Home > Nottinghamshire > Nottingham > NG2 > Earl Manvers Earl Manvers

Picture source: Gary Evans

The Earl Manvers was situated at 68 Colwick Road, Sneinton. This pub was demolished in 2009.

I worked in this pub as a part time barman in the mid 1980s for £1.80 an hour. I t was a Shipstone's house and woe betide you if you didn't turn the sprinkler up full to give a creamy, swirly pint that kept it's head all down the glass. The front bar was hardly used which was a shame as it was a rather grand Victorian pub decorated in purple and blues I think. The public bar was everybody drank which was a basic room. Fluorescent lighting, wooden benches and stools and those round cast iron tables. A typical Shipstone's pub. The beer was kept well and it was a popular drinking place. One Saturday lunchtime 2 women were in the bar and they started fighting over an alleged incident where one of them had slept with the other's husband. At first it was just them two rolling around on the floor, pulling hair, slapping each other but it soon esculated into a full on bar fight with stools going through the optics. The landlady told me to stop them. Not on £1.80 I wasn't and promptly joined all the staff in the spirit cupboard only to come out when it stopped and to clean up. We didn't even shut. The customers soon went back to their drinking. Sunday lunchtime was a busy session in those days.

Craig Scothern (February 2014)

Do you have any anecdotes, historical information, updates or photos of this pub? Become a contributor by submitting them here. Like this site? Follow us on Make email contact with other ex-customers and landlords of this pub by adding your details to this page.