1st pint, 1st local.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

Well obviously n high I.Q. is required, to be accepted in that "Elite" band.

I'll let you pop down to Aldershot to tell um cashy

[Taggy]

Originally Posted by cashman

Well obviously n high I.Q. is required, to be accepted in that "Elite" band.

Yep...Idiot Quotient, in their case...but i aint telling them that!!


Best Regards - Taggy

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Taggy

I've had a beer or two in The Pegasus in Aldershot a few moons ago, which was the Paras favourite pub, they used to have their own version of Pub Games, sticking there heads on the pool table whilst someone smacked a cue ball against it as hard as they could, and stapling beer mats to their heads, were two of the gentler ones i can put on a family forum!! ....not for the fainthearted i'll tell ya!!

Best Regards - Taggy

Back in the Day (1983), the older Paras used to drink in the Pegasus, they were OK & never gave us any grief it was only the young "Meat Heads" who caused us a problem. Until we showed up with some Gurkha Transport Troops, we just sat back & watched the Cabaret

[Lance]

1st pint 1st local
Crown Inn outside Nori.
Eddie Paynter ex Lancashire batsman was landlord.
A beer with the lads , every Saturday morning.
I was an ancient starter 16.
1953

[Ken Moss]

Pint of Carling Black Label an the Hob Inn in Bamber Bridge. Roaring open fire, thatched roof, 350 years of history and a great landlord.

All that is now sadly ruined by a greedy brewery although thankfully I learned the value of real ale some two years later.

[gdm27]

Anybody remember the strange dart board they had in the TanPits Ossy and what was wrong with it ????

[cashman]

Originally Posted by gdm27

Anybody remember the strange dart board they had in the TanPits Ossy and what was wrong with it ????

Aunt of mine had Tanpits in early 60s, can't remember much about the dartboard even though i played occasionally on it, i blame pint crystals.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by gdm27

Anybody remember the strange dart board they had in the TanPits Ossy and what was wrong with it ????

Probably it was a Preston Board, with no trebles, never went in the Tanpits myself, but there were the odd Preston board knocking about, I also saw a plasticine board as well, you took the wire of and used a roller to flatten it and fill the dart marks in

[gdm27]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Probably it was a Preston Board, with no trebles, never went in the Tanpits myself, but there were the odd Preston board knocking about, I also saw a plasticine board as well, you took the wire of and used a roller to flatten it and fill the dart marks in

No that wasn't it. Played on a plasticine board as well. We used hedgehogs, lots of points!!

[gdm27]

Just been thinkin, what was strange about playing darts in the Tan Pits, would probably be closer!! Is the plase still there and when was it built???

[gdm27]

that should be place!!!!

[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Lance

1st pint 1st local
Crown Inn outside Nori.
Eddie Paynter ex Lancashire batsman was landlord.
A beer with the lads , every Saturday morning.
I was an ancient starter 16.
1953

He was also an England player - played against South Africa in 1939 I think it was. He gave me a bat autographed by the South Africans and the English team - it is now in South Africa - my brother appropriated it.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by gdm27

Just been thinkin, what was strange about playing darts in the Tan Pits, would probably be closer!! Is the plase still there and when was it built???

Still yon, but has been closed a good while, last landlord was a traveller i was told,

[Barrie Yates]

I remember the Tanpits in Church, but not the one in Oswaldtwistle. Can anyone tell me where it was please?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

I remember the Tanpits in Church, but not the one in Oswaldtwistle. Can anyone tell me where it was please?

Twas his geography that was wrong Barrie.