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gdm27 19-09-2010 12:36
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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:confused:

cashman 19-09-2010 21:32
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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.:D was a Duke of wellington on abbey st.
yep sorry duke of welly!:p

5th Circle 30-09-2010 21:46
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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

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.:eek: 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.:eek: 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
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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
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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!!! :hidewall:

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!!! :hidewall:
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:D

Alan Varrechia 07-10-2010 22:13
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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 ( 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.:D:D:D

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.:D:D:D
Probably because you drank Boddies when you first started Alan:D

Alan Varrechia 08-10-2010 10:38
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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.:D:D:D:D

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


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