1st pint, 1st local. - Page 17

cashman · 08-07-2010, 19:25

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Pubs/Clubs in Church, as of last weekend:

Greyhound - tyre repair shop
Con Club - motor spare parts shop
Commercial - derelict
Cross Guns - closed
Queens - Doctors surgery
Stag - closed
Wellington - Italian restaurant
Bridge - closed
Tanpits/Pioneer club - closed (sold for redevelopment?)
Tanpits (Plough) pub - boarded up
Oak Tree - Off License
Thorn - open.

A man could die of thirst in Church.

Defeatist, ya could have a pub crawl in the thorn from 1 room to the other.

Tealeaf · 08-07-2010, 19:27

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Originally Posted by cashman

Defeatist, ya could have a pub crawl in the thorn from 1 room to the other.

I did.

It would appear the Stag is only temporary closed, on the orders of the local Health & Safety officers. The place was not fitted with emergency lighting/emergency exit signs.

jaysay · 09-07-2010, 09:42

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Pubs/Clubs in Church, as of last weekend:

Greyhound - tyre repair shop
Con Club - motor spare parts shop
Commercial - derelict
Cross Guns - closed
Queens - Doctors surgery
Stag - closed
Wellington - Italian restaurant
Bridge - closed
Tanpits/Pioneer club - closed (sold for redevelopment?)
Tanpits (Plough) pub - boarded up
Oak Tree - Off License
Thorn - open.

A man could die of thirst in Church.

Ask nicely and we'll let you over the boarder for a pint in Ossy Tealeaf

gdm27 · 30-07-2010, 18:55

Was it the Lone Star or the Load Star near Ribchester. What a place for the talent back in the 70's. You had to know someone who had a car to get there!!! Met my 1st wife there and I still have nothing but good memories about the place!!!!

Tealeaf · 30-07-2010, 18:59

Anyway, the Stag was open again two weeks ago, thank god.

cashman · 30-07-2010, 19:08

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Was it the Lone Star or the Load Star near Ribchester. What a place for the talent back in the 70's. You had to know someone who had a car to get there!!! Met my 1st wife there and I still have nothing but good memories about the place!!!!

twas the load star, n ya didn't need to know someone who had a car, was no cctv in those days.

Taggy · 30-07-2010, 20:03

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Originally Posted by cashman

twas the load star, n ya didn't need to know someone who had a car, was no cctv in those days.

Yep Loadstar, Margo Grimshaws place some good gigs there in the past including Bob Geldof n Boomtown Rats..and the Sex Pistols!

Margo..not a woman to be messed with...once frogmarched me out, saying someone said i walloped one of her barstaff..luckily the barman spotted me and told Margo she was cobbin out the wrong fella!!

Best Regards - Taggy

jaysay · 31-07-2010, 09:49

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Originally Posted by cashman

twas the load star, n ya didn't need to know someone who had a car, was no cctv in those days.

And if a copper asked you to blow into a bag you told him to sod of as you'd just thrown it out the window

jaysay · 31-07-2010, 09:51

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Anyway, the Stag was open again two weeks ago, thank god.

So no doubt Tealeaf will be seen Stag-gering around Church when he's home

davidf · 21-08-2010, 14:05

Not first pint, but first pint of bitter. When I worked on the factory bottom, one lunchtime on a Saturday, when we were doing a bit of overtime, one of the tacklers from WF Chambers bought me my first pint of bitter in the Woodnook Inn? - at the corner of Marsden Street and Carter Street - which was a Thwaites pub if I remember rightly. I never really went back to drinking tea after that.

gdm27 · 21-08-2010, 14:10

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Originally Posted by davidf

Not first pint, but first pint of bitter. When I worked on the factory bottom, one lunchtime on a Saturday, when we were doing a bit of overtime, one of the tacklers from WF Chambers bought me my first pint of bitter in the Woodnook Inn? - at the corner of Marsden Street and Carter Street - which was a Thwaites pub if I remember rightly. I never really went back to drinking tea after that.

Bitter was the first pint that I had too, Commercial in Church, Christmas Eve 1968. What was the 1st pub drink that you had folks???

Taggy · 21-08-2010, 14:18

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Bitter was the first pint that I had too, Commercial in Church, Christmas Eve 1968. What was the 1st pub drink that you had folks???

Bitter was my first drink too, used to sup it all the time back then, until i woke up one morning with really bad gut pains...was advised by some olders drinkers to switch to mixed or mild, which i did, and was fine thereafter!

I tend to either drink lager these days, or the odd pint of real ale!...But sup more wine at home!

Best Regards - Taggy

jaysay · 21-08-2010, 14:19

Mine was a pint of mixed in the Foxhill in Blackpool, was only 15 at the time, but even then I was 6' 2" tall

jaysay · 21-08-2010, 14:21

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Bitter was the first pint that I had too, Commercial in Church, Christmas Eve 1968. What was the 1st pub drink that you had folks???

Think I could have been in attendance on that auspicious occasion G

Taggy · 21-08-2010, 14:21

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Mine was a pint of mixed in the Foxhill in Blackpool, was only 15 at the time, but even then I was 6' 2" tall

Once saw a Group called The Rockin Vicars playing there....i think they might even have been a resident band there...pretty good too!

Best Regards - Taggy