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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: RedRover45 on February 21, 2015, 11:19:44 am
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Teenage days round town, always in the same order circa 1978.
Start at The Yorkist, Blue Bell, Beethams, White Bear, Kings Head, Hallcross, Regents, Archives, Salutation, finish in Saracens. Then finished with a kebab before running for last 11pm bus. Or alternatively, another pint in Saracens, then Main Line and stagger home at 2am over North Bridge.
Those were the nights. Youngsters today, pah !
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Always started and ended in Camelots. In between, The White Bear, AD43, Scruffy Murphy's, The King's Head, Nelsons, Oscars, The Nags Head, The Garden, The Gatehouse, The Woolpack, Bacchus, and then down to Seventh Heaven til 2am.
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Emporium, Great Northern, Yates, Scruffy Murphys, Edwards, White Bear, Biscuit Billy's, Old George, Coach & Horses, Nags Heas and finish in Tut.
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Friday/Saturday nights Out of Arndale straight into Nags Head, Elephant, Yorkist downstairs of course you weren't allowed upstairs unless you had a tie on, Staff of Life, Turf Tavern, White Bear then spend majority of evening in Silver Link, Blue Bell Beethams leg it for last bus to Woodlands, failing that regularly, Outlook and a long walk home
Other nights straight up to Silver Link all night
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Staff of life... Still open I believe!
That's gotta be a money laundering pub!!
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Shocked that not everyone started round town from The Cleveland,was that just Edlington / Balby people?
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As someone who went to school in Wakefield, difficult to top the Westgate Run.
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Tut, empourium, great northern, nelsons, Yates, silks, coaches, red lion, woolpack, gallery, living stones, biscuits, edwards, karisma, every Thursday Friday Saturday no wonder I'm skint
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Always started and ended in Camelots. In between, The White Bear, AD43, Scruffy Murphy's, The King's Head, Nelsons, Oscars, The Nags Head, The Garden, The Gatehouse, The Woolpack, Bacchus, and then down to Seventh Heaven til 2am.
Romeo and Juliets for us slightly older folk :)
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Always started and ended in Camelots. In between, The White Bear, AD43, Scruffy Murphy's, The King's Head, Nelsons, Oscars, The Nags Head, The Garden, The Gatehouse, The Woolpack, Bacchus, and then down to Seventh Heaven til 2am.
Romeo and Juliets for us slightly older folk :)
Question; Who was the first L.A.S.E.R. operator at Camelots in the early 80's? :whistle:
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Always started and ended in Camelots. In between, The White Bear, AD43, Scruffy Murphy's, The King's Head, Nelsons, Oscars, The Nags Head, The Garden, The Gatehouse, The Woolpack, Bacchus, and then down to Seventh Heaven til 2am.
Romeo and Juliets for us slightly older folk :)
Question; Who was the first L.A.S.E.R. operator at Camelots in the early 80's? :whistle:
Don't know, but he was useless :whistle: :whistle:
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Hey! His light show to Toto's 'Africa' was fantastic! And his last song choice of 'Land of hope and glory' every night during the Falklands
conflict war always received a standing ovation! :aok:
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Always started and ended in Camelots. In between, The White Bear, AD43, Scruffy Murphy's, The King's Head, Nelsons, Oscars, The Nags Head, The Garden, The Gatehouse, The Woolpack, Bacchus, and then down to Seventh Heaven til 2am. :whistle:
Romeo and Juliets for us slightly older folk :)
Cough cough..........Baileys
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Always started and ended in Camelots. In between, The White Bear, AD43, Scruffy Murphy's, The King's Head, Nelsons, Oscars, The Nags Head, The Garden, The Gatehouse, The Woolpack, Bacchus, and then down to Seventh Heaven til 2am. :whistle:
Romeo and Juliets for us slightly older folk :)
Cough cough..........Baileys
cough cough as well
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Salutation, archives, hallcross, kings head, horse & groom, magdelens, masons, japs wine bar then bus back to the Chase.
:laugh: Happy days.
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Salutation, archives, hallcross, kings head, horse & groom, magdelens, masons, japs wine bar then bus back to the Chase.
:laugh: Happy days.
A Hatfield lad, eh? Most of my pub crawls involved the Chase and the Blue Bell as well as the Abbey, now sadly gone.
We never went in the Ingram as all our dads drank in there!
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I used to go to the Abbey every Thursday for the Heavy Rock night and get the last train back into town. That must be 30+ years ago. Quite a shock when I realised just recently it had been flattened.
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We couldnt be arsed getting out of Thorne..unless we risked unks in Moorends
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A quickie in the Park Hotel, just a few yards from our house on Belle Vue, then up CarrHouse Rd to the 'Bermuda Triangle': the Sidings, the Vine and the Fitz. Sometimes we would take in the Corporation Brewery Taps or the Leopard.
Althoug in an unfashionble part of town, the Sidings used to be heaving for a few years with good music and 'scenery'.
But our most famous night out centred around the Leopard, which was a bit basic with lino floors.
Anyway, on his way for a wee, one of my mates threw up on the floor, but didnt mention it.
Another mate went for a slash a few minutes later and slipped in it, and as he did so he farted and accidentally followed through.
Todays youth with their iphones, twitter and the like just dont know how to make their own entertainment like we did.
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When I started going into town aged 15 in 1996 (Euro '96 on the big screens in the White Bear and Emporium) our regular circuit was:
- Emporium: once we were inside we didn't need to worry about the quality of our fake I.D. as we could stick a quid in the "lucky dip" bottle machine instead of heading to the bar. If a bottle of Mac & Ernie's alcoholic cola dropped out it was jackpot time. Unlucky booby prizes included Pernod Hex (turned your shit bright green), Bacardi Zafra (bloody foul) and worst of all, H2O alcoholic water which was basically nail varnish remover!
- Yates's: on a Saturday night it was the place to buy a ticket to Club Wow for six quid including bus travel.
- Edwards: The height of sophistication back then!
- AD43: a bit cheaper than Edwards
- Visage/Karisma/Club Wow depending on the day of the week. Sweaty night at Karisma on Tuesday was a happy hunting ground for girls with lots of black eye make-up and was therefore my favourite. Thursday and Friday it was off to Visage to drink Metz and V2. Many a Friday morning was spent still hammered from the night before in Danum 6th form common room. Saturdays were often spent on the Club Wow bus. Always fun on the way there but it was a fine art to time departure from the club to get to KFC, eat up and arrive back at the bus stop without having to spend twenty minutes freezing to death waiting for the return bus. I also had the dubious pleasure of being "wedgied" so forcefully that my lucky Calvin Kkein boxers wee ripped clean off one night on that journey back to Donny!
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Nags head,Yorkist,kings head,white bear,biscuit billy,s,Olg George. Beethams downstairs in rock bar,bus home
Sometimes we had a vote and did the Old Castle,Woolpack Queens and Masons.
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Start off at Beethams (2 pints). Blue Bell (2). White Bear (2). Yorkisht (2). Nagshead (2). Sharashens shed (2)...
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At one point it was
Hallcross
Archives
Salutation
Camalots
Then back to the hall cross
We would venture down to the market as well to the castle, masons and beethams
Weekends used to start on Thursday evenings
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Always started and ended in Camelots. In between, The White Bear, AD43, Scruffy Murphy's, The King's Head, Nelsons, Oscars, The Nags Head, The Garden, The Gatehouse, The Woolpack, Bacchus, and then down to Seventh Heaven til 2am. :whistle:
Romeo and Juliets for us slightly older folk :)
Cough cough..........Baileys
Is this what was The Penny Farthing?
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Two we used to do in the late 70's early 80's. The Brompton Gallop no doubt none (perhaps the odd one) of you know this one as its between Gillingham and Chatham a roughly circular route consisting of 6 pubs in about half a mile, the idea being you started at 7.00pm when they opened and just continued going round and round until you basically fell over or they shut, starting in the Army and Navy, The Royal Marine, The Golden Lion, The Two Sawyers, King George V and The Canon. and many a good scrap was had with the Navy on the way round. I know 2 definitely and possibly 3 or even 4 of them have shut down now.
The other one started at Rochester Bridge and then every pub the length of Rochester High Street to the end of Chatham High Street the High Streets were just a continuation of each other a lot of pubs in the late 70's and early 80's on that run
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I once got massively pissed off after a girlfriend gave me the old heave ho. ended up in Marylebone High Street. I started at one end, and had a drink in every single pub on both sides of the road until I got to the other end. To this day I have no idea how I spent the night. All I know is I woke up with a stinking head laid on the pavement in some side street. Life....
BobG
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I once got massively pissed off after a girlfriend gave me the old heave ho. ended up in Marylebone High Street. I started at one end, and had a drink in every single pub on both sides of the road until I got to the other end. To this day I have no idea how I spent the night. All I know is I woke up with a stinking head laid on the pavement in some side street. Life....
BobG
Marylebone High St used to be sort of quaint
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It had a lot of pubs in it too! Lol. I did the lot. On my own. Christ that was a bad night.
Bob
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Hare and Hounds and Anchor ( Fishlake ), Welfare and George ( Stainforth ), Broadway and Flarepath, Acorn and Bay Horse ( Armthorpe) Silver Link and .................Home. Too pissed for anywhere else.
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Weekends used to start on Thursday evenings
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Spot on. Thursday night out, Friday night out, Saturday night out, Sunday night out. Only Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to get through then it was the weekend again! Friday mornings were always a complete write off, and I dreaded getting asked to work overtime on Saturday mornings....
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used to be a good run into town from balby from winning post into town
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In my early twenties I used to work for a company based in Andover and would spend Monday and Tuesday in the office. That meant Monday nights stopping out with a few colleagues made the weekend even longer. Tuesdays were horrendous!
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When i left Donny the first time to go to Uni at Liverpool, the definitive student pub crawl was to go the length of Smithdown Road, some 11 pubs from the campus in the city to the location of the halls of residence. And if you were a real student you did this three legged, tied to someone else, and in those days all this was paid for by the taxpayer as we had student grants not loans!
Of those pubs perhaps three remained when i went there last year.
However if you wished to dissociate yourself from silly, immature middle class students then it had to be down the docks where real men went, and in no circumstances would you wear a University scarf!! Amidst the dereliction and demolition, a few pubs survived, such as the Dukes Crown with its famous wild west murals and Burtonwood Bitter rather than the usual Higsons.
You had to be very careful in Liverpool in the late 70s and on two occasions i ended up in hospital thanks tovthe wonderful wit and humour of those Scouse scallies. On one occasion i was attacked in a fish and chip shop, and everyone thought it amusing that i came out 'battered'.
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My Grandad used to work for Higsons. He was a mild and very even tempered gentleman. Then again, he was also teetotal so I spose he missed out on Higsons baleful influence! Incidentally Longbridge, my Mum was born and raised quite close to Dock Road..... She even taught in a school on that very road for a little while before my dad rescued her and brought her over into the light.
Cheers
BobG
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The 'nantwich road' run once a term was great when I was at uni in crewe! Donny tended to start in park hotel, before camelots, high/main street, market place, odd one or two on silver street before seventh heaven (later karisma) or ritzy (later visage) I think! Tended to be out with nightporter and another old poster on here (al_drfc) we were pretty easy going really the route barely changed but the pubs did - depended how we felt!
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I lived in Pontefract during the 80's and people talked about going round the marketplace, I think it holds the record for the number of pubs in a particular "small area" sadly I never managed this particular pub crawl.
A friend of mine Andy Poole was a bobby in Pontefract and often worked plain clothes around the market square on market day. inevitably a fight would breake out in the ABA (Ancient Borough Arms not Amateur Boxing Association though it could be!)
On one occasion he got the call to attend the fighting and being young and inexperienced he promptly marched in waving his warrant card and shouting Police. The fighting immediately stopped and a silence ensued . He felt very proud of himself until the 1st stool was thrown at him and he became the target for the fighters he beat a very hasty retreat. He later learned that the experienced officers always waited around the corner until the fighting had died down before entering the pub.
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1st pint in white bear, second kings head and then third in Archives. Had to go home after that pissed up, mates said I was a lightweight.
They don't call me a lightweight anymore, I can do five pints now.
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I lived in Pontefract during the 80's and people talked about going round the marketplace, I think it holds the record for the number of pubs in a particular "small area" sadly I never managed this particular pub crawl.
A friend of mine Andy Poole was a bobby in Pontefract and often worked plain clothes around the market square on market day. inevitably a fight would breake out in the ABA (Ancient Borough Arms not Amateur Boxing Association though it could be!)
On one occasion he got the call to attend the fighting and being young and inexperienced he promptly marched in waving his warrant card and shouting Police. The fighting immediately stopped and a silence ensued . He felt very proud of himself until the 1st stool was thrown at him and he became the target for the fighters he beat a very hasty retreat. He later learned that the experienced officers always waited around the corner until the fighting had died down before entering the pub.
The reputation of "lovely" places like the ABA kept me and my mates out of Pontefract. Wakefield was a safer option, although we could never quite work out where the Westgate Run started and ended!
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I lived in Pontefract during the 80's and people talked about going round the marketplace, I think it holds the record for the number of pubs in a particular "small area" sadly I never managed this particular pub crawl.
A friend of mine Andy Poole was a bobby in Pontefract and often worked plain clothes around the market square on market day. inevitably a fight would breake out in the ABA (Ancient Borough Arms not Amateur Boxing Association though it could be!)
On one occasion he got the call to attend the fighting and being young and inexperienced he promptly marched in waving his warrant card and shouting Police. The fighting immediately stopped and a silence ensued . He felt very proud of himself until the 1st stool was thrown at him and he became the target for the fighters he beat a very hasty retreat. He later learned that the experienced officers always waited around the corner until the fighting had died down before entering the pub.
Had a few good nights in Ponte , Usually ending up in the mucky duck ( white Swan really) But that was in the early 70's.
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Tut n Shive, Joplin’s, Nags Head, Snooker Club above Burtons (lights on 6 ‘arry), the Garden, the woolpack, the Gallery, Biscuit Billy’s, the White Bear, then Seventh Heaven or Park Lane if I fancied getting the knock back from a more ‘mature’ member of the opposite sex.
Looking at that list, I genuinely have no idea at all how I managed to go out supping and get up for work the next day before doing it all again that night!
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Tut n Shive, Joplin’s, Nags Head, Snooker Club above Burtons (lights on 6 ‘arry), the Garden, the woolpack, the Gallery, Biscuit Billy’s, the White Bear, then Seventh Heaven or Park Lane if I fancied getting the knock back from a more ‘mature’ member of the opposite sex.
Looking at that list, I genuinely have no idea at all how I managed to go out supping and get up for work the next day before doing it all again that night!
Tut n Shive and Joplins?
Was time travel a regular part of your aturday nights out? ;)
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Tut n Shive, Joplin’s, Nags Head, Snooker Club above Burtons (lights on 6 ‘arry), the Garden, the woolpack, the Gallery, Biscuit Billy’s, the White Bear, then Seventh Heaven or Park Lane if I fancied getting the knock back from a more ‘mature’ member of the opposite sex.
Looking at that list, I genuinely have no idea at all how I managed to go out supping and get up for work the next day before doing it all again that night!
Tut n Shive and Joplins?
Was time travel a regular part of your aturday nights out? ;)
😂 oh, wasn’t Joplin’s that pub across the road from McDonald’s and the Tut around the corner? I admit it’s all a little hazy!
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All that walking? A waste of good drinking time! :lol:
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Tut n Shive, Joplin’s, Nags Head, Snooker Club above Burtons (lights on 6 ‘arry), the Garden, the woolpack, the Gallery, Biscuit Billy’s, the White Bear, then Seventh Heaven or Park Lane if I fancied getting the knock back from a more ‘mature’ member of the opposite sex.
Looking at that list, I genuinely have no idea at all how I managed to go out supping and get up for work the next day before doing it all again that night!
Tut n Shive and Joplins?
Was time travel a regular part of your aturday nights out? ;)
😂 oh, wasn’t Joplin’s that pub across the road from McDonald’s and the Tut around the corner? I admit it’s all a little hazy!
I think that was the Bull's Head. Joplin's became the Tut & Shive later on.
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Wasnt the Tut call the Spread Eagle? Long time ago and the brain is foggy!
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Harlequin, Corner Pin , Windmill , Red Bear , Churchills , White Hart , Green Dragon (earlier Canal Tavern till landlord changed) Miners welfare for 2 Blastaway, Back of Uncle Arthurs / White Hart
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Harlequin, Corner Pin , Windmill , Red Bear , Churchills , White Hart , Green Dragon (earlier Canal Tavern till landlord changed) Miners welfare for 2 Blastaway, Back of Uncle Arthurs / White Hart
Sad how many of these have disappeared even in the last decade.
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Even along Balby Road there’s a few gone
By the way I used to hate the sound of the whistle for last bus to Balby when you were nearly there but not near enough to run for it
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Start off at Beethams (2 pints). Blue Bell (2). White Bear (2). Yorkisht (2). Nagshead (2). Sharashens shed (2)...
I thought you would have started at Caesars Palace on to Hadrians Arms on to Danecaster Meadery finishing in the Three Chariot Wheels and Roman Ridge of course
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I heard Donnywolf used to drink Theakstone's Young Peculiar in his favourite pub The New Volunteer when he was a youngster.
He used to play darts with Dick Turpin.
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Does this hold the record for the oldest resurrected thread?
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Does this hold the record for the oldest resurrected thread?
Probably, I was only about 19 when it first appeared!
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Did they even have electricity when you were 19? ;)
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No, we were still waiting for someone to invent it. It was a nightmare watching Telly in the dark.
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Harlequin, Corner Pin , Windmill , Red Bear , Churchills , White Hart , Green Dragon (earlier Canal Tavern till landlord changed) Miners welfare for 2 Blastaway, Back of Uncle Arthurs / White Hart
Sad how many of these have disappeared even in the last decade.
to be fair weve only lost 2 off that list Welfare and the Corner pin , and Thorne can consider itself very lucky that the Corner Pin building was renovated as well as it was
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Harlequin, Corner Pin , Windmill , Red Bear , Churchills , White Hart , Green Dragon (earlier Canal Tavern till landlord changed) Miners welfare for 2 Blastaway, Back of Uncle Arthurs / White Hart
Sad how many of these have disappeared even in the last decade.
to be fair weve only lost 2 off that list Welfare and the Corner pin , and Thorne can consider itself very lucky that the Corner Pin building was renovated as well as it was
Uncle Arthurs is now housing. Few others in Thorne have gone the same way not so long back as well.
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Wasnt the Tut call the Spread Eagle? Long time ago and the brain is foggy!
Yes, it was Darren.
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Harlequin, Corner Pin , Windmill , Red Bear , Churchills , White Hart , Green Dragon (earlier Canal Tavern till landlord changed) Miners welfare for 2 Blastaway, Back of Uncle Arthurs / White Hart
Sad how many of these have disappeared even in the last decade.
to be fair weve only lost 2 off that list Welfare and the Corner pin , and Thorne can consider itself very lucky that the Corner Pin building was renovated as well as it was
Uncle Arthurs is now housing. Few others in Thorne have gone the same way not so long back as well.
Lots of Houses on Bowling Greens etc that were behind Uncs but its still a goer as a Pub
Winning Post however has been converted to Flats and other for Business accommodation / Youth Club type property (I think)
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Harlequin, Corner Pin , Windmill , Red Bear , Churchills , White Hart , Green Dragon (earlier Canal Tavern till landlord changed) Miners welfare for 2 Blastaway, Back of Uncle Arthurs / White Hart
Sad how many of these have disappeared even in the last decade.
to be fair weve only lost 2 off that list Welfare and the Corner pin , and Thorne can consider itself very lucky that the Corner Pin building was renovated as well as it was
Uncle Arthurs is now housing. Few others in Thorne have gone the same way not so long back as well.
Lots of Houses on Bowling Greens etc that were behind Uncs but its still a goer as a Pub
Winning Post however has been converted to Flats and other for Business accommodation / Youth Club type property (I think)
Is it? been a while since I've been past to look tbf, I know the guy that converted the part that's now flats, always made it sound like the entire thing was gone.
Wonder if it does much business these days. What was that one just over the road called that's now houses?
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It was the RAOB - (Buffs) - then remaned The Buffalo when it converted to a Pub
Legion Club still going but Welfare of course long gone
Winner long gone - and Dutchmans Arms also closed without really getting going. Poor bloke spent YEARS trying for Planning permission and when they finally let him the bubble had burst !
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Back room of uncs is a sports bar now, loads of pool and dart boards, has competitions in it, fairly successful apparently