The College Arms, College Road, 1930s
c. 1930s · College Road
College Arms, Kingstanding, c. 1930s.
Voices of Kingstanding’s College Arms page gathers many memories of the pub, including the whippet track at the back. Dorothy Capewell recalled: “my dad always sent me with a bet wrapped around some money to be delivered to a man on the wall at the College Arms.” In the early 1930s the pub’s assembly room was also used for Mass by the new Christ the King parish.
About this place: The College Arms
Local memories
What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.
“I smiled when I read Dorothy’s comment about betting, I remember there being a track at the back of the College Arms where they raced whippets. The land was sold there are flats there now.”
“Oh my gosh! I used to love to watch those whippets racing-it seemed like number 6 always won :O)”
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