Pub Crawls from your Youth

[RedRover45]

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 !

[RobTheRover]

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.

[jonnydog]

Emporium, Great Northern, Yates, Scruffy Murphys, Edwards, White Bear, Biscuit Billy's, Old George, Coach & Horses, Nags Heas and finish in Tut.

[ravenrover]

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

[jonnydog]

Staff of life... Still open I believe!

That's gotta be a money laundering pub!!

[Yargo]

Shocked that not everyone started round town from The Cleveland,was that just Edlington / Balby people?

[NickDRFC]

As someone who went to school in Wakefield, difficult to top the Westgate Run.

[bigbadjack]

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

[Filo]

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

[Bentley Bullet]

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?   

[Filo]

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?   

Don't know, but he was useless

[Bentley Bullet]

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!   

[RedRover45]

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

Cough cough..........Baileys

[Dagenham Rover]

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

Cough cough..........Baileys

cough cough as well

[grayx]

Salutation, archives, hallcross, kings head, horse & groom, magdelens, masons, japs wine bar then bus back to the Chase.

  Happy days.

[The Red Baron]

Salutation, archives, hallcross, kings head, horse & groom, magdelens, masons, japs wine bar then bus back to the Chase.

  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!

[RedRover45]

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.

[coventryrover]

We couldnt be arsed getting out of Thorne..unless we risked unks in Moorends

[LongbridgeMGRover]

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.

[Mike_F]

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!

[Sprotyrover]

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.

[Bentley Bullet]

Start off at Beethams (2 pints). Blue Bell (2). White Bear (2). Yorkisht (2). Nagshead (2). Sharashens shed (2)...

[knockers]

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

[ravenrover]

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

Cough cough..........Baileys

Is this what was The Penny Farthing?

[Dagenham Rover]

 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

[BobG]

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

[Dagenham Rover]

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

[BobG]

It had a lot of pubs in it too! Lol. I did the lot. On my own. Christ that was a bad night.

Bob

[Wild Rover]

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.

[RobTheRover]

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....