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Old 08-06-2010, 09:24   #166
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There were some pubs in Ossy that were notably lax on under-age drinking. We used to frequent the New Inn (landlord Ged), the Bay Horse on Tinker Brow where you could run upstairs if the police came in & one down near St. Paul's school that I've forgotten the name of. To play snooker it was the Straits club in the week or Accy Con on a Saturday.

Favourite tipple - pint of mixed one & sevenpence halfpenny - 1962.
The Bay Horse was my watering hole in the early sixties, Bill was the landlord think is wife was called Edith, The Surf United football team were based there too, had some great times back then
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Old 08-06-2010, 19:25   #167
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Across from the Bay Horse was Annie's pie shop (later with husband? Jim). We used to go there for dinners (lunches!) in the school holidays. Plate meat pie was the best if there was any left - otherwise I would opt for meat & potato. Annie was like a 2nd mum.
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Old 09-06-2010, 09:52   #168
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Across from the Bay Horse was Annie's pie shop (later with husband? Jim). We used to go there for dinners (lunches!) in the school holidays. Plate meat pie was the best if there was any left - otherwise I would opt for meat & potato. Annie was like a 2nd mum.
Jim was a good friend of mine, was a regular in the Stop and Rest on a Friday night in the 60s and 70s and always brought the bakers basket full of pies, I always had a cheese and onion, in later life he lived with his sister Margaret and husband Joe on Rhyddings street, sadly Jim died about 15 years ago, his sister Margaret, only died about 3 weeks ago
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Old 09-06-2010, 13:30   #169
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my first pint was at the tinker,i for the land lady i think she was called jessy i was going in with my brother.
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my first pint was at the tinker,i for the land lady i think she was called jessy i was going in with my brother.
would that be the big lass wi the long red hair?
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would that be the big lass wi the long red hair?
Ya know um all cashy
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My first drink was with me dad Ben in the Bay Horse then on to the Tinker. Dad used to say that if you started at the top of Ossy and had half in every pub down to Church you would be staggering on the way back. Was the beer weaker or are we just getting better at it? If I knew how to start a thread would ask how many pubs were there in the 60's. Perhaps someone can help?
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Across from the Bay Horse was Annie's pie shop (later with husband? Jim). We used to go there for dinners (lunches!) in the school holidays. Plate meat pie was the best if there was any left - otherwise I would opt for meat & potato. Annie was like a 2nd mum.
Loose meat and potato pie was the best. Jimmy Stevies we used to call it. He had a big pot of it stewing on a Saturday morning. Plastic table cloths and the place smelt of real coooking. My mouth is watering as I think.
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My first drink was with me dad Ben in the Bay Horse then on to the Tinker. Dad used to say that if you started at the top of Ossy and had half in every pub down to Church you would be staggering on the way back. Was the beer weaker or are we just getting better at it? If I knew how to start a thread would ask how many pubs were there in the 60's. Perhaps someone can help?
do a search, thread on all pubs on union rd somewhere, was at least double the pubs there is now, the beer sure was no weaker, ya couldn't do a half in em all both ways no chance. i tried one way wi pints in mid 60s, n was rat arsed before the irish league.
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do a search, thread on all pubs on union rd somewhere, was at least double the pubs there is now, the beer sure was no weaker, ya couldn't do a half in em all both ways no chance. i tried one way wi pints in mid 60s, n was rat arsed before the irish league.
I think the beer is stronger. Both Thwaites & Lion's bitters were around the 3.6 ABV mark....look at todays bitters..you rarely see Thwaites ordinary, now and as for Lions...R.I.P. You do, however see quite a bit of Bomber and that comes in at 4.4%.

I don't think many people men lager supped lager back in the '60s - it was, and still is a woman's drink - but nevertheless it does average out stronger than bitter. That probably explains why there is such alcohol related violence today - the young lads who sup lager probably get a hormone inbalance resulting in a confused gender crisis causing them to start fights in order to prove their masculinity.
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do a search, thread on all pubs on union rd somewhere, was at least double the pubs there is now, the beer sure was no weaker, ya couldn't do a half in em all both ways no chance. i tried one way wi pints in mid 60s, n was rat arsed before the irish league.
Dad was right then, as usual! will look for the thread
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I think the beer is stronger. Both Thwaites & Lion's bitters were around the 3.6 ABV mark....look at todays bitters..you rarely see Thwaites ordinary, now and as for Lions...R.I.P. You do, however see quite a bit of Bomber and that comes in at 4.4%.

I don't think many people men lager supped lager back in the '60s - it was, and still is a woman's drink - but nevertheless it does average out stronger than bitter. That probably explains why there is such alcohol related violence today - the young lads who sup lager probably get a hormone inbalance resulting in a confused gender crisis causing them to start fights in order to prove their masculinity.
sorry T, wasn't counting lager as beer.
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I think the beer is stronger. Both Thwaites & Lion's bitters were around the 3.6 ABV mark....look at todays bitters..you rarely see Thwaites ordinary, now and as for Lions...R.I.P. You do, however see quite a bit of Bomber and that comes in at 4.4%.

I don't think many people men lager supped lager back in the '60s - it was, and still is a woman's drink - but nevertheless it does average out stronger than bitter. That probably explains why there is such alcohol related violence today - the young lads who sup lager probably get a hormone inbalance resulting in a confused gender crisis causing them to start fights in order to prove their masculinity.
So where do you put the hormone imbalance of female related alcohol violence because they drink bitter?
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So where do you put the hormone imbalance of female related alcohol violence because they drink bitter?
If they're out with me they get half a mild and a bag of cheese and onion with instructions to sit in the corner and keep quiet while I finish my game of darts with t'lads.
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If they're out with me they get half a mild and a bag of cheese and onion with instructions to sit in the corner and keep quiet while I finish my game of darts with t'lads.
Generous to a fault eh
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