bits. Now I have grown up "children" of my own and often tell them stories of when I was growing up. I think they find it difficult to imagine that a bottle of soft drink and packet of crisps plus the fact that we had "bits of batter" for lunch was such a treat.
I would love to hear from anyone that might remember the Fox and Goose public house or the Springhill Public House in Penn as my mom was also a cleaner there for many years and the licencee's name was Val Brookes.
Thanks for reading this, my name is Kathleen Adams (nee Cook) and I lived in Enville Road Penn.
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RE: RE: The Fox And Goose Public House
Your memories are accurate. I too live in Australia and have not been to the Fox for about 6 years, after visiting on a trip home it was certainly not the Fox of the late 1970s when we were regulars. Perhaps a few names may jog memories, Pat Barry who assisted Mrs K for many years, Pete and Tim Whitehouse, my brother Kev Cutler, Roy Davenport and Wolves players Martin Patching and Peter Daniels. They were the days when you could have a great laugh with mates with no danger of any trouble. I too wonder what my kids would say about sitting on the steps while I had a beer, then walking the two miles home...some chance. But life moves on and the move to Australia has been the best ever, although I would love to have once in a while one of the old nights at the Fox followed by fish and chips from Shands opposite. Gary Cutler
Comment from Gary Cutler on Sunday, 29th November 2009.
RE: RE: The Fox And Goose Public House
October 2010 Fox and Goose sadly now closed, and boarded up. Roebuck still open as is the Rose and Crown. We now have a Tesco convenience store next to Fox and, some locals feel that the opening of this was the death knell of the Fox as the car park was shared and generally it was a bit odd. Otherwise Penn remains the same, St Bart's Church dominates the skyline from a number of directions and is one of the very few churches to be growing. St Bart's School is full to capacity, Highfields is being rebuilt, Springdale and Warstones schools are still open and florishing. Barbara Edwards, lived in Penn since 1968.
Comment from BARBARA EDWARDS on Wednesday, 27th October 2010.