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Old 13-08-2009, 18:53   #46
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same pub same year cashy, then from there to the junction another little lads pub.happy days.
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Old 13-08-2009, 19:30   #47
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same pub same year cashy, then from there to the junction another little lads pub.happy days.
oh i moved to the Horseshoe before Junction they used to call that "Learners Arms"
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Old 14-08-2009, 19:29   #48
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First pint in a pokey little hole on Ledger st, can't remember what it was called ...Ledger Arms maybe ? First local The Swan
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Old 14-08-2009, 20:46   #49
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Used to go in there every lunch time when I was at college many moons ago, if I remember it was magnet ales Sam Smiths I think
I may be wrong Jaysay but wasn't the Johns pub a Thwaites House and the New Brewery round the corner Sam Smiths? There was also the Royal round the corner from the New Brewery too but i cant quite recall what that was...could have been Matthew Brown but not at all sure! They were all pubs i used to go in years ago along wi Boars Head, but the memory's not as good as it was!


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Old 14-08-2009, 20:54   #50
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My first was the Park Inn on Manchester Road aged 15...after 3 pints of bitter I was staggering around suppin any drink left unattended...luckily I escaped a thumping but Dennis the Landlord had enough and got his wife Doreen to chuck me out
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I may be wrong Jaysay but wasn't the Johns pub a Thwaites House and the New Brewery round the corner Sam Smiths? There was also the Royal round the corner from the New Brewery too but i cant quite recall what that was...could have been Matthew Brown but not at all sure! They were all pubs i used to go in years ago along wi Boars Head, but the memory's not as good as it was!


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St Johns was Thwaites Taggy, New Brewery John Smiths, Royal Oak - Thwaites, n Reamer think ya probably mean the ST.Ledger which was on Plantation St, n old haunt of "Tommy 2 Guns" in early mid 60s many probably don't know of him,but Bob Dobson certainly does.that was also a Thwaites pub, just around corner on Elephant St was the Welcome Inn, n top left the Colliers both Mathew Brown/Lions houses, was a top little circuit once of a day.
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Old 14-08-2009, 21:47   #52
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Trust you to turn up trumps Cashy!! I was pretty sure that St Johns was Thwaites, and that New Brewery was one of the Smiths!! (Sam or John) Couldnt for life of me recall what the Royal was...and ive had a few in there over time...mind you it did shut some time back now! Yes i know its an lame excuse but its all i can come up wi!!!

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Trust you to turn up trumps Cashy!! I was pretty sure that St Johns was Thwaites, and that New Brewery was one of the Smiths!! (Sam or John) Couldnt for life of me recall what the Royal was...and ive had a few in there over time...mind you it did shut some time back now! Yes i know its an lame excuse but its all i can come up wi!!!

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was quite n authority on pubs n ale back in the day Taggy, am now paying the price fer the sins of youth.was in the Royal Oak one dinner time wi George Best Taggy, but thats another story.
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was quite n authority on pubs n ale back in the day Taggy, am now paying the price fer the sins of youth.
Yeh but dont knock it Cashy, all that experience is now being used for our benefit!!! We do appreciate what you went through to aquire this knowledge!!

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Old 15-08-2009, 09:13   #55
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You're right, Cashy, it was the St Ledger and I remember the Colliers too, another pokey little place. Now I think about it, the flats that replaced them still retain the name - St Ledger Court
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I may be wrong Jaysay but wasn't the Johns pub a Thwaites House and the New Brewery round the corner Sam Smiths? There was also the Royal round the corner from the New Brewery too but i cant quite recall what that was...could have been Matthew Brown but not at all sure! They were all pubs i used to go in years ago along wi Boars Head, but the memory's not as good as it was!


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Spot on Taggy, twas the New Brewery, it appears the little grey cells are disappearing faster than I thought
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Old 15-08-2009, 09:21   #57
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My first was the Park Inn on Manchester Road aged 15...after 3 pints of bitter I was staggering around suppin any drink left unattended...luckily I escaped a thumping but Dennis the Landlord had enough and got his wife Doreen to chuck me out
What year was that Mancie, I used the Park in the late seventies about 77/78, Denbo took over at Ossy con after leaving there, left there in about 1998, he died about 3 or 4 years ago
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You're right, Cashy, it was the St Ledger and I remember the Colliers too, another pokey little place. Now I think about it, the flats that replaced them still retain the name - St Ledger Court
pokey yes but top boozers wi loads of characters,in their day, could tell ya some tales about that little circuit.
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Old 16-08-2009, 18:58   #59
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Have all those pubs closed now? The ones like Great Eastern, St Johns, New Brewery, Royal Oak, etc? I know the Boar's Head is still open, even though I haven't been in there for donkey's years.
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Have all those pubs closed now? The ones like Great Eastern, St Johns, New Brewery, Royal Oak, etc? I know the Boar's Head is still open, even though I haven't been in there for donkey's years.
Yep, all those 4 have gone now i'm afraid. Great Eastern was the last of them to close! Had some really good times in them over the years!

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