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A lot of Stourbridge people on here, nice to see.
The Crispin has already been shown as has The Rock Station (I walk past that pretty much every day, it's now a takeaway), I spent far too much of my late teens in those places.
I also spent a lot of time in Halesowen, The Edward was a favourite as the beer was cheap and the ID checking was lax.
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The Rose and Crown in Hasbury also was a popular haunt, it went though a number of incarnations, music pub, really rough pub, football pub, a brief attempt at being a foodie pub, no idea what it is now.
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And finally, the legendary Waggon and Horses. 20+ guest ales every night, smelt of stale beer and fags, toilets outside, a prper dive of a place. But the beer was good and the pickled eggs were cheap.
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A lot of Stourbridge people on here, nice to see.
Can I just add to the list.
Jesters in the high street. Got turned into a shoe shop.
The Turf in the highstreet. Been told that's still a pub.
The Exchange in the high street, though I maybe spent more time out the back building five sheet constructions. 😉
The Bowling Green, Grafton Street, Manc.
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The Vaynol, Nant Peris
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And of course, the ODG
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No pub. Brother and I used to distil our own "whisky" in the garden shed. (Family tradition, gg/father briefly jailed for it by evil British govt suppressing local native culture and traditions).
Our parties were legendary apparently. I don't remember. 🙂
The Exchange in the high street, though I maybe spent more time out the back building five sheet constructions.
I think that was par for the course there actually.
The Mitre seems to have taken that mantel of late, I was in there a couple of weeks ago, live music, a bit rough, some real "characters" and a lot of weed in the beer garden. It took me back a bit!
The Mitre seems to have taken that mantel of late
I remember getting my picture taken by some plain clothed officers hiding in the building that overlooked the carpark of the Mitre a few times so we stopped going there. So nothing new there.
Golden Lion in Romford
Was a nice pub. I started off at a very tender age at The Bitter End opposite, then if you could blag it upstairs to Ben's Discotheque! So wish I'd took photos of it all.
There used to be a pub in the west end of Ashton-Under-Lyne, getting towards Guide Bridge, that had an indie night at weekends, around the Birch street area. Can't for the life of me remember the name of it or even exactly where it was, but spent many a happy drunken night there at the end of the 80's.
Looking on google maps I think it might have been knocked down when the motorway went through the area, which shows how long ago it is since I have been back home.
Ah, the Vaynol. The end of epic climbing days. The beginning obviously starts in Petes Eats.
The Raven in Wigan was where is all started.
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I then graduated on to The John Bull where I was resident for many years.
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Finally had my first date with my future wife in Raffles. Unfortunately it was bulldozed to make way for a new shopping centre and I can't find any mention of it on the web!
If someone wants to do some screengrabs from Streetview, feel free, but:
1) The Vernon Arms, Poynton - venue for my first ever pint bought from pub, with MartynS of this parish. 1991 (maybe 1990), Boddingtons it was, £1.12. Then scene of general sixth form pub shenanigans
2) The Kingfisher, Poynton - general late teens early twenties pub shenanigans
3) The Farmers Arms, Poynton - as above. Plus The Smokiest Pub In The World Ever
4) The Jolly Sailor, Woodsmoor - General sixth form pub shenanigans, plus gave the opportunity to ogle at the fit posh girls from Hulme Hall and Cheadle Hulme School, plus from Bramhall generally.
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The 'Bird', now shut, which is an improvement
The Deal Hoy, tiny little place and served me cider when I was about 14, I looked like I was 5. Had bar billiards, which took up half the space in the room.
Allthepies, yes but it was Yoemans Bridge when I started, changed halfway through my time there.
Control67, was working there mostly in the 90's, not sure I'm allowed back
All of my dinner money went in here
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All of my grant in here
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All of my wages in here
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Golden Lion in RomfordWas a nice pub. I started off at a very tender age at The Bitter End opposite, then if you could blag it upstairs to Ben's Discotheque! So wish I'd took photos of it all.
I also went in the Bitter End when it was the Ford and Firkin, after a few in there it was then of to either RM1 or Secrets.
Ironbridge has many pubs, not all of them equal.
This was my local.
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The Hatchet Inn, Central Bristol. An old mate used to DJ metal there all night.
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All gone, although the burnt out shell of what was the Barley Mow is still there.
The Cock & Magpies on the Hagley Road near Bearwood.
Now a Steakhouse or something.
Just mentioned how I couldn't remember our parties to my wife.
She reminded me that's where we met... oops!
In no particular order up to about the age of 20:
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Where I learned the bar tending trade and where I met my wife...
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And where the hold an annual tug o' war over the river every Boxing Day
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I practically lived in this pub when I was a youth - the best rock and metal 'get completely pissed, get barred, go back in tomorrow' pub in Bury.
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went in again a few weeks back for the first time in 20 years and bumped into 4 or 5 lads that were always in there when I was a regular.
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Living in a student bedsit upstairs helped 🙂
Welcome to The Griffin, Selby (Warning: this photo runs the risk of making it look welcoming!)...
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The Snake catcher.
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The woodpecker
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The Centurion
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The Rising Sun
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The Chequers in Stourbridge was our go to pub with the delightful Babs behind the bar
The pub I went to most weekends in the 70's when I was under 10 years old, my grandparents local in North Kensington, The Bridport Arms now housing.
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The White Horse Sheperds Bush, Been in there occasionally since my youthful days, the decor hasn't changed. Expected Regan and Carter to be in there propping up the bar.
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Royal Oak New Malden, Meh.
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The Mill Kingston Upon Thames, used to be a real alternatives pub in the days before kingston became gentrified.
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The Chequers in Stourbridge was our go to pub with the delightful Babs behind the bar
I once delivered some hire equipment to the Chequers at 8.30 on a saturday morning and the pub was rammed. 😯 😀
This was in the days of shorter licencing hours too.
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This was the next'house' down our road, less that two minutes door to door. Some of the happiest memory's of my formative years were made in there 🙂 unfortunately it was turned into a gastro pub, it never recovered 🙁 now an on off cannabis farm (not even joking! ).
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Just for balance, we used to walk up the hill to here as well 🙂 about five mins though, so not the preferred option if you had a thirst to quench.
The Prince Albert in wallheath, the park tavern in k,ford,Christophers American and dwarf throwing on ott nights at the kingfisher which burnt down a couple of weeks ago.
suburbanreuben - I used to frequent the Hautboy as well, somewhat random opening hours at times. Went down the 'Mucky Duck' when the Hautboy decided not to open.
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The Harrow, Shepperton, my girlfriend of the time lived down the road opposite,
I remember the night our eldest mate turned 18, we walked in, Babs spots his 18th birthday badge he had on ..... "You're 18?! But you've been coming in here the last 2 years!"
Sheffield. Lived equidistant between
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Both of which appear still to be open, but quite why they'e painted the wheatsheaf that colour, there can be no rationale explanation!
Although my earliest drinking was here. Except when the snooker was on if you could peer over the bar, you'd get served. It therefore was known as the 'dwarf bar'
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Although it didn't look like that when I was drinking there. Basically it was all brown with flecked ash!
All of them full of characters; the dodgy spots were usually the best.
Don't drink in any of them anymore; one of them has since closed down. Used to love going to the pub!
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I glanced at the thread title and read it as pubes 😆
The Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brisbane - the Brekky. Looks like they might have refurbed it since I was last there, but it it was a proper working man's boozer back in the 1970s when I used to sell the afternoon paper in there and occasional accept [url= https://www.breakfastcreekhotel.com/beeroffthewood ]a midi off the wood [/url]from a regular. My mum was a barmaid there for years till she met my step-dad in there. It's still got the old Spanish Garden restaurant where you can bbq your own steaks - that will never change. Brilliant place.
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A lot of posh looking pubs! My underage drinking days were in the mill chimney blackened back streets of Bradford in the 60s. Mostly rough edge but at least the landlords turned a blind eye & a pint was 1s 7d. Local bobbies often walked in but if things were quiet they didn't bother hanging about.
Robert Peel, Yates, Unicorn, Crown, Great Northern. Plus many others we wouldn't dare enter!!
The Chequers in Stourbridge was our go to pub with the delightful Babs behind the barI once delivered some hire equipment to the Chequers at 8.30 on a saturday morning and the pub was rammed.
This was in the days of shorter licencing hours too.
Couple of lads I know are Villa fans, i think a ruck of them used to meet there that time Saturday mornings before heading up Villa Park. Early 90s to mid 90s probably.
Wow.
Really wasn't sure what I was expecting to see from this thread when, in a slightly inebriated state, I started it last night, but wow.
Great to see so many memories, and such a glorious variety of boozer. Both in terms of architecture and the sort of pub it is.
Keep 'em coming!
Couple of lads I know are Villa fans, i think a ruck of them used to meet there that time Saturday mornings before heading up Villa Park. Early 90s to mid 90s probably.
I'd say the youngest one in there was 65. 😯
Maybe not your mates and more the late 80's.
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The Black Bull High St, Glasgow. Pint of Heavy at 16yo. Then every Saturday morning before heading to Parkhead.
more here
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A regular Saturday night meeting place before heading into town, the last time I went was a week after my 18th when I was refused a drink because I didn't have any ID.