A PARROT greeted punters as they arrived at one Hereford city pub in years gone by.

The Cotterell Arms of Cotterell Street served as a centre point of the Whitecross community for years, spending decades serving as a lively backstreet boozer with a popular darts team.

Many still remember when Gill and Noel Kirby took on the Cotterell Street pub in 1988.

The couple ran the Arms throughout the rest of the 20th and into the 21st, with Mr Kirby sadly dying in 2014, aged 59.

His wife continued at the pub for the next few months before it closed its doors forever on April 29, 2014, leaving it to be converted into three terrace houses.

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Members of We Grew Up in Hereford have been sharing their memories of the lost but not forgotten local boozer.

Glen O’Neil said:” Used to go in there in 2002 when I lived in Windsor Street.

“Great pub, best darts pub in Hereford.”

Kevin Fosbury said: “I used to go by there on my way to school at Lord Scudimore boys school.

“There always used to be a parrot In the window in a cage.

“Wonderful times and memories.”