Your first pint

[Leonard Hatred]

"Golden Grove, Chertsey. 1986. Hofmeister. 96p"

[1964]

"Pint of Bitter 1s 9d, Cumberland Arms, 1965."

[Dick Shaftsbury]

"The Drill, Romford. Or the Spencers Arms, Ardleigh Green. Around 1995"

[Briano]

"Rio The Fiddlers was the 1st pub we could get served , Light n bitter. We used to play for money on the pool table… I remember the Jack the rippers Friday afternoon"

[Justin P]

"Carling Black Label 1988 The Ragleth Inn, Little Stretton 99p I guess? would like to think it was under a quid"

[WELL HAMMERED AGAIN]

"Bird In Hand, Chelmsford Heineken 1977 28p a pint"

[riosleftsock]

"My ex ma-in law was the head barmaid at the fiddlers, in the early 70s through to mid 80s back when they had strippers there"

[sanfrancis-co-uk]

The Rat Pit(The Royal Military)Aldershot 1986.

[rumford]

The Castle opposite The Green gate in the Barking Road. 16-17.

[RM10]

Ray was billericay a farm town in ‚Äò78 ?üòÇ

[joe royal]

"Was either Highfields caravan park in clacton or The Cauliflower in Ilford . Was 14, think Highfields was 27p, no idea on the Cauliflower but was asked to leave when I had finished. Was with a bloke called Gordon , he was taller than I was."

[marty feldman]

I'm from a family of jocks . Somewhere between 7 and 12 .

[ray winstone]

1978

[ray winstone]

"The Rising Sun, Billericay. 16 and very wet behind the ears. Lowenbrau 80p a pint, chips and curry sauce on the way home."

[GBHammer63]

What was the pub that was always referred to as the flying bottle? Was it the Henry Ford on the A13? Now Mc Donald’s

[easthammer]

"Mike Oxsaw 5:52 Fri Jan 12 As you say the car park and the car park made The Toll Gate a great meeting place. As for the White Horse in the Mid 70s although no longer living in the Chadwell Heath area, I did work in the Ford Offices directly opposite the pub, so lunchtime darts and leaving dos but not much else to drag you in. Also used to go in the Cooper's Arms and also back in my misspent youth I would occasionally venture into the Hinds Head, but like the Fiddlers only with caution particularly after someone had their ears sliced off outside. Good music venue though. One occasion (which fortunately I missed ) the group I knocked about with got caught up in a mass brawl in there. With all the glasses and bottles on the floor, it was a messy business. Mind you as I said in an earlier post (although I didn't name the pub) you could get a pint of mild in the Hinds Head for 1s6d. But like the pub it was rough."

[Mike Oxsaw]

"easthammer 4:45 Fri Jan 12 The Tollgate was my parent's local virtually from the day they moved to Chadwell Heath in 1956. By the time I was deemed old enough to enter, they drank in the lounge behind the saloon bar, which was where I lost my beer virginity. I understand it has been redesigned now with the public and saloon bars swapping places. The car park seemed popular at all hours with patrons of the cafe just across Whalebone Lane at the lights... My neighbour with whom I attended most home games used to drink in the White Horse, further down the High Road, which was always West Ham as long as I could remember. Tollgate had real ale (and Worthington's White Shield) but I can't recall anything other than keg beer at the White Horse (back in the '70s)."

[WHU(Exeter)]

"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."

[WHU(Exeter)]

"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."

[easthammer]

", 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."

[BRANDED]

I was at Uni at City University on the Goswell Rd. Pubs were a it grim.

[Helmut Shown]

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.

[,]

"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."

[Mike Oxsaw]

", 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."

[Tanglefoot]

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!

[Aalborg Hammer]

"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"