Your favorite pub as a teenager ??

[Joanl]

Mailcoach....Rotherham. I was 18 and having my first proper drink....well, Babycham anyway.

[fastjan]

Tankard and griffin at ecclesfield. I used to go in both most nights after i had left school and started work in 1974 when i was 16, and whitbread Trophy was 12 pence a pint. oh for a time machine.

 

which one was tankard then? i remember the griffin

[shanes teeth]

Sportsman lodge moor,1973-75,rising sun,nethergreen same time.Albert,Minerva,Penthouse and Marquis of granby,last two not really pubs but drinking haunts just the same.

 

You must have been at the same Donkey Derby discos as me then! Thatt's where I first met the girl who would,seven years later,become Mrs Shanes Teeth!

[sycamore66j]

which one was tankard then? i remember the griffin

 

Hi fastjan, most people now call it The stocks, but to some of us it will

always be the tankard. different era, different memory's i suppose. If you stand outdide the griffin The white bear is/was straight across and the tankard is over to the left.

[jaffa1]

Meet in the Golden Ball, then the tour of West Street.The Red Lion,Saddle,West Street,Hallamshire and The Raven.This was back in 1963-65.

 

Remember Lol behind the bar. My boyfriend used to tell me they called him Lol

because he had to lol .. onto the bar because he had a wooden leg.

I found out later that this was all true, they did call him Lol and he did have a wooden leg.

Do you remember the gym they had upstairs, weight lifting etc.

[jaffa1]

Why are so many posters going on about these suburban pubs, when there were so many little gems in the city centre e.g. The Barleycorn, The Sportsman, Nell 's Bar, The Albert, The Old Blue Bell, The Minerva.........and many, many others........all centres of culture and platonic friendships ! Many 's the night I 've spent in the Old Blue Bell, with half a shandy, discussing Wittgenstein or Western Philosphy.

My favourite though was ' The Old Blue Bell '. It was frequented by all and sundry------especially sundry ! I once took my elderly mother in from about 11 a.m -11 . 30 and she said it was " a nice place ". I 'm glad she didn 't see it at 2.30 p.m. though ! Happy Days ! [ Purple Hearts or ' Blues ' about 5 old pence each ! ------everybody was happy ! ]

 

I remember the Minerva and the Albert but I'm trying to recall the pub where Joe Cocker used to sing before he became famous, was it the Minerva?

[scallyboy]

started boozing at school and it was the psalter tavern's fault for crashing my 50cc power bike .

[cinderellaro]

grennel mower,magpie lowedges,batemoor and jordanthorpe pubs,woodseats hotel,big tree and chantry.good days 1970-80

 

The Magpie has shut down now. It is going to be an Indian Restaurant soon. I only went in there the past half a year or so, but I became fond of it, had some laughs in there and some not so good times :-( but it is still a shame. Miss the Woodseats hotel too. The Mower is a good pub too, and some great memories in there. The only pub you mentioned I havent been in is the Jordanthorpe. Just wait till all the pubs on your list have turned into Restaurants, we will have no where to go lol :-)

[swallgirl]

golden ball on townhead street. the museum on orchard street,

[crookesey]

The Marples, Old Blue Bell, the Stonehouse and the Museum

 

The old blue bell was known as the "play school" or the Nursery, because so many of us under-age drinkers used to use it.

 

I'm teetotal now.

 

I recall using the original pub, it must have been circa 200 years old, with really low ceilings that was very handy, me being 6 x 3.