1st pint, 1st local. - Page 21

jaysay · 12-09-2010, 17:39

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Back to Pubs! What was the worst thing that happened to pubs, yours or all pubs! My 2 points being, knocking all the rooms into one big area, couldn't find a quiet room anymore. Kids of any age being allowed!!!! I blame the drunken mobs you see around towns now on this! watched drunks in pubs behaving stupid and nothing being done and thinking this is the way to behave!!! What ever happened to sitting outside with crisps and pop????

I've never subscribed to kids in pubs myself, okay for a meal, but after that no. Pubs are for adults, there's plenty of time for young people to enter licensed premises when they of the right age

Benipete · 12-09-2010, 18:33

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Back to Pubs! What was the worst thing that happened to pubs, yours or all pubs! My 2 points being, knocking all the rooms into one big area, couldn't find a quiet room anymore. Kids of any age being allowed!!!! I blame the drunken mobs you see around towns now on this! watched drunks in pubs behaving stupid and nothing being done and thinking this is the way to behave!!! What ever happened to sitting outside with crisps and pop????

People marking the dart board that couldn't count.

gdm27 · 12-09-2010, 19:22

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Originally Posted by Benipete

People marking the dart board that couldn't count.

These are the same people that keep the bank in Monopoly!!

jaysay · 13-09-2010, 08:53

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Originally Posted by gdm27

These are the same people that keep the bank in Monopoly!!

And cheat at Scrabble

gdm27 · 18-09-2010, 13:05

Is there still a pub up the hill close to Pendle Hill, the one that keeps opening and closing, the pub, not the hill! The one with a ski slope next to it!!

jaysay · 18-09-2010, 13:50

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Is there still a pub up the hill close to Pendle Hill, the one that keeps opening and closing,

Ya opens at opening time, closes at closing time

Bernard Dawson · 18-09-2010, 14:37

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Is there still a pub up the hill close to Pendle Hill, the one that keeps opening and closing, the pub, not the hill! The one with a ski slope next to it!!

Well Springs,I think you mean. It was the last time I was up that way. Which is not too long ago.

cashman · 18-09-2010, 14:47

that will never close, too many witches in Sabden, always partial to a brew.

Taggy · 18-09-2010, 15:27

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Originally Posted by gdm27

Is there still a pub up the hill close to Pendle Hill, the one that keeps opening and closing, the pub, not the hill! The one with a ski slope next to it!!

I think its been a Mexican/Spanish, Bar/Restaurant for quite some time now!

Best Regards - Taggy

joaner3 · 18-09-2010, 16:45

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Cattle Market and Australian, down the ginnel from Joe Mort's, '54/'55 - definitely "Rites of Passage"

Where was the "Australian"?

Benipete · 18-09-2010, 18:05

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Originally Posted by joaner3

Where was the "Australian"?

Just off Whalley Rd I think -Bradleys drivers used it quite a lot.

Gremlin · 18-09-2010, 19:27

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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Going downstairs into a pub called the "Globetrotter" in Aldershot, it's were all the crow Para's used to go, me & mate RCT "leg troops". Talk about into the Valley of Death. My, how we could run in those days of youth

valleyofdeath.jpg

You kind of get the idea !!!

I went in the Mermaid in Pompey when I was stationed there and that was a dangerous place to go.
Different reason though Dave. I never bent down for fear of the inevitable accidental touch on my rear end from the local pervs.
More than once I saw a "shirt lifter" climbing out the water for getting too near an old salt.

jaysay · 19-09-2010, 09:13

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Originally Posted by Gremlin

I went in the Mermaid in Pompey when I was stationed there and that was a dangerous place to go.
Different reason though Dave. I never bent down for fear of the inevitable accidental touch on my rear end from the local pervs.
More than once I saw a "shirt lifter" climbing out the water for getting too near an old salt.

I went in a pub in Pompey called the Mermaid in the early 70s don't know if it was the same one as yours Gremlin, but was near the docks, I used to stay in the Trafalgar Arms on Fratton Road quite near the football ground

Gremlin · 19-09-2010, 11:12

It was around 1959/60 when I used the Mermaid jaysay, it was near the docks and full of pervs looking for young conscripts doing their training. Needless to say I didn't take their shilling.
I stayed in digs provided by Betty Windsor of Buck House fame, I think it was called Derby Barracks. I then went to HMS Ganges which was a shore based training ship near Ipswich before joining the army at Deepcut. I didn't like climbing the mast and rigging at Ganges so I was transferred to the army.
You see the lads on TV now at the shows uptop the rigging and masts all lined up along the spars and I cringe.

cashman · 19-09-2010, 11:50

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Originally Posted by joaner3

Where was the "Australian"?

ya went down castle st to bottom left hand corner was the gable end of that little Thwaites house, was actually on what was locally called the "Pleck" which ran from there back to Whalley Rd, past the Whalley Rd Methodist Church, hope that helps joaner.