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Title: Noel Reilly Post by: ronnie21 on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 17:18:12 People with a longer memory will remember Noel Reilly, former landlord of the Beehive, who sadly died at the weekend aged 62. A well educated man, but an eccentric character, he held cultural evenings in a typical town boozer, even employing a russian philosopher!
Title: Re: Noel Reilly Post by: Don Rogers Shop on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 17:19:08 Shit i didnt know that. Sad news
Title: Re: Noel Reilly Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 17:24:13 People with a longer memory will remember Noel Reilly, former landlord of the Beehive, who sadly died at the weekend aged 62. A well educated man, but an eccentric character, he held cultural evenings in a typical town boozer, even employing a russian philosopher! Czech, Ronnie not Russian big difference....Reilly was a personal friend, spent a fine night on Friday reminiscing with a few old skool survivors of his regime...sad occasion, but still plenty of laughter. Title: Re: Noel Reilly Post by: leefer on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 17:26:20 Too young to die,was a real maverick,i went in there often...as a labourer i may add not a phiolosopher!
Title: Re: Noel Reilly Post by: Mexicano Rojo on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 20:06:47 really sad news, noel gave me first ever legal pint after i had been drinking there for a year already :)
always let me in on xmas day even though i was no longer a regular. he will be sadly missed. Title: Re: Noel Reilly Post by: Don Rogers Shop on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 20:12:00 Remember my family talking fondly of him
Title: Re: Noel Reilly Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 20:24:37 really sad news, noel gave me first ever legal pint after i had been drinking there for a year already :) always let me in on xmas day even though i was no longer a regular. he will be sadly missed. Reilly's Christmas Day meal was legendary....he would put it on for mainly regulars, who I suppose, didn't have direct family, or perhaps were stuck in Swindon, because of work etc, or even had relationships which had just gone tits up. Then of course there was the Christmas tree....a tradition which I still love. Title: Re: Noel Reilly Post by: michael on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 20:26:52 How recently was he landlord?
Title: Re: Noel Reilly Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 20:30:13 How recently was he landlord? Early 90's is when his tenancy officially ended, but he stayed in the pub for maybe a further year or more as a "consultant"....... |