1st pint, 1st local. - Page 22

gdm27 · 19-09-2010, 12:36

What's the oldest pub still open in Accy?

jaysay · 19-09-2010, 17:53

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What's the oldest pub still open in Accy?

Well I think Retlaw will have a good idea, would think the Black Abbey must be in with a shout, the Hargreaves too, but who knows

cashman · 19-09-2010, 21:32

Reckon the "Stag" is in wi a shout if ya include church?

walkinman221 · 25-09-2010, 20:02

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ya musta been drunk? never known a pub of that name in accy.

was a Duke of wellington on abbey st.

yep sorry duke of welly!

5th Circle · 30-09-2010, 21:46

There was a pub on the Right going down Union Rd just past Howarth St, used to go in with Dave Dixon, think his parents ran the place we used to sneak 1/2 at lunchtime then back to Rhyddings

jaysay · 01-10-2010, 09:28

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There was a pub on the Right going down Union Rd just past Howarth St, used to go in with Dave Dixon, think his parents ran the place we used to sneak 1/2 at lunchtime then back to Rhyddings

Horse Shoe, Prince of Wales, on the left of Union Road opposite Haworth Street was the Foxhill, and in fact is still open today

cashman · 01-10-2010, 22:19

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There was a pub on the Right going down Union Rd just past Howarth St, used to go in with Dave Dixon, think his parents ran the place we used to sneak 1/2 at lunchtime then back to Rhyddings

was 2 near together on right going down past haworth st, first was a lion house the "Horseshoe" a guy called Oswaldeston had it late 60s, chased me down union rd wi a bayonet.

the one lower was "Prince of wales" a Thwaites house, a scottish guy called Mcnair had that early 60s, his son stuart was in my class at the tech, he was n ok guy, when are ya talking you used to pop in?

jaysay · 02-10-2010, 09:01

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was 2 near together on right going down past haworth st, first was a lion house the "Horseshoe" a guy called Oswaldeston had it late 60s, chased me down union rd wi a bayonet.

the one lower was "Prince of wales" a Thwaites house, a scottish guy called Mcnair had that early 60s, his son stuart was in my class at the tech, he was n ok guy, when are ya talking you used to pop in?

Just trying to remember cashy when they actually knocked them down, must have been the late sixties, early seventies

5th Circle · 06-10-2010, 03:17

Just about the right time, started work in 1970, so would be the year before, after the morning session at the Annex opposite the Palladium

gdm27 · 06-10-2010, 22:23

What about best back room??? My 1st local pub was the Broadway and the back room there had the football table in it. There most of the night, me in goal and my mate Mick Rotherham up front!!!

jaysay · 07-10-2010, 09:11

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What about best back room??? My 1st local pub was the Broadway and the back room there had the football table in it. There most of the night, me in goal and my mate Mick Rotherham up front!!!

The Heys in Stonebridge Lane had a great Back Room Tape Room, little Harry waiting on, Sunday Draw, Dart Board, Four Do's Tables going, Half a dollar a corner, smoke filled, the good old days

Alan Varrechia · 07-10-2010, 22:13

Not exactly Accy, but my first pint was in a pub called the Queens in cheetham hill not far from Strangeways ( soryy i mean hmp m/c now), 40 years ago and i can remember it like it was yesterday. Can't remember naff all about yesterday mind.

jaysay · 08-10-2010, 09:12

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Not exactly Accy, but my first pint was in a pub called the Queens in cheetham hill not far from Strangeways ( sorry i mean hmp m/c now), 40 years ago and i can remember it like it was yesterday. Can't remember naff all about yesterday mind.

Probably because you drank Boddies when you first started Alan

Alan Varrechia · 08-10-2010, 10:38

It was worse than that Jay, It was Holts' and my second venture into drinking was at a Robinsons pub. It's a wonder i'm not teetotal after a start like that.

jaysay · 08-10-2010, 17:44

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It was worse than that Jay, It was Holts' and my second venture into drinking was at a Robinsons pub. It's a wonder i'm not teetotal after a start like that.

Ya poor sod, think I'd have been TT if I'd have had to drink them, especially Robinsons