Busiest pubs back in the 70's on a Friday and Saturday night!

[gdm27]

If you had to go out one door and in another to go to the bog it was busy!!! Bridge, Pickwick!! Happy daze!

[Big Joe]

The Bees Knees and lets not forget "the astronaut"

[landhusweg]

What about the Blockade?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by landhusweg

What about the Blockade?

Yep if yeh weren't stoned when yeh went in, yeh were when yeh came out if yeh frequented the back room.

[ferret man]

Whether you had had a drink or not

[choirboy]

'Leventeen Pints used to be the Standrad in my younger days!

[ferret man]

Originally Posted by Big Joe

The Bees Knees and lets not forget "the astronaut"

Or the Derby

[ferret man]

Old House At Home

[choirboy]

The Wellington in Abbey Street!

[Ryewolf90]

Giro Day at any of the pubs on the Barbary Coast (County, Legs of Man, Merchants, Wheatsheaf, Dun Horse, Old Bank, Sun, Swan, Lower Sun) were always busy in the late 70's

[ferret man]

Remember going in the Sun in late 60s with a couple of mates, we got talking to an elderly gent he past his baccy tin over asking if anyone wanted rollup one of the lads said yes and took the tin, on the lid was a hammered out Indians head with a full head dress it must have taken quite a while and plenty of patience to do this, when he opened it and took out the papers across the packet were the words H.M.Prisons. The guy was quite a character he had nowt but was willing to share what little he did have.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by ferret man

Old House At Home

The landlord "Hughie" was a complete bum, he banned me for bringing a vinegar pint back to the bar.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by ferret man

Remember going in the Sun in late 60s with a couple of mates, we got talking to an elderly gent he past his baccy tin over asking if anyone wanted rollup one of the lads said yes and took the tin, on the lid was a hammered out Indians head with a full head dress it must have taken quite a while and plenty of patience to do this, when he opened it and took out the papers across the packet were the words H.M.Prisons. The guy was quite a character he had nowt but was willing to share what little he did have.

we always popped in yon back then when down that way was a good boozer no doubt at all.

[john conway]

The Black Abby was my pub. In 1965 I had my 21st there and it was also the meeting place for the Accrington Caving Club, later to become the Northern Exploration Group. The Accy lads joined with a breakaway group of cavers from the Burnley Caving Club and some from the Northern Speleological Group, based around Blackburn. We move our meeting place/pubs several times to Padiham and Burnley before getting a Caving Hostel in Ingleton around 1965. I moved up to Ingleton in the Dales just after I got married around 1974/75 and still live there.

[taddy]

Three mates of mine, two sadly now departed used to frequent the Abbey during the 60s and 70s, Alan Crawshaw, Fred Firth and Kees Fillipinni, maybe you knew them.