WHU(Exeter)
5:46 Fri Jan 12
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Aged 11 a few of us took advantage of the school dinner ladies being on strike, to plough through an elder brother's home brew from one house, and a bottle of vodka from anothers.
Going back into school straight after, the first thing after brewak was P.E. and PIRATES.
What could possibly go wrong. To this day I don't know how we were detected.
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easthammer
4:45 Fri Jan 12
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, mo
I also used to drink in the Fiddlers but in the mid-'60s. Not regularly but often enough to know to step carefully, as you say Sunday lunchtimes could be eye-opening!
The pub I frequented most back then was the Toll Gate in Chadwell
Heath at the junction of Whalebone Lane and London Road. Lunchtime you would often find West Ham players in there after training. (Training ground just down the London Rd) Particularly on Fridays! Different times eh!
Not that I was in there much at lunchtime, but it was the evening meeting point before heading out to more exotic venues often in the Eastend e.g. Queens Hackney Rd and Green Gate Bethnal Green Rd. Drink driving wasn't a consideration -although the designated drivers probably kept to only three or four pints! One of our group married the Toll Gate's owner's daughter.
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BRANDED
2:47 Fri Jan 12
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I was at Uni at City University on the Goswell Rd. Pubs were a it grim.
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Helmut Shown
2:39 Fri Jan 12
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Half a pint of brown costing eleven pence ha'penny in the Lady Owen Arms in Goswell Road. I was still at school at the time just up the road.
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2:26 Fri Jan 12
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MO 1.59, the Fiddlers and Ship have long gone but the Travellers still stands.
The Robin Hood you refer to is on the corner of Becontree Avenue and Longbridge Road, or it was as there now stands Lidl store.
Once or twice on a Sunday morning I saw Johnny Byrne in the Robin Hood. He lived nearby at that time.
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Mike Oxsaw
1:59 Fri Jan 12
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, 12:01 Fri Jan 12
Yeah, drunk for a few weeks in the Fiddlers (Sunday lunchtime was particularly educational to a young lad) until we got advised that "we didn't look local enough".
Took that as a cue to leave straight away and ended up at the Robin Hood on Green Lane...not exactly the same atmosphere though.
What was the other pub between the Fiddlers and the Travellers - Ship & Anchor was it? Never looked inviting.
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Tanglefoot
1:46 Fri Jan 12
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1992 - The Walnut Tree in Maidstone. Me and my mates were 16 and thought we'd get a better chance of getting served if we just got halves. So not strictly a pint but close enough! Fosters if I recall rightly...It was the 90s!
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Aalborg Hammer
12:19 Fri Jan 12
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In the Falcon,Tadley -1971 -in the back bar as we were underage and it was either Whitbread Trophy or Tankard at 16p or 20p a pint - the pub is no more ,unfortunately - a victim of nanny state elf n safety - it was just outside the gates of Aldermaston AWE and the boffins would pop out at lunchtimes for a pint- we can't have real ale mixing with plutonium ,oh dear no
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Lee Trundle
12:14 Fri Jan 12
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The Swinley in Ascot.
Word had gone around that they accepted your National Insurance Card as ID so for a couple of weeks it was rammed full of 16 year old kids drinking. I think the old bill then had a word in their ear and it all came to an end.
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boleyn8420
12:11 Fri Jan 12
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Streatham Ice Rink. 1971. Some crap lager or Watneys Red Barrel even, jesus, and cost was, I think, 55p. My happy skinhead days following West Ham everywhere, we actually played attractive football occasionally as well.
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12:01 Fri Jan 12
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MO 7.04, were you ever brave enough to go to the Merry Fiddlers? The Three travellers was a poor substitute imho.
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Oh dear
11:48 Fri Jan 12
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The first paid over the bar pint?
I was 15, a Sunday morning in1978, in The Hackney Volunteers Social Club, Lower Clapton Road
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frank marker
8:24 Fri Jan 12
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Pint of bitter, The Railway Tavern Gravesend, at the age of 13 (just) after being to a gig in London with two mates. It was run by asians and my asian mate Jasbir said he could get us in. Other mate who looked the oldest went to the bar and ordered "a pint of beer please", still got served.
First one I paid for, at The Marker's Retreat also in Gravesend. Pint of bitter was nineteen new pence. You could sit in the corner of the saloon bar as long as you didn't act up. Used that pub from then on before many a school disco.
Kids these days have it much harder getting served.
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Mike Oxsaw
7:04 Fri Jan 12
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Light & Bitter - Tollgate, Chadwell Heath, under the supervision of my father at some family celebration. Stood there at the bar in a manner I felt showed me as proper grown up (twat).
Hated the beer but (felt I) had to drink it to get my first set of adult stripes.
Didn't try it again until well past 16. Three Travellers - Becontree Heath for that one.
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Hello Mrs. Jones
4:21 Fri Jan 12
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A few light and bitters on this thread because you woukd get almost a pint of bitter and a bottle of light ale. All for less than 2 bob
Happy glorious days
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easthammer
3:52 Fri Jan 12
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My first pint was probably at a party in Ronnie White's house in Burges Rd East Ham aged about 14. In 1961. Beer bought from the off-licence nearby
The same year I bought my first pint of Light & Bitter in The Roding Hotel East Ham at about 2/- (10p). After getting served by the barmaid, I along with my mates were told to drink up and leave once the owner spotted us.
A couple of years later you could still get a pint of Mild for 1/6d (7.5p)
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Mickey Rat
3:23 Fri Jan 12
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A pint of mild in the Earl of Beaconsfield 11p around 1971 when I was 14, landlords weren't too fussy then as long as you didn't cause any trouble, it tasted pretty horrible and rumour was all the slops from the slop traye used to go into it so I moved on to light and bitter as you normally got a bit more than a pint!
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven.”
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Alfs
3:22 Fri Jan 12
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Must have been about 14. We all put a tie on so we looked 18 (the fucking numpties, we were).
I had 2 pints of bitter, staggered home through the back alleys, throwing up as I went. Should have packed it in right then.
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fraser
12:59 Fri Jan 12
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Chequers Barkingside maybe..82 maybe....
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solidbond
12:31 Fri Jan 12
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Light & John Bull, Mawney Arms Romford 1982.
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Wils
12:31 Fri Jan 12
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The Bull in Barking. 1987. aged 14.
Although not quite sure it was my first pint. But it was definitely the first time I went up to the bar to buy a pint.
Far too young with hindsight. My 15 year old hasn't (to my knowledge) had a pint yet.
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